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The midday caffeine dose was not a gracious gift to let you relax and socialize. Employers realized that heavily caffeinated workers made fewer errors on the…
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You might think it was designed to give adults a living wage, but it was actually just a tool to price ten-year-olds out of the coal mines. If employers had…
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Labor unions literally had to bleed and die in the streets during the nineteenth century just to force wealthy factory owners to grant the working class the…
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The independent labor economy used to involve substantially more bloodshed. The term was coined in the nineteenth century to describe medieval mercenaries who…
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Diplomacy is absolutely useless when you can just deploy a private militia. Industrial titans routinely hired armed detective agencies to violently…
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Because quitting your job is impossible when your boss literally owns the dirt you stand on. Medieval laborers were legally bound to their local lord's…
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