Which would you choose? 70k today or in 1900? (1 Viewer)

[FLIPPY]

Actually, because antibiotics and other medicines werent' available yet, the old-school STDs that aren't that scary now could kill you back then.

Buzz kill.....












I'd just pour some Dr Tichenors on it.....

 

[superchuck500]

Buzz kill.....

I know right? I seriously thought the same thing as I posted that.

 

[saintsfaninva]

1900, I'd be poking everything in sight...and not worring about dying from it....

Have you ever heard of how they treated STD's in those days? There was a special syringe to insert whatever wacky treatment they were using without anesthesia. There was a good example of it on Boardwalk Empire last week.

I would go back in time. 1900's would be seeing new technology and advancements including air conditioning.

 

[gboudx]

Don't forget to move your money out of the stock market in and around 1928.

 

[theicebox]

70k is middle class?

 

[You]

some very funny stuff posted here.

I thought about it and I'd probably go with the 1900 deal. I'd take a mansion on St. Charles avenue and live large.

I'd short the market right around 1927.

 

[urzombiefood]

I can buy me alot of tooth ache medicine with 70 grand...just sayin.

 

[Paul]

As a black guy, I don't see how it would have been possible back in 1900.

 

[mb504]

Today. I like my life, my family, and modern conveniences. I like the knowledge gained and a lot of the cultural achievements in music, etc. over the last century. I'll most likely never be rich in today's era, but money really isn't everything. And a $70k windfall in today's dollars which would allow me to pay off some student loan and other debt would be pretty helpful.

 

[You]

As a black guy, I don't see how it would have been possible back in 1900.

Might be pretty cool though to be a rich black guy.

By the way... There was a story on the News last night about a house in New Orleans which I'd consider a mansion which was built by a black man in 1900. I think his name was Lacroix. Not sure where the wealth came from.

 

[SaintArchieManning]

This is a no-brainer.

The $70,000 in 1900 would make you in the top 1% of society.

And if you didnt know about tv, internet porn, etc., you wouldnt even know what you were missing!

 

[gaminerie]

Might be pretty cool though to be a rich black guy.

By the way... There was a story on the News last night about a house in New Orleans which I'd consider a mansion which was built by a black man in 1900. I think his name was Lacroix. Not sure where the wealth came from.

Unless it was built before 1900 ....That may have been a descendant of Francois Lacroix (died 1875), a free black man who made a fortune before the Civil War as an extremely sought-after tailor to the rich. His shop was on Chartres Street.

He invested (in real estate) much of the fortune he earned selling expensive clothes to the plantation-heir and opera-house set. He owned lots in every suburb, and built many houses which he then rented to tenants. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Francois Lacroix was regarded as the richest man in Louisiana. His estate was still selling 100 lots of his property at one time, 20 years after his death. Lacroix had owned the land on which the city's smallpox hospital was built.

His brother Julien (died 1868) was a successful 7th-Ward grocer. It appears the Lacroix family was a very enterprising family.

To answer the OP, i'd take the $70K in 1900.

 

[Cam71090]

Might be pretty cool though to be a rich black guy.

By the way... There was a story on the News last night about a house in New Orleans which I'd consider a mansion which was built by a black man in 1900. I think his name was Lacroix. Not sure where the wealth came from.

Was it called the rising sun?

 

[krushing]

With that amount of money, you can buy a winter house and have "servants" carry you there on their backs.

I assumed I had to work in a set location for that 70K/year. Didnt know I could move around at will and still collect my hypothetical 70K.

 

[RazorOye]

man... I like air conditioning way too much

I'll take the 70k now and

, thank you very much