A friend sent a link to this 12-minute long video collection of amazing little machines that are part of a collection of Rube Goldberg-like inventions. Rube Goldberg was Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, sculptor, author and inventor. However, while most machines make difficult tasks simple, Goldberg's inventions made simple tasks amazingly complex. So this eventually led to the use of Rube Goldberg's name by the media to denote a tremendously complex program, system or set of rules such as our "Rube Goldberg-like tax system". Goldberg's inventions act as a unique commentary on life's complexities.
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