1/ while I agree w the ethos expressed here, the actual facts are entirely wrong. For the vast majority of human history there has NOT been a frontier that normal people could get to, physically, economically, or legally ...and if they could, it would be even worse than staying https://t.co/fsEy9ntOEL
the original post was "for all of human history, this has been an option" and I'm refuting that by pointing out that for most of the time things are in equilibria and there have been very very few eras of disequilibria
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I know, but you then reduced it to 150 years of US history, then further to 30 years.
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how long was the age of settlement in Iceland? around 50 years, right? and once that's over, Iceland is well settled and people feud all the time, and you get killed it doesn't matter if the frontier was open for 150 + 150 = 300 years, or 50, or 1.2 any of those answers >>>
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