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Part One: The Man Who Invented The Military-Industrial Complex

Behind the Bastards

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The Fucking Machine Shop

Friedrich succeeded in getting the crup family's first military contract, which was just like supplying steel bayonets. But he never made enough money fast enough to make up for all the debts he incurred trying to figure out how to make cast steel. And of course, the other family business failed. He spends the last two years of his life impoverished and bedridden, ranting incoherently about his ruined life and fortune. Never ever chase your dreams. If there's one lesson of this pod s, it's that dreams are a bad idea a and no sa to give up.

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