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RE: What do my friends know about 1918? Not much--but they have questions
In 1918 the first wave of globalization officially crashed and burned. Thanks to radio, steamships, canals and newspapers there was unprecedented free trade that WW1 and the Spanish flu outbreak ended. Besides the war and the pandemic, optimism about globalization is sinking into a quagmire just as rapidly in 2018 as it did in 1918.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, @newcastle!