Quote Originally Posted by The Libertarian View Post

It actually really renforces my view that having been in the bottom 10% from a socio-economic POV in our society, when I was growing up, that I would have been vastly better off if I was born anywhere in East Germany or urban Hungary or Urban Czechoslovakia! Imagine I could have got laid and would have great summers and it would have actually been easier to get a job than here!
I wouldn't be so sure about any of this. The only difference there might have been the 10 per cent of your socio-economic group would have been far larger. If East Germany was all that you think it was they wouldn't have needed so many methods like secret police, travel restrictions and the Berlin Wall to keep people there. And to be honest I don't know of too many born in the late '60s in Ireland who had difficulty getting laid.