Zeb Larson on Nostr: You can extend this logic even further. You have to judge the settlement of the ...
You can extend this logic even further. You have to judge the settlement of the "frontier" in the United States weighing the fact that there was a hell of a lot of fraud and that it wouldn't have been feasible at all without railroad construction -- much of which was itself a product of graft, and which set off bitter fights in subsequent decades because those who relied on them felt ripped off.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/21/space-isnt-the-final-frontier/Published at
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