Third update on my co-worker. Well guys, he’s in a relationship again, this time, with a woman that is about to be 44. He’s about to be 39 by the way. They met on the job, and she liked him while he was in a relationship with his ex. His friends told him to wait before he get in a relationship to stack his money up and get a car first, but instead, he got into a relationship. He still is living with his ex and they are still on bad terms about sharing the car. His new girlfriend has not been in a relationship since 2007, and said the previous men she dated were no good. He told me to get you a woman that likes you for you and make sure she is simple. He also said if you find one good woman, you don’t need options. His ex told him during their last argument, that she wanted to be a kept woman. Some guys you can’t save sadly
History rarely moves in straight lines, but the effects of certain technologies have repeating patterns. They don’t just improve an existing process; they unlock entirely new scales of production, rearrange labor markets, and accelerate economic forces that were already gathering strength in the background. I'm going to show you three inventions, separated by more than two centuries, and see if you get the picture.
1793: Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
In 1793, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, a simple machine that separated the sticky seeds from cotton fibers. Before it, cleaning a single pound of lint by hand required hours of painstaking work. A hand-powered gin could produce roughly fifty pounds of clean cotton in a day, a leap of 50X in labor productivity.
Whitney actually hoped the invention might reduce the need for slave labor. The opposite happened. By making short-staple cotton economically viable, the gin transformed cotton into a massive cash crop. U.S. cotton production, which stood at only a few thousand bales...
