More than a hundred years ago, Thomas Edison said he invented the light bulb.

Alexander Graham Bell said he invented the telephone.

But nobody is taking any credit for inventing, nor do we have any idea who invented the thing that has changed

our culture and our world more than any other.

Hey, it's Seth, And this is a Kimbo.

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This podcast is a little bit of a rant and it includes a word salad,

words that have real meanings

that are all related to one another

that often start with the letter C,

and each one of which is involved in the idea of industrialism. Some of those words, capitalism, cheaper,

coercion, cotton, conspiracy, cast, cattle, cleptocracy, which doesn't actually start with C, computers and constraints.

Industrialism is an invisible force but it is one that has shaped our vocabulary,

our culture, the way we live our lives, what we expect, the idea of surplus and everything

in between.

Industry craves productivity because cheaper wins, but cheaper productivity comes from cheaper labor with fewer protections.

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