Re: "Drakon" by S. M. Stirling

On 2024-06-19, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:

On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:47:10 -0700, Robert Woodward
<robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:
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No, I meant Americans. The Draka had to run rampant over a larger area
with drastically fewer people than USA did and had in the 19th century.
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S. M. Stirling seems to disagree with you about the Domination of
Africa.  Remember, the Domination was all about the enslavement of every
other human on Earth for the purposes of the Draka.

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Since I am utterly unconvinced in the plausibility of the timeline he
offered on how this was done; I don't care about his opinion on the
matter. I am speaking of abrupt un-suspension of willing suspension of
disbelief.

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No question I also thought a fair bit of "handwavium" was required to
set up what turned out to be a pretty good tale.
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And George Washington was one of the richest people on the planet in the
middle 1700s.  He was 3% of the economy of the USA.  I suspect that he
could have raised the funds to exile the Loyalists to any place that he
wanted to.  He chose Canada for most of them.

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Where is your source for the extent of George Washington's wealth? I
don't believe it. I don't think he was even 3% of Virgina's economy.

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That does seem like an impressive stat which I wouldn't accept without
a readily available cite.

Indeed.  According to Wikipedia, his estate was equivalent to 0.19% of
the gross domestic product, so he was rich. But that's his wealth, not
his income ("3% of the economy" is a claim of income.)  His wealth was
all in property, he tended to be quite cash-poor, without a high income.

Chris