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- Remind them to ponder the question of "cui bono" -- who benefits from the narrative that "steam" is the "next big thing"? the answer: mostly filthy rich industrial tyrants, filthy rich iron founders, filthy rich colliery operators, and filthy rich London speculators.
Do your part to […]
- Remind them to ponder the question of "cui bono" -- who benefits from the narrative that "steam" is the "next big thing"? the answer: mostly filthy rich industrial tyrants, filthy rich iron founders, filthy rich colliery operators, and filthy rich London speculators.
Do your part to […]
- If you hear someone talking about how "steam" is going to change everything, treat them the same way you'd treat a mesmerist talking about whatever mesmerists believe in: it is BS cult nonsense for marks and rubes.
- If you hear someone talking about how "steam" is going to change everything, treat them the same way you'd treat a mesmerist talking about whatever mesmerists believe in: it is BS cult nonsense for marks and rubes.
- No, "steam power" is not "inevitable." The noisy, clanking piston contraptions that are being positioned as the next big thing right now are inefficient curiosities, and not even profitable curiosities, and there's no path to develop them into anything else because that's just how they work.
- No, "steam power" is not "inevitable." The noisy, clanking piston contraptions that are being positioned as the next big thing right now are inefficient curiosities, and not even profitable curiosities, and there's no path to develop them into anything else because that's just how they work.