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  1. Dec 2020
    1. The thirst for new farmland grew even more intense after the invention of the cotton gin in the early 1790s.

      !: This proves how once an person creates a product based off of a product that was already made, they expect profit from it and the product grows in higher demand which can cause scarcity of materials needed to provide what they want to sell which can affect the amount of money they receive.

    2. cataloging the dominant and recessive traits” that have been passed down to us,

      HANDS UP EMOJI: This reminds me of social darwinism where citizens want people with the best genes and best abilities to collide, purposely leaving the ones opposite of this expectation are left with close to no opportunities to bring themselves up.

    3. Countries like Indonesia (4.1) and Portugal (3) have strong rules about severance pay and reasons for dismissal.

      ?: I wonder how these rules came into play? What made these countries believe that this was a fair rule to American workers?

    4. Given the choice between modernity and barbarism, prosperity and poverty, lawfulness and cruelty, democracy and totalitarianism, America chose all of the above.

      HANDS UP EMOJI: This made me realize how these characteristics America holds all cancel each other out, which may be the reason as to why America has such unclear morals, where they want to use violence on nonwhite people to gain mass supplies of land and labor.

    5. $13.50 a pill, but in Shkreli’s hands, the price quickly increased by a factor of 56, to $750 a pill.

      ! - This increase in price may be so that because they living in a capitalist society where the public does not want middle/ low class citizens to have access to everything.