
Episode 1: Welcome to Global Capitalism
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The Story of a Ship and Its History
i had never quite felt a so much on earth, even though i was in this it was this very strange and disconcerning feeling. The port of oakland is one of the largest ports in the united states doing almost two million tons importing an exporting cargo. Ih'd gone deep enough into the history of trade that i needed to see how it worked in the present day. It's a very long elevator ride up to midsection of the crane. Walk out on ther we clang along walkways, tramp upstairs, shimme up a metow ladder. Finally, we climb one last flight of stairs to the apex. We're 250 feet and we're surrounded by nothing
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