10 Oct 2022 8:30 am
Skans » 10 Oct 2022, 8:25 am » wrote: ↑ Most homesteaders didn't survive, primarily because the land they staked off was crappy land or didn't have adequate access to water, or didn't have sufficient resources to develop the land into arable land. The ones who died trying would have been better off as serfs to landlords who had the means to develop their land into fertile, lush, moistened land.
Even if that's true, they died free on their own land.
Anyway, forget rent seeking parasites for a minute. What about the other criticisms of capitalism in the OP? Can you even comment on those?