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Because it's cheaper to live on a f-ed up half-built construction site of a planet than it is to fight with entrenched interests on earth. Same reason North Am
by potato3732842 1y ago
Because it's cheaper to live on a f-ed up half-built construction site of a planet than it is to fight with entrenched interests on earth.
Same reason North America got colonized by religious extremists and weirdos.
- pbmonster 1y agoThe free, abundant land choke full of natural resources was probably more important.
- techdmn 1y agoOnly free if you discount the costs involved in carrying out genocide against the existing inhabitants. But your point stands, that cost was frequently born by the government, so from the perspective of individual settlers it was often free.
- potato3732842 1y ago> But your point stands, that cost was frequently born by the government, Who paid this government?
- ambicapter 1y agoThere was plenty of death and danger involved in colonizing a foreign land you've never been to with 16th-18th century era technology.