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Michael Kao
Mar 22, 2020
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Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw

My biggest takeaway from this book was how “history may not always repeat itself, but it often rhymes,” to paraphrase Mark Twain.  The inexorable march of technological progress has consistently exerted deflationary pressure on wages and forced labor to become more educated/skilled in order to adapt.  Another recurring them…

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