Readit NewsThis was the best I could find as to its origins:
https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-thats-mighty-whi...
And so's the future - probably next century we'll be looked down upon as sad sacks of shit who didn't have the decency to get our weights into clean silicon.
> Here is my metaphor: your book is a pudding stuffed with apposite observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some. But it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envy.
The others would probably be GlobalFoundries, Micron, Microchip, and TI.
Grate stuff there.
The 1880s 6% on railroads is an interesting number, I didn't know it was that much.
Deleted Comment
Literacy was needed to read the Bible and operate machinery, and now we have videos for that. Only (some of) the video makers need to read, so they can raid the libraries for material.
If you read enough books, you'll reach "vote-for-Trump mental acumen" again, if nothing else just to rile up the semi-literates.
Haha. Liars. Less than one percent, tops.
I'd be interested to see something with more detail and citations. Or maybe even a rebuttal piece.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-top-countries-by-ann...