In 1881, a friend of Hiram Maxim, the American inventor, told him: "If you wanted to make a lot of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each other's throats with."

在1881年，一位朋友西贡一句格言：美国发明家，告诉他： “如果你想要可以大把大把地赚钱，发明的东西，这将使这些欧洲人削减对方的喉咙。

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Without worries about money, without a job, and with extra space in the garage to grow food and invent, these people forgot about the stock market, stopped borrowing money, even forgot how to shop — in short they stopped being American.

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