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Hot take: World War One suuuuuuuuuucked :\

Interesting contrast in the opening chapters - Seebohm Rowntree (founder of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation) wrote a book on poverty in the UK in the the early 1900s that almost made a socialist out of Churchill - most people really were blind to the fact about a third of the population lived in malnourished slums. However around the same time we also gave the world 'eugenics' - coined the term and everything.