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WiM002 - The Saylor Series | Episode 2 | The Rise of Man through the Dark and Steel Ages

The "What is Money?" Show

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The Impact of Steel and Aluminum

In their day, mean, if the dollars inflated or its debased by a factor of a hundred, at least wel i mean, john d rockefeller was worth 304 hundred million dollars in his money. So so, relatively speaking, right? They had extraordinary power. But they were all technology capitalist. A carnegie created an empire based on steel. And the andrew melins empire was substantially based on aluminum and alumin alcoa. Steel is an elemental force for the civil engineering industry. Without steel, there really there is no modern a city.

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