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Originally Posted by qprogeny79
but it was also just about the greatest period of economic expansion in human history. the major industrialists such as carnegie and rockefeller almost singlehandedly pulling us out of an agrarian, slave-based hierarchy and into an industrial society from whom millions profited (financially and/or through enormous leaps and bounds in the quality of life) has to count for something.
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And in the process called in some pinkertons to slaughter underpaid protesting workers.