Can I observe that people intend to be critical of gold rushes and them being extractive but have instead decided to hate shovels?
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"Selling shovels" also encodes a distaste for "shovel sellers got rich while the 49ers largely did not", which does not analogize to present
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The story goes that 49ers were largely naive yeomen capitalists of the sort that American lore largely celebrates, vs crass commercializers
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@patio11 haha this is the perfect rephrase of the debateThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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