24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot
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Monday, January 21, 2008
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A video meme that’s going around: “24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot (Jack Bauer saves the world with AOL 3.0).
Don Boudreaux commends it to “those who believe that America’s middle-class has been economically stagnant.” It’s also pretty funny even if you believe no such thing.
via Megan McArdle, who’s recently gotten a new haircut.
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Classic stuff–and I have never seen 24–the tech jokes are fantastic.
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Hilarious! Thanks for that
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Of course the middle class hasn’t been stagnant economically. There’s way more debt than there was thirty years ago.
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Of course you might want to look at the actual data and discover that consumer spending on internet connections actually amounts to 0.3% of the typical consumers basket of goods and services.
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But that’s not really the point. Even the lower middle class have richly improved access to information that simply weren’t available even to wealthy Americans a decade ago. That’s something pretty incredible.
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