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The Stories We Tell Ourselves

The Jacob Shapiro Podcast

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The Rise of Electric Light in the United States

Electric light was incredible. It changed the way people lived. But as far as pure productivity growth, like it did something, but it wasn't huge. And it really wasn't until the 1920s when you saw electricity being applied in a manufacturing context that you saw, oh my God, this is the next level. This is when it really starts to impact the physical world around us and economies and economies relative to each other.

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