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post #1 of 21
7/8/11 at 2:51pm
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Live today as a poor person (I'll allow you to define poor)

or

Live 500 years ago as a person of great power (King of England, Pope, etc.), however you will have perfect knowledge of everything that is missing from your life that is currently available in the year 2011 (e.g. antibiotics, television, internet, etc.). So basically you could think of it as taking yourself as you are today and traveling back in time 500 years, but with no way to get back to the present.

Had this discussion with a few people at work and found the responses to be pretty interesting.
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post #2 of 21
7/8/11 at 2:57pm
Today. 'Comfortably poor' as defined by Felix Dennis. The comfortable poor £2m-£5m: The comfortably off £5m-£15m: The comfortably wealthy £15m-£40m: The lesser rich £40m-£75m: The comfortably rich £75m-£100m: The rich £100m-£200m: The seriously rich £200m-£400m: The truly rich £400m-£999m: The filthy rich More than £999m: The super rich
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post #3 of 21
7/8/11 at 3:03pm
its good ta be da king - mel brooks
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post #4 of 21
7/8/11 at 6:53pm
a King dude.

poor person today also has knowledge of everything he is missing...
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post #5 of 21
7/8/11 at 8:41pm
Live as a pope 500 years ago and have my whole collection of kids for my personal enjoyme-- Oops, I meant live as a respectable pope 500 years ago
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post #6 of 21
7/8/11 at 8:59pm
I'd want to be a man of great power 500 years ago, if it's anything like the various HBO series' lead me to believe, I'd be able to lay around all day drinking, and fucking. Oh wait, that's what poor people these days do anyway.
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post #7 of 21
7/8/11 at 9:15pm
Obviously King.

Imagine having the opportunity to advance science and socio economics 500 years ago based on today's knowledge.
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post #8 of 21
7/9/11 at 6:54pm
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Originally Posted by Dbear View Post
a King dude.

poor person today also has knowledge of everything he is missing...

Eh, there's a lot that they're not missing too.

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Originally Posted by Fraiche View Post
Obviously King.

Imagine having the opportunity to advance science and socio economics 500 years ago based on today's knowledge.

Nobody that I've posed this question to (including myself) has thought about it from the perspective that you just did. People always come at the question from a lifestyle perspective and never from a social impact perspective.

That said, I'm still taking the life of the poor person. I place a lot of value on ibuprofen.
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post #9 of 21
7/9/11 at 10:16pm
I'd be a fucking Mayan god. I'd drink chocolate, fuck my women, and sacrifice miserable bastards to whatever god they believed in. Then, I'd have an ear of corn.
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post #10 of 21
7/9/11 at 11:12pm
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Originally Posted by Rambo View Post
I'd be a fucking Mayan god. I'd drink chocolate, fuck my women, and sacrifice miserable bastards to whatever god they believed in. Then, I'd have an ear of maize.
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post #11 of 21
7/9/11 at 11:16pm
I dont know... I really like the present. I think I'd stay. I would choose the king if I didn't know about the present
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post #12 of 21
7/9/11 at 11:17pm
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Originally Posted by CouttsClient View Post
you'll be my first sacrifice.
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post #13 of 21
7/10/11 at 12:19am
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Originally Posted by Rambo View Post
I'd be a fucking Mayan god. I'd drink chocolate, fuck my women, and sacrifice miserable bastards to whatever god they believed in. Then, I'd have an ear of corn.
Rambo, he said "person" so in order to make that mayan god thing work (at least in your head) you're going to need about 400mcg of LCD mixed in that chocolate
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post #14 of 21
7/10/11 at 12:21am
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Originally Posted by shibbel View Post
Rambo, he said "person" so in order to make that mayan god thing work (at least in your head) you're going to need about 400mcg of LCD mixed in that chocolate

I've heard that LCD is a hell of a drug.
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post #15 of 21
7/10/11 at 1:33am
It depends....

Having armies of women for conquest and men for bloodsport is nice...

But a person today has comforts a Renaissance duke could only dream of. Ice water (during the summer) was an unheard of luxury back in the day, for example.

King though...my my my my my
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