Jacob Fugger might disagree...
Still, a very interesting read.
Josiah Wedgwood
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Re: Josiah Wedgwood
#12This article reads a bit too triumphal for my tastes. Factory towns and globalized industrialization have a dark side. Certainly this story can’t all be roses?
Re: Josiah Wedgwood
#13This article reads a bit too triumphal for my tastes. Factory towns and globalized industrialization have a dark side. Certainly this story can’t all be roses?
Do you hold tea in your mouth until it tastes bad, too? Things have good and bad sides. Be mindful of each on its own time.
Re: Josiah Wedgwood
#14This article reads a bit too triumphal for my tastes. Factory towns and globalized industrialization have a dark side. Certainly this story can’t all be roses?
Do you hold tea in your mouth until it tastes bad, too? Things have good and bad sides. Be mindful of each on its own time.
Telling other people not to share their opinions on HN is a dick move.
Re: Josiah Wedgwood
#15Interesting they didn't mention that Charles Darwin was his grandson. The pottery business funded Darwin's voyage on the Beagle.
I don’t get it... Why it is interesting they didn’t mention it?
Re: Josiah Wedgwood
#16Interesting they didn't mention that Charles Darwin was his grandson. The pottery business funded Darwin's voyage on the Beagle.
Fascinating. I've always assumed that the expeditions were funded by patrons. That never really seemed right to be though, because Charles Darwin wasn't very sociable IIRC.
Re: Josiah Wedgwood
#17Nice article, but I find it strange that not once was the gorilla in the room mentioned- China. Wedgwood was working in a world that had been re-shaped by Chinese export porcelain, one of the first examples of a truly global product and marketing "brand". Chinese porcelain was of extremely high quality (some of it unrivaled even today), technologically advanced, culturally complex, and cherished by the European nobil…
>European potters like Wedgwood were desperately trying to re-create the purity and beauty of the Chinese product.
Oh, how the pottery turntable turns.
>Chinese manufacturers like Huawei were desperately trying to re-create the purity and beauty of the American product.
Re: Josiah Wedgwood
#18Interesting they didn't mention that Charles Darwin was his grandson. The pottery business funded Darwin's voyage on the Beagle.
I don’t get it... Why it is interesting they didn’t mention it?
"Interesting that" is just a figure of speech that people use to introduce information weakly related to OP.
Re: Josiah Wedgwood
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t get it... Why it is interesting they didn’t mention it?
"Interesting that" is just a figure of speech that people use to introduce information weakly related to OP.
Haha right but it’s interesting that Charles Darwin was the grandson. It isn’t interesting that they didn’t mention it. Sorry for perpetuating meta discussion.
Re: Josiah Wedgwood
#20i am a potter and i approve of this article :-)