Twighlight
Quantum Scribe
Hmm. An issue that I don't think I have ever seen raised here....
I can remember the days...mid 70s...when one could buy 2 pints of beer, and a pack of ciggies......and still have change of £1. A pound could buy a lot more back then.....a pack of ciggies was 33 pence. Who would ever have imagined that one day a pack would be £5 !!
My dad bought a house in 1965 for £6,000.....that would now be worth £600,000. Now as a time traveller, this would be really rather good. All I have to do is travel forward to a time when people are earning £6 million a month for flipping burgers. £6000 would be half an hour's salary.
Then I pop back to 1965 and buy that house....with my wages for half an hour's work.
Then all I have to do is leave that house in my name, and come back to 2009. Lo and behold....with just 3 time trips.....I have converted half an hour's burger flipping wages into £600,000 !!
Las Vegas is going to be a ghost city when time travelling gets going.
I can remember the days...mid 70s...when one could buy 2 pints of beer, and a pack of ciggies......and still have change of £1. A pound could buy a lot more back then.....a pack of ciggies was 33 pence. Who would ever have imagined that one day a pack would be £5 !!
My dad bought a house in 1965 for £6,000.....that would now be worth £600,000. Now as a time traveller, this would be really rather good. All I have to do is travel forward to a time when people are earning £6 million a month for flipping burgers. £6000 would be half an hour's salary.
Then I pop back to 1965 and buy that house....with my wages for half an hour's work.
Then all I have to do is leave that house in my name, and come back to 2009. Lo and behold....with just 3 time trips.....I have converted half an hour's burger flipping wages into £600,000 !!
Las Vegas is going to be a ghost city when time travelling gets going.