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The US has also basically had unrestricted capital accumulation barely interrupted by war / mass societal reorganization (only the high tax rates around WWII an
by opportune 7y ago
The US has also basically had unrestricted capital accumulation barely interrupted by war / mass societal reorganization (only the high tax rates around WWII and abolition of slavery) for over two centuries. Now that there is no more frontier there’s no more land that is both cheap/free and desirable