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King C. Gillette  

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  • Widely praised or blamed as the entrepreneur who inaugurated throwaway products, as a utopian socialist reformer, King Camp Gillette (1855–1932) spent his life excoriating capitalism's inequalities and the inefficiencies of competition. Published a decade before the patent for disposable razor blades, Gillette's 1894 book The Human Drift dreamed up a vast hydropowered megalopolis that would consolidate U.S. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage; Gillette, King C.]

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