Comments on: Why go to Latin America and be a serf, when you could go to the United States and be a free land-owning man? https://www.isegoria.net/2025/04/why-go-to-latin-america-and-be-a-serf-when-you-could-go-to-the-united-states-and-be-a-free-land-owning-man/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 21 May 2026 16:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: I.M. Nobody https://www.isegoria.net/2025/04/why-go-to-latin-america-and-be-a-serf-when-you-could-go-to-the-united-states-and-be-a-free-land-owning-man/comment-page-1/#comment-3751963 I.M. Nobody Thu, 03 Apr 2025 03:23:08 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=52808#comment-3751963 “If you were a poor man from Germany, Scandinavia, or Italy, why go to Latin America and be a serf, when you could go to the United States and be a free land-owning man?”

Things change a lot. I don”t know any country where people are more slave than the USA. Maybe Canada or North Europe.

]]> By: Michael van der Riet https://www.isegoria.net/2025/04/why-go-to-latin-america-and-be-a-serf-when-you-could-go-to-the-united-states-and-be-a-free-land-owning-man/comment-page-1/#comment-3751801 Michael van der Riet Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:32:09 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=52808#comment-3751801 For a book published ten years ago, this chapter has held up surprisingly well. In over a century, America has only played away games.

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