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Then And Now: What 100 Years Of Change Looks Like, In One Infographic
As we rapidly approach the 100 year anniversary of the Federal Reserve (signed into law on December 23, 1913) and the 16th amendment (ushering in that IRS favorite - the income tax) a question arises: what was life like a century ago? Conveniently, the following infographic breaks down some of the main ways in which life has changed in the past 100 years: from life expectancy, to marriage, education, employment, wages, entertainment, sport, and shopping (we finally find a time when JCPenney was actually popular), all the key ways in which the world and life in the US has changed in the past century are mapped out.
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"1913: No deodorant, toilet paper, air conditioning, antibiotics, novocaine..."
1913: No crack, rap, meth, abortion factories, or global warrentless surveilance. Freedom of religion rather than freedom from religion. The right to bear arms was still in the bill of rights rather than a justification for DHS buying a billion rounds of jacketed hollow points a year.
Forward!
There was a lot of addiction back then. It was to patent medicines (which contained alcohol, opium, morphine, cocaine, and cannabis), and other stuff that doctors would briefly think was non-addictive, and prescribe to their patients who are were in agonizing pain. Then they'd get all their patients addicted. And then they'd realize that they'd addicted their patients. But it was too late. It was horrible. The rich ones would go to sanatoriums to get over their addiction, but it wouldn't work. The poor ones would end up dead in alleyways. The middle class ones would be a humiliating burden on their families, and die young.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper
TP has been around for hundreds of years as has soap.
Very few spent good money on it though.
I'm not kidding. this is true. about 100 years ago, in japan, they used to have a one inch thick rope tied to both sides of the river hanging a foot below the water line in the river. and they used to ride it after.
In the 50's, I remember people used fans to keep cool in the summer. The better off class had evaporative "swamp boxes." The "rich" American Airlines pilot up the street had central air conditioning (the only actual air conditioning in the neighborhood.) People took it easy in the heat of the day, drank lots of iced tea, kids played furiously outside and miraculously no one died of the heat. Hot? Go to the movies or do your shopping during the worst part of the day's heat (remember "it's 20 degrees cooler inside" signs?.)
Now, if the temp gets above 77, people wilt in misery.
Nation of pussies.
They still make swamp coolers. We have one. They work very well in dry climates. Much cheaper to run than an air conditioner.
I think (along with fewer processed carbs) it helps explain why people were thinner back thin; when it's that hot you just don't want to eat.
High fructose corn syrup and MSG, along with it's other names like autolyzed yeast extract, and hydrolyzed soy protein, causes obesity and lethargy.
Ja, all that iced tea explains the obesity and diabetes (metabolic syndrome).
Yeah, Bratwurst, potatoes & beer is much better on the metabolism.
We eat grits & fried chicken too, we're not much on the Zyklon B though ;-)
Ha ha ha you remind me of an interview I read by a woman who worked in settlement houses (social services) in that era. She said they did a lot of good work but could not convince the immigrant housewives to buy lard, white flour and potatoes in place of olive oil, macaroni, tomato sauce, garlic, fresh fruit and vegetables even though they were cheaper and offered more calories per dollar spent.
I still use only a fan to keep cool (air conditioned air makes me sick). ..and in the winter, I just throw on an extra shirt or a sweather. When people drop dead during heat waves these days I can't help but think that heat waves around 1913 did not cause nearly as many deaths as they do now...
jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2013/06/physic…
The biggest change has been that then over 40% of the population lived on farms and owned arable land - to less than 1.9% of the population now who have land they could grow food on - or the knowledge to do so.
You don't need land, you can garden in 5 gallon plastic buckets.
That way, the rabbits don't eat all your lettuce.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmRIWHmAXm0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWODupYEMDI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r8SE4gxYlg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfjEC9Wj7s0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epwqVwoqH7Q
I fucking live in the wrong age.
I think if we zerohedgers are honest with ourselves we'll admit it. Our basic problem is that we were born into an era in which we don't belong.
Man, I just turned 27, but I've known this for well over a decade now.
HURRY!!! EVERYBODY TO THE.... TIME MACHINE!!
Not exactly. Our problem is that we once really believed that things like Oligarchy, Feudalism and Facism were relics of the past..or , at least, they couldn't happen here. Turns out we were wrong so now we're pissed..including at ourselves for being so naive.
>> I fucking live in the wrong age.
I honestly can't think of a time frame I'd rather have shot my wad in. I was born in the mid 50s. I envy and respect my grandfather, born in 1890, but I really wouldn't want to have to have dealt with his hardships. Anything from tooth aches to heart attacks to infectious disease. I hate our over population and the pollution and the general disaster humans have been for other living creatures on this planet, but my personal space has been pretty cush. A very small fraction of the humans to have lived have had anything like the run I've had, and I'm just a low end nobody by today's gluttonous consumption values.
And I sure wouldn't want to be born today, or anytime I can imagine in the future. I really think we are living in the zenith of human kind and sitting in front row seats to watch the beginning of our slide back into a balance with natural forces. And, as fascinating as nature is, it is brutal.
My grandfather was born in the early 20th century, got a government job, didn't get sent over for WWII, retired in his forties and chilled in Vegas with his pension until he finally passed away in his nineties. He was one of the happiest guys I ever knew til the day he died; never a care in the world.
Now here I am, just a century later, watching my country being intentionally destroyed by my own traitorous government--economically, morally, and most importantly demographically--with all likelihood looking like it's all going to hit the fan in my lifetime.
All I tell myself is that it could be worse--I could have been living during the Mongol invasions or something.
"in his forties and chilled in Vegas with his *govt* pension until he finally passed away in his nineties" = part of the problem
If you were born between 1945 & 1960 (in the U.S. or UK)..then yeah, best deal overall deal in the history of humanity. But after that...down hill trend...and it keeps picking up momentum every year.
"I think about closing the door
and lately I think of it more.
I'm living well out of my time,
I feel like I'm losing my mind."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAQfhZauTLs
RIP Ronnie. He knows how you feel.
You might like this one too
http://compare.ebay.com/like/140853441954?var=lv<yp=AllFixedPriceItemT...
bwahahah
iHurled.
Next time choose wiser....
The past is gone. The future is like a blank sheet of paper, waiting to be written on.
The only time that's real, is now.
We are the ones that we have been waiting for, so lets turn this garbage truck around and make our country great again.
Kind of quaint that two of the "most powerful" corporations one had to worry about made paint and soup. Even GE probably hadn't turned the Hudson River toxic yet.
Those nuclear reactors in Fuki had not been built yet by GE either.
Look for life expectancy rates to retrace their historic average once Obamacare kicks in. Drone deaths, disappearance OPS, and starvation should help round things off............
Yeah, but even when average life expectancy declines to historical rate, the "official" age will still be in the 80's so that you can't collect Soc Sec until you are 75. ...kind of like "offical" CPI being less than 2%
I think Viagra was the best invention in the last 100 years but that's just my opinion.
I take one every night, keeps me from rolling out of bed.
>> I take one every night,
I take half of one every morning so I don't piss on my shoes.
I take anti-viagra
I guess you think that wasn't hard to decide on!
Amen Munk,or just alot of Yohimbe.
Ginseng.
Get your health and diet right and get off the corporate poison food/pharma and you won't have need for Viagra.
Anarchy for the UK
They must mean Porkshire Hathaway.
Welfare and debt comparison stats would have been interesting.
update from turkey : police is brutally attacking passive protesters, children and elderly women are effected by the tear gas. tens of thousands of people started to march towards gezi park, istanbul even tough it's 23:33 here. i expect millions to be in the streets tomorrow.
this just in, a video showing a protester ran over by police water-cannon-car. he is stuck under the car, cries in pain while the police kicks him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dm6bQBqV7VI
someone just got shot by a rubber bullet, he is bleeding.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151486248037759&set=vb.524677758&...
effected?
sheeple are strange when your a sheeple..
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling
God were sooo fucked...
That may be true, but - so few in the population know it. Most realy do not want to know.
Right now if you go on DRUDGE,you will see a picture of another cock sucker bloated asshole named BUSH.
Life for everyone was much better when women stayed in the kitchen, gays stayed in the closet, and we had less black people.
interesting. I don't have any, how many do you
have? right, so far, there are none.
You are the average American voter
....sad
with all due respect don't be sad, think and
learn.
"...less black people."
FEWER. For God's sake, man, it's FEWER people.
LESS cheap oil. FEWER people.
I patted myself on the back for knowing nothing about this years most popular songs, and almost nothing about who sings them.
Alestorm is the only band I pay attention to.
I knew two of the 1913 songs, none of the 2013 songs.
Google 'Betty Crocker portraits' and note the similarity
I love the unemployment symbol. Hunched over an depressed on the way to work....
"we are a generation of men raised by women"
That's me leaving my apartment at 6AM to go spend 12 hours with a tyrant.
most interesting. one looks to be a
digitally rendered photograph , the other a
digitally rendered animation .
art imitating life
life imitating art
imitating art.
.
make art.
The average income was 40 ounces of gold prior to the Fed.
Not bad.
And prices should have went down by a tremendous amount due to gains in technology leading to increased productivity, not up. All of the benefits of those technological gains plus some were siphoned out of the economy by the Fed over the last 100 years.
Just imagine if prices would have been going down over the last century and not up. The amount of benefit stolen through inflation from humanity by the government / Fed duo is almost unimagineable, just so they can have the power to redistribute those resources as they please.
It would sound conspiratorial if it wasnt factual
Humanity is about to find out how factual a world fiat ponzi scheme collpasing is
The article didn't show, then and now:
Government handouts
Teen pregnancies
Suicides
Taxpayer funded student loan defaults
Freedoms usurped
Just show us the happy stuff.
Surveillance Ubiquity:
Gossipy Neighbor vs Cradle 2 Grave record of every movement, thought and DNA expression.
Sheeples stuffing their faces and watching crap in the USA
Kim Kardashian Gives Birth To Baby Girl
http://www.businessinsider.com/kim-kardashian-has-baby-2013-6
There u have it all that matters
Film at midnight on your NSA channel
Great, just what the world needs...another fat ass bimbo
It's time to embrace the horror and start dumping Gatorade on crops, cause' it's got electrolytes and 11 herbs and spices.
Welcome to the Idiocracy!
High School Graduates
12.8% / 85.4%
and yet, ironically...
confuse "loose" with "lose"
1.6% / 38.4%
know the proper definition of the word "awesome"
67.3.3% / 12.2%
understand the value of hard work
89.3% / 14.2%
I axed you not to mention that.
It none of yo Bizniz.
and "like", understand "like", what is really "like" going on "like" in the real world.
Pop Quiz. Which is more worthless?
A. Nobel Peace prize winning welfare pimp Onumbnuts
B. Federal Reserve Notes.
C. N ut S ucking A ssociation
OOps trick question, in 1913 they didn't have any of these posers.
What an absolute joke and toilet bowl this country is rapidly turning into.
Just the way they planned.
@"they".
.
Our kind of rain - Alex Mc murray
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3afF3Pc0L0
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bonus track ...
Van Morrison - Blue And Green
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wlAkhMQ5IU
Speaking of toilet bowl, in 1913 it was an outhouse, and instead of TP it was an old corncob.
I'm moving to Germany.
Just don't put your money in the Douche Bank
Is that you young Clamenza? Is this me?
http://images.wikia.com/godfather/images/4/42/Young_Clemenza.png
Europe will block Facebook and Google
(cause of PRISM)
Acording to Germany's biggest Newspaper "BILD"
http://www.mmnews.de/index.php/politik/13405-facebook-und-google-bald-in-europa-gesperrt
(german)
Payback for killing all those F'n indians. Even Putin complained about that. Well at least if you don't interbreed you'll have a pure race with which to conquer all the others. Wait a minute that doesn't work either then you'll have everyone trying to kill you. I give up unless it is against a globalist. Everybody unite against the globalists. Now there's an idea that makes sense.
So, adjusted for inflation, income is about the same today but most people didn't even graduate from high school. Forward!
and how many of those graduates in 1913, who were making comparable incomes, were saddled with a lifetime of debt before they even worked day one?
1913: 20 oz gold @ $20 per ounce = $800
2013: 20 oz gold @ $1400 per ounce = $56000
In terms of gold incomes were twice as high in 1913.
Love how they have the white chick dressed like a hooker hanging out with a darker-than-midnight chimp. Keep pounding away that message.
Why you hatin?
.
Pleeeesse take me back to 1913!
2013: women dress like whores, culture has become retarded, stupidity is awarded, and government is out of control. Great progress.
It was about 1913 that my greatgrandmother died in childbirth at age 26, having children 7 & 8 (twins). She was a Yankee girl who had had made the terrible mistake of marrying a brutal Southern army officer. Yankee men were less inclined to breed their wives to death.
It was a horrible, horrible time to be female, just because of that. Death in childbirth was *common*. Many other things were better, but if you're dead it's hard to enjoy them.
I'll never forget something my wife's OB said after a particularly difficult delivery. Something about next time you're in one of the pioneer cemetaries we have around here, pay attention to how many tombstones are for young mothers and their infants. It really is staggering how prevalent that was. Makes you appreciate a lot of what we have. But I'm betting most of these pioneers would be ashamed of the communities that bear their names..
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I guess all of the ZHers who wish they lived in 1913, are assuming that they wouldn't end up in the trenches inhaling the mustard gas in 1917.
What I miss most about the "old days" is that the countryside was beautiful then. I look at the photos of the time before the strip malls and the highways, when there were real downtowns built of marble, and picnics by wooded lakes, and feel sad that we're utterly surrounded now by UGLY machine-made crap. It's an aesthetic loss, but really ultimately a psychic one too.
Nowadays, mustard counts as a vegetable.
White genocide, up 10,000%.
Does this mean that in 2113 the worker will be exemplified by a beige tranny? What an awkward meeting room to approve the fashion one: "let's not make him too black so how about black guy who hangs out with hipsters?"
Part on education is nonsense.
Who cares about degrees?!
If you had good education in home and surroundings and became at least functional human being without any school than it is much better than creatively crippled, extremely entitled yet barking mad Ph D who has mastered bullshitology. I don't know about exactly 100 years, but from the time outright public schools went through USA analphabetism is in fact now again more common.
It only really shows that people spend way more time in shools.
Same thing about unemployment, it is quite useless without % in workforce and % working less than 1 full time job.
Nowadays, they go to college to get a high school education.
an ounce of gold will buy you a complete suit set back then as now
MISTAKE , and one of the most oft repeated mistakes in the gold community.
1oz of gold would buy a hand made SUIT OF ARMOUR, and oz of silver would pay a labourers wages for one week.
today a hand made suit of armour would cost about $6000 http://www.bytheswordinc.com/p-4001-jousting-armour-md-011.aspx
a labourer would expect a minimum $400/week today....
so when the house of cards collapses , PHYSICALLY OWNED gold and silver will revert to the mean $400 silver, $6- $10,000 gold AT TODAYS VALUES , NOT ACCOUNTING FOR IMMINENT HYPERINFLATION
Not a single person who graduated from Columbia with a poli sci major in the year Obama allegedly did remembers who he is.
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/barack-obama-the-ghost-of-columbia...
It is like a perfect storm is coming.
US Economy collapses as Obama care destroys the health system, and Obama gets kicked out of office for disgracing the US presidency and everything he enacted over the past 6-7 years as law, is thrown in to question as he was illegitimate as President.
Once heard a comment, not so long ago.....that Obama would be the last president of the United States. Sort of sent a shiver down my spine followed by a "no, could never be"....but I wonder.......The Neo Cons (National Socialists and their Banker partners) go full retard in 2001, and due to events are able to set up the super surrvelience state under the noses of the world, they need more time to put it in place but the "Republican" president is making the natives restless, so they drop in a new distraction, Obama......nothing changes, "he" carries on with the NeoCon policies as he is ordered to do.....as useful idiot in cheif, he will be unaware he is being used, and the left will cheer him on as he is "not bush".....oh, but he is you stupid fucks, he so is.......
When they (National Socialists and the Military Industrial Complex) are done with putting their plans in place, Obama can be ousted and due to the chaos at the time, martial law be brought in over the USA.......and with that, the greatest threat to tyranny the world has ever seen, would be silenced.
My Dad used to say, "In 1913 everyone said war was impossible -- the machine gun made it so".
I was born 28 years after 1913 and I dare say I have lived and seen the best it will ever be.
I was walking through a cemetery not so long ago and I was struck by the number of people born after 1945 that had died prematurely in their 40's, 50's and 60's whereas those that were born prior to that time all seemed to have at least to their mid 60's as a minimum.
Those born earlier were cannibals. My ol' grandpappy fondly recounts, "we'd crack the bones and suck out the marrow."
I still do that.
In 2013 you are now prescribed one viagra and one anti-depressant, so if you can't get a fuck you don't give a fuck.
In 1913, you actually needed a job, a downpayment and fairly good credit to buy a house.
Or you could just rent a house for $5 - $10 a month with no credit check, no written application, no paperwork of any kind. No I am not kidding.
Stop your bitching and get with the program...
Periods of perceived prosperity and met expectations are the breeding ground of the Narcissist.
While you were enjoying your met expectations, others have been busy sucking the life out of the host.
There are simple reasons the empires keep turning over, like clockwork...
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yeah whatever...
Big Sugar - Diggin A Hole
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U6aNnMqmgc
I've spent a fair amount of time studying all manner of old photos, and there is a very distinct and obvious difference between those born before around 1940 and those born after. And it's not because the latter were in color.
Through "Better Living through Chemistry," we managed to completely upset the environmental (and specifically hormonal) conditions under which we - and all other animals - evolved, and this explains all sorts of things that have heretofore been relegated to matters of society and culture. For example, there is very clear evidence that females have been masculinized and males have been feminized over the last sixty years. Not just humans, but many many species of animals. Some folks here rant about metrosexuals, but do you really think these kinds of things are under conscious control? All you guys taking Viagra: do you realize the reason you need this stuff is because they are pumping you full of estrogenic hormones like Bisphenol-A? Did you know that DDT is both estrogenic and also anti-androgenic? i.e. acts like estrogen and it inhibits the production of testosterone. So much for those DDT proponents, whom I notice are always male.
As tempting as it is for me to make fun of men that need Viagra, it's not a joke. Sperm counts are dropping around the world (they have declined 50% in 50 years in developed nations), but the thing I find stunning is that men seem to be completely ignorant of this fact. I guess ya'all will be taking your ladies to the local stud to get impregnated once you can't reproduce? Viagra only helps get you up, it doesn't make sperm.
Wake the fuck up.
Yes!!!! +1000 Thank you!!!! An excellent summary of what is going on.
Females HAVE become masculinized. And is is due to a change in the chemicals that we are surrounded by and consume. Think about it: why did feminism come into being when it did??? Why didn't you have feminism, at ANY OTHER TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY???? Women have always been as smart as men, and as hard working. And there has always been *some* decent form of contraception available; not ideal, but something. What was different about the 1970s???
Duh, in the 1950s; when plastics and other materials were invented and spread far and wide, those women of the 70s were being born. Their mothers' wombs were flush with all that crap. The changes persists over generations. Now we also get it, as geekgrrl says, from BPA - they line food cans with the stuff!
I am happy that women can now be scientists and doctors and politicians, and that they can take contraception at will and don't have to marry. But this did not come about as a result of a *social* change. It is the result of a human-created environmental chemical change.
Geekgrrl is also right about male sperm counts, and feminization. Is it any accident that the most brutal cultures (Afghanistan, Pakistan) are the most chemically pristine? Just wait til they get plastic bottles. *That's* what we should drop on them.
To add insult to injury, young men are now being sold all sorts of noxious "personal grooming products" that act as a direct delivery system of these estrogenic substances. My grandmother and my mother and I use(d) no creams or other cruds and little makeup; perhaps that is why we can't compete as well as we might. Fathers, give your daughters some sunblock with some oxybenzone in it if you want to produce a corporate raider.
The Girls definitely have bigger tits earlier. The number of chemicals in our daily life exploded. All kinds of trace organic compounds can be found in nearly every water supply.
Long term effects.
I think this is one area where the Limits To Growth folks really underestimated the costs.
If you really want to read something that will blow you mind, check out this.
At least I have most of my hair.
And a good sense of humor
I thought it went without saying that men were real men and women were real women just 70 to 100 years back.
I believe that men tend to lag behind or react to women when it comes to these chemical and social changes. What I mean is, I believe masculinzed, domineering women largely appeared before feminizied, submissive men became so widespread. One thing is for sure... you don't see many late night TV commercials for estrogen boosters... only every manner of testosterone booster imaginable.
Sex between the sexes has never been more screwed up or polarizing as it is today. It's my belief that heterosexuals with strong sex drives and an appreciation for old-fashioned roles and manners are a small and perhaps threatened minority. There is certainly a large pool of sexually confused, sexaully lethargic, sexually ambivalent folks out there. My advice? Lay off your hand and lay off the children and go screw a consenting adult.
"I believe that men tend to lag behind or react to women when it comes to these chemical and social changes. What I mean is, I believe masculinzed, domineering women largely appeared before feminizied, submissive men became so widespread."
Based on the research I've done, both men and women were affected at the same time, due to the same causes. I would like to hear your explanation how chemicals affect females before they affect males.
While your points are true it appears the facts havn't put a single dent in the overall population growth of the planet.
I don't think you have to worry about humans figuring out how to breed because soon we'll have designer babies where parents get to choose how their chromosomes are mixed when producing a child (we already can 'select' based on various genetics with in-vitro etc.). Hell everyone someday will be able to pick genes from their favorite movie stars, wrestlers, olympians, etc. (I'd like Mels ass to go with Tom Cruises chest, and lets go for J. Long penis in that boy haha)
As to the environment and 'sustainability'. Most people have a heck of a time balancing a checkbook, or understanding simple directions, and are taking care of their families, parents. They are either too stupid or too busy to give a shit one way or the other until something hits them directly and even then they typically arn't going to be able to make the connection that B resulted because of action A. Even if they could their limited publically installed and reinforced belief system would probably force them to dismiss the real truth of fact.
As to Viagra, go for younger women and do the sperm enhancing things, as to sperm stop smoking dope/drugs, lose weight, work out, avoid foods and things that have estrogen like hormones (i.e. eat closer to home, more naturally and try to stay away from foods/waters in plastics).
One thing people seem to really want to ignore is that even the natural foods of today are less full of key minerals and nutrients due to the increasingly nutrient poor soils they live in. This lack of good nutrients affects the entire food chain bottom to top then heap on the poisons, toxins, GMO, chemical additions, modification, irradiations, etc. etc.
Improve your libido by going for younger women?
Hahaha, the young women I know earn their own money, and are looking for young, handsome, successful men. Not some old dude who is having trouble getting an erection.
"Would you please go out with me? I can't get it up, with a female who is my equal in age and aesthetic pleasingness."
That is extremely funny.
"As to Viagra, go for younger women"
I think this is in poor taste, but I largely agree with most of the other points you've made. As for this particular point, let me again point out that Viagra does not produce sperm. Once the average sperm count goes below a certain threshold, the birth rate will be declining rapidly.
Already many so-called first-world nations have sub-replacement birth rates, and rely on immigration to make the numbers look good. Why do you think the Mexican population has exploded in the US?
1913 0.5% "other races"... largely working to assimilate, better themselves, and learn the language.
2013 23.5% "other races"... largely pissing on America, killing thousands of Americans in drunk driving wrecks and homicides, and contributing far less to America person for person than the 0.5% did.
Obviously, we need more diversity to solve our problems. The nigger culture that has taken over America hasn't destroyed us completely yet.
Oh and according to Yahoobama! News, Kim Kartrashcan's nigglet is America's first "royal baby".
On the 8th day, The Lord created the orgasm.
So minorities would know when to stop fucking.
What you talkin' 'bout Willis?
@Team Depends.
Re: Tesla. They've done nothing excepy suppress his work, to the benefit of
Standard Oil et al, TPTB could never sanction free energy becoming widely available,as you rightly
allude to,however, they've drawn heavily on the technology that Nicola Tesla discovered,and it's
in use right now in the HAARP tecnology.
This is used for weather modification,widespread and highly advanced, probably earthquake
generating technology,both potentially weapons,and also ultra low frequency radio waves,for population dis-orientation.
nothing EXCEPT supress... (Nicola Tesla)
Except for the AC electrical system, radio, fluorescent lights, Tesla coil and a few other trinkets.
AND>>>> This wonderfully paid message, has been brought to you......BY....(Flip a Coin.)
Pens,
I came to the US in 83, was always in awe of the 20's 30's 40's and 50's industrial capabilities of those era's. Quality , design, ingenuity in perfect harmony, like the Roman's the Greek's and the Egyiptian's at their renaissance. Look at them now and look at us now! Its all but over!
2013 - people who understand sound money.....900.
1 loaf of bread in 1913
0.05 cents.
1 loaf of bread in 2013 2.20~3.00$ depending where.
The Federal Reserve has increased the cost of bread by about 5900%.
800$ in 1913 = 16000 loafs of bread.
26,364$ in 2013 = about 8800 loafs of bread (I rounded up)
By my logic, you were twice as rich in 1913 as you are now.
Thats not even factoring in that todays bread, isn't even really bread, its some kind of geneticly modified thing thats half the size of a normal loaf and probably 80% woodchips and filler.
you owe your living standard to the progress of technology, which has improved the human condition INSPITE of the Federal Reserves Thievery.
If technology stayed the same as it was in 1913, everyone would be starving and or/dead because of the fed.
For some reason this thread and the comments of it took me back a little to my youth.
My mother was an avid reader of many types of books including fiction and non-fiction, I started reading at a very early age and always have, I enjoy it. This thread reminds me of lazy days reading Isaac Asimov and what things would be like in the future.
Anyone familiar with his works may feel a little like me now after reading the thoughts of you lot.
We failed didnt we? It didnt need to be like this did it? Or am I missing something?
Anyhoo, all the best ZHers.
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So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say.
Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
I've been a long-time reader of Asimov's, and I frequently think of his idea of shortening the dark ages - which I am sure he saw coming - and that he layed-out in the Foundation trilogy. Harry Seldon and all that.
100 years of change. Start with a dollar and 100 years later your buying power is.....change.....unless, of course, it is a silver dollar
The real unemployment rate is 23% not 7.6%. People back then read books. Today they tweet gossip and play video games.
Jump the shark....... Might as well compare now vs 1813 or 1813 vs 1913 for a better picture if you are trying to paint progress as a result of the FED. Might as well compare 1913 to 1970 vs 1970 to now also why we are at,