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What has changed since the 90's? For younger people out there, older ones like me have noticed lots of changes in the past few decades.  I was born in 1981.  For me, the 80's were my first decade and I graduated from high school in 1999.  My 20's were the 00's and I turned 30 in 2011.  Being a teenager in the late 90's as well as a young twenty something in the 00's, I saw lots of changes in how people live life.  This article is my attempt at chronicling some of that. Cell Phones. I first saw one of these in the late 80's.  The second was in the early 90's.  Both were mounted to the car itself and called a car phone.  I was told not to touch it because it was a hundred dollars to pick it up.  In the mid 90's I remember my mother getting a large hand held phone, but it was more of a fashion accessory than it is today.  She only used it when her cool friends were around on the weekend, but it was clear they were getting cheaper....

A fundamental error of socialism. Be sure to use the subtitles, they help with following the video. Socialism is not the answer to an oppressive oligarchy of rich capitalists. To see this, let’s examine the central idea of Marxism first. This is the basic premise of Marxism. As time goes on and people use their property and resources to gain more, some people will have more than others. These resources will then be reinvested to gain more and more wealth until eventually a small group of people will own everything. This small group of people will be the employers for the rest of the population. Also, everyone else will have to purchase whatever they need from this small group. This wealthy elite provide nothing of value to society. They simply own the factories, money needed for investments, etc. Marx said that eventually the laborers will rise up and take over the means of production, and create a socialist utopia. While this hasn’t happened in the wel...