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It’s time for Americans to embrace small cars (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

The government was literally giving away land under the homestead act 100 years before that. You could just go stick some stakes in the ground and that was your 100+ acres, so long as you produced something with the land.