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The Industrial Revolutions

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The Industrial Revolutions

When the Founding Fathers wrote the US Constitution in the 1780s, Lifefund Planet Earth had changed very slowly over the previous 10,000 years. Just in these last 30 years that I've been alive, we've seen mail turn into email and phones turn into cell phones. CDs and DVDs replaced cassettes and VHS tapes, then Spotify and Netflix went and replaced CDs and DVDs. None of this was thinkable when my parents were born. We legalized same-sex marriage. Violent crime fell so much in the United States that the problem of gentrification has replaced the problem of white flight. China went from taking our jobs to sending their own over to Africa. The Industrial Revolution's

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