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Re:What the Industrial Revolution Tells Us about the Future ... by DamnYuppie on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @02:46PM (#15178017)
Can you elaborate further on how the extermination of the natives was driven by industrialization. Having lived and traveled all over the west it is predominately, agrarian, large tracts given over for cattle. I believe their extermination had less to do with industrialization and more to do with taking the land.
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Re:What the Industrial Revolution Tells Us about the Future ... by digikata on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @03:02PM (#15178147)
I'm not pushing for any particular interpretation here, but that cattle process could be viewed as early industrialized animal production made possible by the railroad. Graze in open areas, drive a bunch a cattle to centralized markets for transport/slaughter.
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Re:What the Industrial Revolution Tells Us about the Future ... by eighthnate on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @12:15PM (#15184817)
> I believe their extermination had less to do with industrialization and more to do with taking the land.

Industrialization is what prompted and allwed ships to bring millions of europeans to the US. It's what allowed railroads to ship millions to the midwest and the west. And of course the desire for oil/resources and farmland/etc. Industrialization is what allowed our armies to wipe out and clear the natives west of the mississippi.

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