What are the Trekbbs ads trying to sell to you?
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A calendar featuring Kim Jong Un. Why?
A fiver based internet provider.
I haven’t had internet home in five years and used to have them on the mobile having a bad experience, not going to click.
I haven’t had internet home in five years and used to have them on the mobile having a bad experience, not going to click.
There was this great TLC series about the men who built the unstoppable American economy between the Civil War and WW1.
Vanderbilt gave us railroads.
Rockefeller was the oil producer.
Carnegie mastered the mass production of steel.
Morgan was responsible for electricity.
And Henry Ford introduced modern manufacturing, most notably in cars.
Vanderbilt gave us railroads.
Rockefeller was the oil producer.
Carnegie mastered the mass production of steel.
Morgan was responsible for electricity.
And Henry Ford introduced modern manufacturing, most notably in cars.
i'd say those guys found a way to skim off the cream of your economy - there's a reason they are called the robber barons (of ferenginar)
... and henry ford was an early donor to a certain adolf h later in life
... the fordlandia fiasco, anyone?
I didn't say they were good guys. The show made it very clear that they were total dicks. Just that their actions turned the United States from a second tier nation at best (the Monroe Doctrine in 1815 was like a six-year-old kid telling a bunch of high schoolers not to hang out in his favorite city park) to the dominant industrial power of the 20th century.
that would have happened anyway, but it could have been done much fairer - you still suffer from that ferengi style exploitation
Definitely a thing. Pet health care can be very expensive if something serious happens, and our universal health care only covers people.
Our own little taste of what the American system is like, here at home. (Well, that and dental care, but at least that one’s starting to change.)
I think the Ferengis' would have loved our era of late 19th-century Robber Barons. It would have been cool if Quark or other Ferengis' would reference Earth's commercial history to show reverence, point out human failings, or compare Ferengi - commercial history with Human commercial history... Humans are more Ferengi than we would like to be...
