The missing branch in every “self-made” story is people.

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The missing branch in every “self-made” story is people.

Federal statistician John Shaw Billings encouraged mechanized tabulation.

Former Census employee Herman Hollerith built the machine.

Census workers tested it by processing 62,947,714 human records.

That public knowledge became a private company—then CTR—then IBM.

The humans did not disappear.

Only their contribution disappeared from the origin story. 🧾

#FollowTheMoney

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