It wasn't the first time this had happened, surely, but the destruction was so complete in 1918 that it set the cultural pattern for countless disillusionments to come.

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We showed how that has been obscured by changing demographics and cultural factors, and how the resulting pattern of incomes closely reflected productivity and the productive performance of different workers.

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