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The US went from subsistence farming in 1800 to superpower a hundred years later. Nearly the entire population that made up the US arrived penniless, and moved
by skookumchuck 8y ago
The US went from subsistence farming in 1800 to superpower a hundred years later. Nearly the entire population that made up the US arrived penniless, and moved up into the middle class and higher.
To say that American capitalism somehow "caused" poverty is contrary to about every statistic.
- lasagnaphil 8y agoAnd those people were able to rise by hurting the natives originally living there... no free lunch theorem strikes again
- skookumchuck 8y agoThe same thing happened to the South American natives, but the immigrants there did not rise. Now they want to move north to the US. There's something different about the US - capitalism.