The Subtle Art of Doing Nothing (with Celeste Headlee)
The Stacking Benjamins Show
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The Steam Engine and the Industrial Revolution
The steam engine made factories possible. It also made it so much cheaper for that factory to make a bit of lace, for example,. That put a huge number of small business people out of business. Women had a lot of their own little businesses, making clothes, sewing sails and they were put out of business almost immediately. The pace of work relaxed. Our ancestors may not have been rich, but they had an abundance of leisure.
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