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The Rise and Fall of Laudanum: The Drug That Built The Gilded Age

This is the untold story of America's first opioid crisis—and how Purdue Pharma copied the exact same playbook 120 years later. The corporate tactics, the targeting of women, the media manipulation, the blocked regulations. Every strategy that created the modern opioid epidemic was perfected in the Gilded Age, which was the period from about the late 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction era and the Progressive Era.

 
Apparently, their schools are producing lots of engineers.
Yeah, doesn’t seem to be coming from our country lately. The kids all want to be Youtube stars. Kudos to them though. Never really thought about challenges of huge structures in large deserts. Just as impressive as large water bridges.
 
China produces about 10x the engineers that the U.S. does, Russia about 4x. US produces Social Science majors…Woo Hoo.
 

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