Tactic Of The Day: Supplement’s vs Sustenance Something I often think back to in history is the idea that literacy was not really obtainable for most people. As you are sitting reading this article there was a time in history and even up to relatively recent history where small percentages of populations could read. A major contributor to this change was the invention of the printing press in 1440. After this invention the amount of books able to be made sky rocketed and this gave more opportunity for literacy and it was not a small group of elites withholding information. […]