Reply #4: One thing that is different [View All]

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In those days, most Americans lived on the farm, in houses they owned because no bank would give them a loan. They know they were getting the short end of the stick, because they were barely participating in the economy. They grew most of their food, made their own clothes, had no electricity and pumped their own water from a well (no indoor plumbing either). It looked a lot more like how things are in the Third World now.

Now people are dependent on the corporate economy. A huge chunk of them buy their food and clothes at Wal-Mart and they are dependent on corporate controlled gasoline, electricity, natural gas and telecommunications. They can't simplify back to 1900, even if they wanted to.