Quinn Slobodian
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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I think that it's actually helpful to find the closest analog to look at the era of westward expansion.
So the railroad barons really kind of set the stage, I think, for what became the successful model of American capitalism, which is the government says, we need a railroad and we will give to you private capitalists.
the right of access across this country.
And you can build it.
You can put freight on it.
You can build towns next to it.
You can charge passengers.
And then we, the government, get something out of that.
We get access for our troops.
We get a growing tax base, et cetera, et cetera.
That model of kind of cooperation and complementarity, you could say, is more like what gets us to the manufacturing moment.
And then there's all kinds of, of course, demand from the military, right?
Military.
Keynesianism is built on demand coming from the state for exactly those kind of heavy duty, high end manufactured objects like airplanes and Jeeps and ammunition.
So there's always been that back and forth.
And what's interesting is you can even bring that quite cleanly up into the era of the launch of the dot com era in the mid 1990s, because the Internet, as we now are all very familiar, is a product of technology.
military R&D.
It comes straight out of the military and state application of money to something that was originally a kind of research project, right?
I mean, it was for universities.
It wasn't for commercial applications.
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