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Parent Post: Akashic pay scale
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saarnok
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9/1/2025, 12:01:35 AM
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Not all of us are ten years old. I knew people who lived during the time you're talking about. It wasn't that terribly long ago. My grandfather was born in 1915 and he was by no means the oldest person I ever met. One of my friends knew a Civil War veteran. It's so recent an event we actually have recordings of people who lived at that time. All you're doing is distracting from what would otherwise become fairly obvious. What's the big REAL change from then to now? Our money supply was ruined and the country REgained the power to endlessly print money to pay for war. Inflation is the process of stealing the value of your money without the need to physically touch it. Inflation was codified into law in 1913 and followed by WW1 and everything else for the next hundred years and counting. Most, if not all "mud flood" evidence is actually evidence of city planning catching up to development as drainage was added into existing cities. In some cases buildings were actually jacked up and new foundations created, but, most often, retaining walls were built, the exterior grade raised, and new entrances added to the old buildings. The biggest change, the part which makes it true we "can't build things like that anymore" is that we can no longer afford the skilled labor to do so. Beyond that, if you factor in modern amenities, every old building needed to be rebuilt to accommodate modern electrical, plumbing and hvac which would in many cases mean significant structural changes to rebuild a building that no longer served a modern purpose. Most modern business buildings are cheap, shoddy structures intended to have lifespans of just a decade or so when they'll be torn down and replaced with a building appropriate for the modern circumstance.
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