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Secondo te perché uno scapperebbe in un “paese” da costruire interamente, senza strutture? E comunque è risaputo che gli indesiderati in Europa venivano spediti laggiù.
Io parlo del periodo iniziale, non degli immigrati che arrivano a Ellys Island.
…Ma la popolazione delle colonie britanniche d'oltre Atlantico fu inizialmente incrementata anche mediante l'invio coatto sul posto di gruppi di "indesiderabili" dall'Inghilterra: quest'ultima cioè approfittò della necessità di braccia lavorative da parte delle sue colonie americane per liberarsi a più riprese di centinaia di poveri d'infimo livello e di condannati per crimini (19/13).


l' America è destinata al collasso .....
America Is Headed Toward Collapse
History suggests how to stave it off.
By Peter Turchin
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America Is Headed Toward Collapse
History suggests how to stave it off.
By Peter Turchin
An illustration of the U.S. Capitol with cracks in it
Photo-illustration by Alex Cochran. Source: Getty.
June 2, 2023
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How has America slid into its current age of discord? Why has our trust in institutions collapsed, and why have our democratic norms unraveled?
All human societies experience recurrent waves of political crisis, such as the one we face today. My research team built a database of hundreds of societies across 10,000 years to try to find out what causes them. We examined dozens of variables, including population numbers, measures of well-being, forms of governance, and the frequency with which rulers are overthrown. We found that the precise mix of events that leads to crisis varies, but two drivers of instability loom large. The first is popular immiseration—when the economic fortunes of broad swaths of a population decline. The second, and more significant, is elite overproduction—when a society produces too many superrich and ultra-educated people, and not enough elite positions to satisfy their ambitions.
These forces have played a key role in our current crisis. In the past 50 years, despite overall economic growth, the quality of life for most Americans has declined. The wealthy have become wealthier, while the incomes and wages of the median American family have stagnated. As a result, our social pyramid has become top-heavy. At the same time, the U.S. began overproducing graduates with advanced degrees. More and more people aspiring to positions of power began fighting over a relatively fixed number of spots. The competition among them has corroded the social norms and institutions that govern society.
The U.S. has gone through this twice before. The first time ended in civil war. But the second led to a period of unusually broad-based prosperity. Both offer lessons about today’s dysfunction and, more important, how to fix it.
To understand the root causes of the current crisis, let’s start by looking at how the number of über-wealthy Americans has grown. Back in 1983, 66,000 American households were worth at least $10 million. That may sound like a lot, but by 2019, controlling for inflation, the number had increased tenfold. A similar, if smaller, upsurge happened lower on the food chain. The number of households worth $5 million or more increased sevenfold, and the number of mere millionaires went up fourfold.
The cover of Peter Turchin's End Times
This article has been adapted from Turchin’s forthcoming book.
On its surface, having more wealthy people doesn’t sound like such a bad thing. But at whose expense did elites’ wealth swell in recent years?
Starting in the 1970s, although the overall economy continued to grow, the share of that growth going to average workers began to shrink, and real wages leveled off. (It’s no coincidence that Americans’ average height—a useful proxy for well-being, economic and otherwise—stopped increasing around then too, even as average heights in much of Europe continued climbing.) By 2010, the relative wage (wage divided by GDP per capita) of an unskilled worker had nearly halved compared with mid-century. For the 64 percent of Americans who didn’t have a four-year college degree, real wages shrank in the 40 years before 2016.(continua)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...conomy/674260/


Certamente, il sogno americano non è quello di stare comodi a casuccia ma accetta di stare scomodi per strada pur di raggiungere i propri obiettivi. Il termine comodità quì ha un valore relativo perchè in un letto si sta più comodi che per strada, ma qualcuno potrebbe obbiettare che i beni essenziali non sono comodità. L'obiezione sarebbe comunque ininfluente perchè il discorso verte sulle rinunce che un individuo è disposto a fare per raggiungere i propri obbiettivi e non su cosa è da considerare "livello minimo" per poter essere definito comodità
Far ragionare un idiota non è impossibile, è inutile


Far ragionare un idiota non è impossibile, è inutile