An interesting counterfactual history. Most historians won’t go there. Unfortunately his thesis doesn’t hold water. For example, advertising. That’s competition between roads. The settlers would have come without rails and ads. Ads simply did not create demand. There are numerous examples of settlement before rails. Any gov that tried to stop it wouldn’t be in power 90 days later. Did they speed up? Absolutely. With Q&A, it’s not that hard to mic it up. You can tell many in academia haven’t ever held a real job. Like White, that gets in the way of understanding things like land policy and how people actually lived. When one describes the HA as a “subsidy” one clearly doesn’t understand the capital investment of work and material invested to see that process through to patent. A great example of empathetic disconnect. Next up is the 86-87 Die Up. The cattle business didn’t suddenly stop afterwards. Poof. Migration. Many people migrated to areas with rails in wagons. Many. Another disconnect. They drove stock and carried the material culture needed. Some used both, traveling by wagons in family groups and shipping material. One tech doesn’t supplant another overnight. They’ll need those wagons and animals when they get there prof because there’s work to be done. I’d suggest a job, maybe in lawn care or landscaping for a year. Consider it an ‘emersion experience.’
An interesting counterfactual history. Most historians won’t go there. Unfortunately his thesis doesn’t hold water. For example, advertising. That’s competition between roads. The settlers would have come without rails and ads. Ads simply did not create demand. There are numerous examples of settlement before rails. Any gov that tried to stop it wouldn’t be in power 90 days later. Did they speed up? Absolutely.
With Q&A, it’s not that hard to mic it up. You can tell many in academia haven’t ever held a real job. Like White, that gets in the way of understanding things like land policy and how people actually lived. When one describes the HA as a “subsidy” one clearly doesn’t understand the capital investment of work and material invested to see that process through to patent. A great example of empathetic disconnect.
Next up is the 86-87 Die Up. The cattle business didn’t suddenly stop afterwards. Poof.
Migration. Many people migrated to areas with rails in wagons. Many. Another disconnect. They drove stock and carried the material culture needed. Some used both, traveling by wagons in family groups and shipping material.
One tech doesn’t supplant another overnight. They’ll need those wagons and animals when they get there prof because there’s work to be done.
I’d suggest a job, maybe in lawn care or landscaping for a year. Consider it an ‘emersion experience.’