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		SamReidHughes on Sept 7, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares... The USA just had a lot of land and a low population. America already had a better quality of life than Europe in the 1700's.

ever1 on Sept 7, 2019 [–]

source ?

SamReidHughes on Sept 8, 2019 | [–]

Well you might ask why people kept going on ships across the ocean if the quality of life was worse.

A randomly googled source is https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/news-wires-white-papers... , which casually mentions a bunch of relevant numbers.

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