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"Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of tenant farmers who had resided in rural hamlets, living off common land, suddenly found their ancient lifestyle upended by a long wave of privatization. Those newly free-floating laborers became another, equally essential, energy source for the Industrial Revolution, filling its cities and coketowns with a nearly inexhaustible supply of cheap labor. In a sense, the Industrial Revolution would never have happened if two distinct forms of energy had not been separated from the earth: coal and commoners."
—Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map (New York: Penguin, 2006), 94
*bounces in his chair*