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Re:Silicon Valley's prosperity paradox: 76000 millionaires c... by jimmywanger on Thursday December 22, 2016 @02:24PM (#13239615)
They can mostly not worry about starvation, and have internet access, and they have some access to flush toilets and showers.

What are you talking about? Incan kings slept on stone shelves and covered themselves with poorly tanned animal pelts, and were at the mercy of insects and crop fluctuations. They didn't have modern sewage systems or vaccinations.

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Re:Silicon Valley's prosperity paradox: 76000 millionaires c... by sp332 on Thursday December 22, 2016 @02:54PM (#13239853)
They have notoriously poor access to showers. http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/04/01/san-jose-approves-mobi...
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Re:Silicon Valley's prosperity paradox: 76000 millionaires c... by jimmywanger on Thursday December 22, 2016 @04:50PM (#13240686)
Hence "some access".

A king 1000 years ago would have no conception of what a shower is. They would take baths, but even then, that'd be a seasonal/yearly thing.

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Re:Silicon Valley's prosperity paradox: 76000 millionaires c... by sp332 on Thursday December 22, 2016 @06:06PM (#13241225)
Maybe Incan kings were just not very good. European cities had massive public baths right through the middle ages, "and private domestic baths... were hardly unknown to the Romans". https://books.google.com/books?id=KKrhJ9BbMkkC&lpg=PA63&ots=...
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