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		GFK_of_xmaspast on Sept 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: China's Island Factory – New islands being made in... "To the west if you found a piece of land and lived there for 100 years, it's yours - that's how the US was founded after all" You, uh, do realize that every piece of land in the US was found first by people who were already living there?

mikeash on Sept 9, 2014 | [–]

That's the point he's making: if you occupy land for a century or so, we tend to consider it yours, regardless of what happened prior.

scarmig on Sept 9, 2014 | | [–]

Technically speaking, those same people didn't live there too long once colonizers and the US government arrived.

Dylan16807 on Sept 9, 2014 | [–]

Multiple people can find something.

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