Quotes

Upton Sinclair’s line, paraphrased, that one should “never expect someone to understand change when their livelihood depends on not understanding it”).

It’s like, you used to be able to put a 30-second commercial out, but now you’re orchestrating an entire system of content,” he said.

Basic building materials, such as limestone, were not available to early American colonists for home building, so much houses did not last longer than

0 in 1850 to 140 million pounds in 1900

A host of developments take place all over the world, at the same time, and all independently, including things like domesticating dogs.

1848- popular uprisings brought down govts all across Europe.

“default building material of the industrial revolution” Bill Bryson

Of course it hurts. It hits you in the gut. We’ve put our love and everything in it. It’s handing over a baby.

population tripled wealth increased 13X steel production from 13K tons/year to 11.3million/year

What! This is the atrocity which the French have created to give us an idea of their boasted taste…the grotesque mercenary invention of a