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But that European system was built long after the US became independent?
by lordnacho 5y ago
But that European system was built long after the US became independent?
- gambiting 5y agoYeah. The truth is literally the exact opposite of what they said - early puritan settlers left for America specifically because they wanted to be controlling and overbearing and the European states they set off from were less and less welcoming to this kind of thing.
- foobarian 5y agoPerhaps. I contend that the main waves of immigration in the 18-20th centuries consisted of opportunists well above average.
- ajmadesc 5y agoBut Americans aren't educated outside of stem > And it shows
- viro 5y agowhat's the homeless rate in Sweden ? Netherlands? France? I'll leave out Germany since thats a little unfair.
- foobarian 5y agoThere is more to it than the post-war social-democratic systems in Western Europe. Going back centuries there was never a way to up and move to an uncontrolled space and start anew like on the American continent. The entire European continent was under tight control by whatever authority there was whether church or feudal, with restrictions on movement, residence, and labor.