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Online Shopping with Amanda Mull

You're Wrong About

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What Is the Difference Between Home Delivery and Newsboys?

In the 19th century prior to this era, you have a populace that is like in America that is mostly rural. They don't participate like actively in Like the formalized nine to five work economy because that sort of comes with industrialization. So shopping as a thing does not exist as it does today in this era. And yet children are allowed to ride their bikes around shucking papers on but the point is that they don't do it all day. This is making me wonder why newsboys went extinct.

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Speaker 2
This is making me wonder like why newsboys one extinct because I know one of the reasons was that it was replaced by home delivery. But it's like, why was that more economical and required so many fewer? When why did we have to lose skills in selling newspapers? This is all I care about.
Speaker 1
I'm afraid that was probably child
Speaker 3
labor loss. And
Speaker 2
yet children are allowed to ride their bikes around shucking papers on, but the point is that they don't do it all day. So there you go. So it became a morning job. So okay.
Speaker 1
In the 19th century prior to this era, you have a populace that is like in America that is like mostly rural that mostly, you know, makes their own clothes, grows most of their own food and the things that they need to buy usually come from like dry goods stores. They don't participate like actively in like the formalized nine to five work economy because that sort of comes with industrialization. Right. So shopping as a thing does not exist as it does today in this era. And this is like the late 19th century. It's not that long ago. Yeah. Because like you go to the general store and like the guy in your community who owns it is behind the counter. There's no like packaged goods at this point. And then for other stuff, like if you wanted, if you needed more milk than you could like personally produce or more eggs or something and you had like a neighbor down the road who who had extra, you just like traded with people around you, which is nice. But also like I don't want to overly idealize it because there was a lot of hunger in this era.

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