could be, indeed. relatedly, I suspect that newspapers were always this garbage, but they still outperformed the other option of nothing (vis-a-vis events outside the personal and local spheres, where gossip was probably better?)
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Disbelieve. The personality selection required for frontier settlement filtered for a significantly less gibsy population at first.
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"gibsy" is also great
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Having taken 18th Century Restoration literature this is true. Mind you that era gave us the structures high plot and low plot we see in a lot of tv.
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I think the age can be better descríbed as venereal. Much more apt!
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My assumption that humans are, in general, absolutely this venal is a large part of why I default to assuming markets will work better than [insert alternative proposal here].
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Humans respond to their incentives. Give them the right incentives and they'll be damn good people. Make cheating profitable and . . . look around.
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