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Originally Posted by Livia

If you're on benefits and you have kids you are considerably more well off now than the average working man would have been in the 1940s. The Guardian have surpassed themselves with this one. It just shows that you can say anything if you massage the statistics hard enough.

Livia... You don't have kids and I'm going to make an educated bet that you've never lived on benefits either. So this is pure guesswork as you actually have absolutely no idea.

Whilst I will agree that if you wa t to break out a spreadsheet and look at the literal amount of money, then yes you would be right, however the world is a completely different place to the world of the 1940s making a like for like comparison of which was "worse" more or less impossible.