Your description of America growing to a world power from early “open” boarder policies lacks context.
Pre revolution there was oftentimes extreme expense and hardship involved with immigrating to the USA, which often lead to indentured servitude to those whom paid for others way, slavery, or privately funded colonies bringing in people to farm and work the land- ie due to need.
There was actually very little immigration for the first 50+ years of the country’s history. Remember, it was VERY difficult to cross the ocean when this country was founded. Much more difficult to move around the world then compared to even the poorest of today’s migrants.
In the mid 1800s, a large influx of citizens were naturalized due to the Mexican American war, and the California gold rush. But at this point still greater than 90% of the citizenry was native born, as a majority of pre revolutionary immigrant citizens had passed.
Post-1850 manifest destiny and the expansion of the country westward demanded an increase in population to settle the American west, which began the major wave of immigration we all typically think of when we think of immigration history. But it really wasn’t even until 1880 with steam powered ships that immigration really began to grow quickly.
Your comment regarding 1921 is simply false. Immigration law began post civil war in 1875 when the Supreme Court deemed immigration federal jurisdiction, which lead to the Asian exclusion act being passed that same year.
Total Amish population is 350k even at 100% growth rate for 5 generations, that population would sit at less then 12 million. It would take another 12 generations or 300 years for that population to surpass 1 billion people, assuming consistent growth of 100%
The issue is that an agrarian lifestyle does not scale to those numbers. So the likelihood of that outcome is low to non existent.
Also, the Amish are not independent of electricity. They actually do produce and use electricity, so your entire comment is invalid anyways.
Desperately dumb is more like it.
You know how you get 10,000 sats zapped your way? Go out and do some work. Check out @bitcoin.rocks and go slap some stickers for a real payout.
Proof of work is more than just a saying, it’s a lifestyle. If you need sats, go out and do something, dont fall for engagement farming tactics because nothing in this world worth anything is free.
Yah locals knowledgeable in helping around the world now helping in their own community. Give em a good chunk.
There’s also individual go fund mes for individual families if you want to spread around a bunch of micro donations https://www.gofundme.com/c/act/hurricane-helene
There’s aid for North Carolina, it just isn’t gonna come from the feds.
Americans helping Americans. Neighbors helping neighbors. That’s where the soul of America lives, and this tragedy will help us realize that again.
Heard these reports too, not sure how valid they, but local sheriffs are letting people help, and helpers are going around helping.
Power companies are out fixing the power, lots of debris is already removed, Florida is sending their DOT to help, states helping states, counties helping volunteers, things are already healing. ❤️🩹
It’s just the feds that are making issues, because they’re incompetent with the clowns in charge.
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