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I'm not trying to get strung out on feudalism, any more than football. I'm just pointing out that after 1000 years of sociopolitical environment of social/power stratification and limited social mobility, you get a totally different risk tolerance/government importance/social perspective than you get in a country without a long historical perspective and long, relatively recent, open frontier period. Give us another 1000 years and we'll be just like Europe....(Unless we get cheap space travel, and then it'll be the old West all over again.)
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