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Oh my. See the Wikipedia page. [1] To loosely summarize, he was kind of a reverse-Musk; widely thought a fool, he still kept pulling off amazing business deals
by mgsouth 4y ago
Oh my. See the Wikipedia page. [1] To loosely summarize, he was kind of a reverse-Musk; widely thought a fool, he still kept pulling off amazing business deals [2]. His writing seems to be a kind of cranky 18th-century GPT-3. [3]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter
[2] Example: "He was advised to send bed warmers—used to heat beds in the cold New England winters—for resale in the West Indies, a tropical area. This advice was a deliberate ploy by rivals to bankrupt him. His ship's captain sold them as ladles to the local molasses industry and made a handsome profit."
[3] "To mankind at Large the time is Com at Last the grat day of Regoising what is that why I will tell you thous three kings is Rased Rased you meane should know Rased on the first Royal Arch in the world olmost Not quite but very hiw up upon so thay are good mark to be scene so the womans Lik to see the frount and all people Loves to see them as the quakers will Com and peape slyly and feele glad and say houe the doue frind..."