What you needed to dye fabrics before chemical engineering. You went into the mountains and gathered the ingredients you needed.pic.twitter.com/ckjRX9o1WX
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You bought them from dye merchants, who bought them from dye collectors. Specialization and markets long predate chemical engineering.
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I keep looking for the anti-market sentiment in the original tweet... Nope. Still not there.
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Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World
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Not always, my grandma still new the basics of dye coloring, my grandad could have made a wooden spatula from piece of wood with nothing but an axe (I was old enough to witness both)
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