Re:The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land
by fnord77 on Monday December 23, 2019 @07:41PM
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> That's a bit of an overstatement.
After reading few books from the period and later ones by Nathaniel Hawthorne, I don't think so.
> I expect if that were true, people wouldn't have kept on coming.
The people coming could have incomplete or incorrect information. Communication was slow back then. Separating fact from falsehoods about the New World would have been a crapshoot at best.
Even an entirely country got it wrong. Scotland bankrupted itself on the Darien scheme.
After reading few books from the period and later ones by Nathaniel Hawthorne, I don't think so.
> I expect if that were true, people wouldn't have kept on coming.
The people coming could have incomplete or incorrect information. Communication was slow back then. Separating fact from falsehoods about the New World would have been a crapshoot at best.
Even an entirely country got it wrong. Scotland bankrupted itself on the Darien scheme.