#TheDayTheUniverseChanged hashtag - Bluesky

@baloouriza.social.tulsa.ok.us.ap.brid.gy

11 months ago

The Day the Universe Changed - S1 • E6 - Credit Where It's Due: The Factory and Marketplace Revolution Locates the origins of contemporary consumerism in the English industrial Revolution, powered by religious dissenters barred from all activities except trade. The invention of the steam engine, new forms of credit, surplus wealth, and opening markets laid the foundation for industrial society.

Wow, James Burke goes full British imperial using social Darwinism as justification on this one. Not everything he did aged well it seems.

https://l.plex.tv/8TqJPGJ