Words@brothersgibb.com message digest 07/16/2016 15:01 (#2016-106)
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Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 19:04:33 -0700
From: Yasmine Ghulamali <yasdaz17@fastmail.fm>
Subject: Re: Samuel Crompton
There would also be a huge difference in mortality between rich and poor
people, even more than there is today. Poor people, even those who
survive to 30, would be more likely to die younger having had to work
themselves to the bone and having no means of saving for retirement, no
safety net when they literally could no longer work. Yasmine
On 7/14/2016 2:09 PM, Salvatore Compoccia via Words wrote:
> Yes that explains a lot, yet that critical factor is often left out.
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> Thanks Joe.
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> Salvatore Compoccia
> compoccia@aol.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Brennan
> To: Words List Member
> Sent: Wed, Jul 13, 2016 10:12 pm
> Subject: [Words] Samuel Crompton
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> Salvatore Compoccia via Words > wrote:
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> > Life expectancy was supposedly so much shorter in the 18th & 19th
> > centuries
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> The numbers usually given are skewed by a tremendous amount of child
> mortality. If you made it to age 30, your chances of old age were pretty
> good. Not like now, but pretty good.
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> --Joe Brennan
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