Re: Getting wealthier?

Robert Henderson wrote:
While most do not have something then the lack is not felt. RH
Yes, that's the claim which you have not backed up in any way.
Everyone knows it's true from their own experience.

So your absurd claim is that no-one in the fifties without a
TV, a car or a telephone felt the lack? No-one ever said "wouldn't
it be nice to have a TV"? If they really did feel the way you claim,
no-one would ever have bothered to buy one. Similarly, most people
today do not have Wiis; try asking young people you meet whether
they would like one.

All this may have been true on planet BM. Back in the real world motoring was generally a case of travelling relaxedly along unjammed roads. RH

Did pater have a police escort clearing the way for your
family's Bentley? Or were you too busy playing "I spy" and asking
"are we nearly there yet?" to notice the traffic conditions? Did
you ever travel along [eg] the A1 at a busy time? Did you ever try
to cross a busy road, either as a pedestrian or as a motorist?

[...] Navigation was virtually impossible over much
of the country;
Not if one could read a map. RH

Spoken like a non-driver. Even today, you could not drive
from my house to the station or to [eg] Derby by following either
the local street map or the instructions given you by the major
on-line route-finders: you would find yourself being told to
drive through cul-de-sacs, the wrong way along one-way streets,
along streets given the wrong names, and so on. Possibly it will
be corrected within the next year or three. Back in 1955, most
of us relied on maps such as those in the AA handbook, which do
not give most minor roads, and on signposts, which were often not
provided at even quite major junctions.

--
Andy Walker
Nottingham
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