Re:The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land
by TheCoelacanth on Monday December 23, 2019 @10:56PM
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You're disregarding the extremely large number of people who were more or less forced to travel to the new world. Add up the slaves taken there, people sentenced to be sent there for crimes, people who had to leave their home country or starve and people who had to leave their home country or be murdered and you start to get a pretty large number.
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Re:The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land
by freehunter on Monday December 23, 2019 @11:58PM
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Exactly. A large chunk of the population was forced to American against their will, and a large chunk of the people who chose to go to America only survived because of the labor of the people who were forced to be there. Claiming success on the back of slave labor isn’t something that’s super popular these days.