when coming over from US to backwards Europe". (Their mom is EU born)
These girls (today you'd certainly say women) asked sheepishly (it was an act, but well enacted) "if Europe ghad so many actreses and super models" ... because to THEIR standards, most women they saw were "extremely thin".
Same thing went for our cars being "matchboxsize"
Oh, we all had a good laugh. But yes, America has been living "above its own wealth".
Can we blme them
In the fifties and sixties, Europe still lived above its own capacities, and many nations had to work very hard , to make up for the loss of the "colonies".
amarica (US) didn't have such colonies, but influenced large parts of the world, and business rules were in their favour (well, ours too, it was the indians, the congolese etc who were on the least-fair end of the "rules" )
But counting inflation, risen "stanards of living", fuel is stil cheaper now than it was in the early fifties. And that was countng the high EU "taxes" them too.
If energy had to be produced by manpower ( let his horse hep him,tredding the wheel for the dynamo ) it would instantly become as expensive as it was in the 19th century, when only the countries who owned coal mines were "on top" of the worlds economy.
Ever thought of hand-mining coal again, just for burning it in electrical plants ?
Electricity would become very expenive, yes.
To be fair: here people complain as well and dont realise they are FAR better of than heir parents were.
These parents had to save money BEFORE buying the first car, the first tele, th first washing machine (dishwsher? Luxury, boy, when you win the smmer lotto...)
Toay one can leave the parental nest, borrow money for everything and ... complain about how hard working at a keyboard is. You, dad, you were always in the outside. You don't know how hard it is to SIT all day" |
