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> If you want to live in a libertarian fantasy world with no safety net, you are free to create one, and try to attract citizens to your country. For better or
by cvwright 8y ago
> If you want to live in a libertarian fantasy world with no safety net, you are free to create one, and try to attract citizens to your country.
For better or worse, you just described the early industrial United States. And people flocked from all over the world to come to it.
- AngryData 8y agoThat might a lot to do with the highly available and relatively untapped resources and cheap land. Britain was more industrialized and progressing faster than the US at the time, but only received a fraction of the amount of immigration, but it was also highly settled with much more expensive land and most resources already claimed/owned and being tapped to fuel their industrialization.