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A comment on Silicon Valley's prosperity paradox: 76000 millionaires can't fix local poverty. Parent comment

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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