melissap Wrote:
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> Some perspective using Darcy. Somewhere in the
> top 200 of wealth in his time (for England, but
> still the superpower at this time), his buying
> power is estimated somewhere between 1 and 6
> million a year. (Thanks Suzanne O, I had read 2
> million). Compare that to the 200th wealthiest man
> in 2012, Mark Zuckerberg, who was worth 6.8
> Billion.
>
> So would Darcy be quite the catch? Absolutely,
> look at Zuckerberg for a close comparasion to how
> Darcy may have been viewed. Is Elizabeth such a
> poor choice? Not really.
I think darcy's buying power estimated at 1 to 6 million is when compared to today's buying power, in his day, the text only mentions 10,000 a year, so I wouldn't regard him as a close comparison to a man worth 6.8 billion today. rushworth and darcy worth 12,000 and 10,000 a year respectively, are the richest characters in the novels, and even if darcy is slightly less than rushworth, he would be more eligible, considering rushworth's stupidity. someone has compared darcy with a worth of about 100 million tuday, and mr bennet with a few millions, and I agree with that comparison.
[btw, sorry for the typos with lack of capital letters, having trouble with capital letters]
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> Some perspective using Darcy. Somewhere in the
> top 200 of wealth in his time (for England, but
> still the superpower at this time), his buying
> power is estimated somewhere between 1 and 6
> million a year. (Thanks Suzanne O, I had read 2
> million). Compare that to the 200th wealthiest man
> in 2012, Mark Zuckerberg, who was worth 6.8
> Billion.
>
> So would Darcy be quite the catch? Absolutely,
> look at Zuckerberg for a close comparasion to how
> Darcy may have been viewed. Is Elizabeth such a
> poor choice? Not really.
I think darcy's buying power estimated at 1 to 6 million is when compared to today's buying power, in his day, the text only mentions 10,000 a year, so I wouldn't regard him as a close comparison to a man worth 6.8 billion today. rushworth and darcy worth 12,000 and 10,000 a year respectively, are the richest characters in the novels, and even if darcy is slightly less than rushworth, he would be more eligible, considering rushworth's stupidity. someone has compared darcy with a worth of about 100 million tuday, and mr bennet with a few millions, and I agree with that comparison.
[btw, sorry for the typos with lack of capital letters, having trouble with capital letters]