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Someone who turned raw materials into raw power, then called it progress.
means A person who owns or runs large-scale industrial enterprises — factories, mills, mines — and profits from their output.
from Built from 'industry' (Latin industria, meaning diligence or busy effort) plus the agent-ish suffix '-ist.' 'Industry' had meant hard work in general for centuries before it narrowed, in the age of factories and machines, to mean manufacturing itself. 'Industrialist' followed that same narrowing in the 1800s, naming the men who owned the mills rather than the ones sweating inside them.
- core skill
- Converting coal, labor, and risk into empires
- golden age
- 19th century robber barons, steel and rail
- legacy move
- Build factories first, apologize to history later
- modern form
- Now wears hoodies, calls it disruption