Risk Takers and Law Breakers: A Story About the Seeding of a Nation and the Decay of the Supplier Over 300 Years

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America was systematically seeded with Europe's most adventurous, innovative, and independent-minded citizens through both forced transportation (convicts) and voluntary migration. This created a population with higher average risk tolerance, individualism, and comfort with disruption. Meanwhile, Europe retained more of those who valued security, stability, and social harmony. This "great sorting" of human temperament through migration helped sh...