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from Doug Henwood (dhenwood@panix.com)
>On the other hand, suppose you threatened to take >me back in time and have me born not in 1960 but >in 1860. I would pay everything I have to avoid >it, for I would be dead of pneumonia at the age >of 5... > >And I, at least, cannot think of anyone in 1900 >whom I would regard as being as well-off in a >material-welfare sense as I am today...

True, but there's no such thing as time travel, and I'm pretty sure there never will be.

Let's turn that around: do you feel sad that people will probably be materially richer in ways we can't even imagine - leaving aside the possiblities of ecological catastrophe or nuclear war - in 2100 Contributed by Doug Henwood (dhenwood@panix.com) on March 17, 2000.

(posted 8730 days ago)

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