>>Ah, this'll be Maggie's forecast of wealth cascading down from the rich to the peasantry. Tell me when to get the umbrella out ;-)
Without capitalism, the peasants would still be peasants, would work seven days a week and would die at 40 if they were lucky. These days they have satellite TV. It cascades all right, it's just that people always want more.
Watch this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgAHNtPUVEw
A Thames Television programme from 1970 called "We Was All One". That's how the peasants lived in 1970. (Dog, watch all the parts; you'll enjoy it.)
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