09-03-2013, 02:12 PM
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Re: How times change - thank goodness
Originally Posted by Bruce
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Small minded eh? I'm glad you are happy to see children working down mines or under looms or people working from dawn to dusk six or seven days a week for a pitiful pay. The sole reason this doesn't happen any more is because of technology. The technology you so despise creates the extra wealth that allows you to have retirement, welfare payments, public hospitals, affordable transport systems, entertainment, 38 hour working weeks, leisure time, holidays all the myriad of things that makes modern society so pleasant.
I do not despise technology (quite a leap from you there) but I don't see it as being wholly benevolent either. Technology, inarguably, has cost jobs for people for the reasons I have already given. If more and more people are unemployed, where will the money come from to pay for pensions, welfare, hospitals? If people aren't working, they can't afford entertainment and holidays - they're trying to survive on benefits and low pay as salaries/wages are driven down relative to the cost of living.
09-03-2013, 03:12 PM
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Re: How times change - thank goodness
Originally Posted by Willow
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What hasn't changed for the better?
I can remember buying a new white loaf, and it smelt nice as well as tasting nice, not any longer.
I also think over the years quality has suffered, maybe because we buy more foreign goods.
09-03-2013, 03:57 PM
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Re: How times change - thank goodness
Originally Posted by Pats CG
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Its obvious 'technology' has cost a lot of workers their jobs. Plus the recent closure of so many shops due to online purchasing = no business rates etc., its a shame - but thats progress for ya..
09-03-2013, 04:17 PM
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Re: How times change - thank goodness
Originally Posted by Wrinkly
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I think the taste of food is not as good as it was some years back.I can remember buying a new white loaf, and it smelt nice as well as tasting nice, not any longer.
I also think over the years quality has suffered, maybe because we buy more foreign goods.
Now your talking Arthur, I got a sandwich in my son's house last week and the bread tasted and felt like nearly dry putty, he said he got in in a well known supermarket, he's as useless as me for shopping.
Years ago you could get a loaf in one of the many bakeries (now closed) and you would start picking at it and have half of it eaten before you got home, followed by a wallop from your mother, but it was worth it, lovely bread and sadly missed today, although my wife's homemade bread is not bad. Sorry she's looking over my shoulder, I meant to say it's gorgeous.
09-03-2013, 10:07 PM
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Re: How times change - thank goodness
Originally Posted by Alan Cooke
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One thing that has got worse is the amount of freedom the children have. When I was a child I could go to play in the woods about a mile away from home and be there all day with my pals. No parent would allow that these days.
Originally Posted by Wrinkly
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I think the taste of food is not as good as it was some years back.I can remember buying a new white loaf, and it smelt nice as well as tasting nice, not any longer.
I also think over the years quality has suffered, maybe because we buy more foreign goods.
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