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May 13, 2017 Leave a Comment

Yesteryear’s Billionaires Worse off than You

by Jack Le Moine

George Will
George Will May 21, 2011
CC BY-SA 2.0 image from Wikipedia

From the latest happenings in things historical. This article Think you’re living in a ‘hellhole’ today? Try being a billionaire in 1916. was published 8 days ago in The Washington Post. The article’s author is George Will.

All the things we take for granted that they did not have then: computers, television, even refrigerators.

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