THE BOOK OF THE VIP
ADAM
Adam’s pen takes a handThe snowball effect of capitalism
Chapter 7
fOne of these new things will be the internal combustion engine,
2Which will make it possible to do all kinds of things that will lead to other brand-new things,
3And so on,
4And so forth,
5aUntil there will be gigantic factories that use engines to make power to drive gigantic machines to make more things in less time than you would ever believe possible,
6bWhich means that the factories will need gigantic amounts of coal to fuel the engines to make the power…
7And so forth,
8And so on,
9Which means that the engines will also be needed to power gigantic new transportation things,
10Called ctrains,
11dWhich will be able to move fast enough and far enough on steel tracks to provide enough coal to more gigantic factories than you would ever be able to imagine,
12Without standing on a chair, anyway,
13eSo that the factories will be able to make power to drive machines…
14fAnd so forth,
15gAnd so on,
16Which means that the cities where the factories have to be located so that they can be close enough to the trains so that they can have enough coal (and so forth) will need a lot more people living in them,
17hSo that there will be enough people living in the cities to run all the gigantic machines in all the gigantic factories,
18So that the gigantic factories can make enough new things in large enough numbers to create enough wealth,
19So that the people who use their capital to create wealth will want to build even more gigantic factories with even more gigantic machines,
20So that…
21Et cetera,
22And so forth.
23Is this interesting so far?
24Good.
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