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
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2/ In 1500 AD where could an English serf go? In 500 AD where could a Roman plebe go? In 1,000 BC where could a Babylonian tenant farmer go? Occasionally folks would light out for the borders, but there were not vast reserves of unclaimed fertile land, and >>>
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Replying to @MorlockP
I dunno, the first example that came to my mind was Iceland, in which sizable numbers of Vikings did precisely what you describe ca. 850 AD.
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Replying to @TheClarksTale
gosh, some day I hope to read more about the establishment of the Icelandic Free State ... maybe even write a science fiction novel based on it
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Replying to @MorlockP
I know you know about it, I'm just surprised you left it out of your examples.
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Replying to @TheClarksTale
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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Replying to @MorlockP
I know, but you then reduced it to 150 years of US history, then further to 30 years.
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Replying to @TheClarksTale
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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refutes the original "ThE EntIRe TiMe!!1!!"
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