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Social hierarchy was delightfully literal. The wealthy paid a premium to sit safely inside the wooden box, while the poor were strapped to the absolute…
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Henry Ford famously offered the Model T automobile in any color the customer wanted, as long as that color was black, but this was not actually an artistic…
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