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Poll: Would you rather be middle class in 2010 or super rich in 1910?

Woud you rather be middle class in 2010 or super rich in 1910?

  • Middle class in 2010

  • Super rich in 1910

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Do you realized the ridiculous bullshit the super rich used to get away with back in the day? Even people like Carnegie and Rockefeller who were very much in the public got away with crazy shit back then.

Not saying they don't still get away. But at least now a days there are enough cameras that once in a while they get busted.
 
1910 you have middle class worker forming unions, but the government stay the heck out of your business. No income tax. No anti trust law, therefore monopoly is the norm if you have money. Women don't get to take 50% of your empire.

Hell yes, 1910 is way better.
 
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Probably 2010, I do not look forward to living through The Spanish Flu or WW1's draft. But, I guess something worse could be just around the corner in 2010...
 
Super rich in 1910. That way I can pay everybody else to kiss my ass and live a life of pure luxury.

Plus the sex slaves would be an added touch. Think about it, you could have anything you wanted.
 
If I was super rich in 1910, I could pretty much do whatever the hell I wanted, right?

Instead of watching "24" on my 50" Plasma, I could hire an acting troop to do a live action drama play for me! Think about that... I could tell them to get rid of any stupid sub-plots that annoyed me, and I could even PLAY Jack Bauer if I wanted to. Advantage: Rich Guy from the Past!

Instead of owning one car, I could own a fleet of Rolls-Royce and Pierce Arrow limos. I could hire a staff to clean and fix them for me. Maybe I'll even get them custom monogrammed with gold paint... why not, I can afford it! Advantage: Rich Guy from the Past!

Instead of owning a two bedroom house, I could buy a 20 room lake-front mansion with a greenhouse and a yacht parked out front, that I could use to sail to the Caribbean in fall. Advantage: Rich Guy from the past!

Not to mention that a lot of drugs like cocaine and weed were legal back then, and I could pretty much get any woman I wanted. Big Advantage for the rich guy.

The only downside is that I might get sick and die of a easily treatable illness back in the past... although health-care still sucks today. Odds are that my health insurance wouldn't pay for the treatment in modern times anyway... giving me the choice of bankruptcy or death. I'm calling that one a tie.
 
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spidey07 said:
Super rich in 1910. That way I can pay everybody else to kiss my ass and live a life of pure luxury.

Plus the sex slaves would be an added touch. Think about it, you could have anything you wanted.
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And spend weeks waiting for it to arrive.
 
Schadenfroh said:
Probably 2010, I do not look forward to living through The Spanish Flu or WW1's draft. But, I guess something worse could be just around the corner in 2010...
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Most if not all people can survive a flu given enough clean water/food/warmth.

Blue blooded people don't get draft. They join the army as commanders out of boredom.
 
Super rich in 1910 is like...super mega insane rich compared to the billionaires today. Those fuckers had empires.
 
I'm still having fun imagining what "24" would be like in 1910:

Terrorists don't really exist yet, so Jack Bauer will have to fight bank robbers or Mexican smugglers or something.
Most kinds of WMD's don't exist yet, so the bad guys will need to use mustard gas or just lots of fancy new machine guns that just got invented.
No cell phones, so I guess that Jack Bauer will need to get his bad intel from the government via telegraph or pony express or something.
Torture was probably still legal back then. Good, because Jack likes using it 🙂
There were plenty of guns and explosives back then for Jack to use if needed.
Chloe will need to be more like a sidekick for Jack to occasionally give him good ideas... kinda like Watson to Sherlock Holmes.

I'm liking this idea... maybe Fox can do a spin-off show 🙂
 
jhu said:
Which one gets me the most women?
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1910 was before the age of condoms, so you'd probably get a lot more willing participants in 2010. Luckily you're rich enough to buy your way out of jail whenever you find unwilling participants.
 
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