We need new countries !
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We need new countries !
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#2> I have a hypothesis, that the most life-capable beings are those, who are able to cope with risk and fear, cross the line of comfort zone, and explore new unknown areas. In this manner, America inherited the best ones in the world, and I think this is one of the reasons why America is the wealthiest country, according to several measurements.
Uh, this is the first time I have heard that Americans are somehow genetically or racially superior thanks to their national founding myth. Certainly sounds like a similar theory to a certain other, now hugely discredited political outlook I won't mention.
It seems to lack explanatory power - why are there so many other countries composed of the descendents of migrants that are not as wealthy? Why are there countries composed mostly of lumpen aboriginals and left-behinds that are even wealthier per-capita?
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#3by the time i hovered your fancy kudos button and realized i had just given an "unretractable" kudo by accident I had lost all interest in what you have to say about countries...
wonderful minimalism...
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#4On the contrary, we need fewer countries, fewer borders and more decentralization.
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#5No, we don't need any of these, this will means blood.
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#6> I have a hypothesis, that the most life-capable beings are those, who are able to cope with risk and fear, cross the line of comfort zone, and explore new unknown areas. In this manner, America inherited the best ones in the world, and I think this is one of the reasons why America is the wealthiest country, according to several measurements. Uh, this is the first time I have heard that Americans are somehow geneti…
It's nothing to do with genetics. It's that people who would board a wooden ship to head to head off into the unknown were predisposed towards taking calculated risks. Some of that will have been passed down to their kids, not genetically but how they were raised and educated. It was simply a much bigger gamble to head across the Atlantic than it was to cross the English Channel.
You still see this today, altho' to a less extent because the risks are much less. Anyone who is working or has moved overseas is likely to be among the most ambitious of their peer group from back home.
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#7Even disregard of how it could ever happens, if the scenario happens, at best, we will realize that people don't like to pay tax, nor doing what they don't want. And then we will "innovate" "law", and some other annoying professions to interpret such innovation, and some other to do boring book keeping to make sure that people aren't trying to do funny things, and then the circle comes full around.
At worst, we're gonna starve because JS framework is not edible.
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#8> I have a hypothesis, that the most life-capable beings are those, who are able to cope with risk and fear, cross the line of comfort zone, and explore new unknown areas. In this manner, America inherited the best ones in the world, and I think this is one of the reasons why America is the wealthiest country, according to several measurements. Uh, this is the first time I have heard that Americans are somehow geneti…
It's nothing to do with genetics. It's that people who would board a wooden ship to head to head off into the unknown were predisposed towards taking calculated risks. Some of that will have been passed down to their kids, not genetically but how they were raised and educated. It was simply a much bigger gamble to head across the Atlantic than it was to cross the English Channel. You still see this today, altho' to a…
> Anyone who is working or has moved overseas is likely to be among the most ambitious of their peer group from back home.
Also likely to be from a wealthy or otherwise privileged background: wealth offers opportunity and permits risk-taking.
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#9> I have a hypothesis, that the most life-capable beings are those, who are able to cope with risk and fear, cross the line of comfort zone, and explore new unknown areas. In this manner, America inherited the best ones in the world, and I think this is one of the reasons why America is the wealthiest country, according to several measurements. Uh, this is the first time I have heard that Americans are somehow geneti…
I don't think he was trying to get at race or genetics, but rather attitude. I wouldn't say it 'inherited', but the 'culture' was one of people willing to get rid of their old stable lives for one of 'unlimited' opportunity, freedom, risk and adventure.
Whether or not that attitude is actually still pervasive or whether it's a nice story we tell ourselves is debatable, but it was true of the europeans that founded the country.
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#10Come on, how can such low quality stuff get on hacker news? The claim that American immigrants have been the best people of the world is a joke. The author also can't even set punctuation correctly.
It also reads like a libertarian pipe-dream.