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and privilege the world over, a second equally well-proven path to the pot-o-gold in early America was the nurturing of connections with those in positions of power (Hum, maybe this applies to the present as well.) But it was not just any power that mattered in colonial times. The real money was quite literally in king-sized real estate handouts. What you think England, France, and Spain were fighting over in the New World, red rider? Billions of acres at zero cost to whichever royal court could claim and control the territory (and subsequently disperse it to ‘worthy’ court favorites). Combine pedigree and a personal grant of maybe 5 million acres (nice round number, don’t you think?) of Eastern North America from Kings Charles I and II of England and we’re talking not just garden variety riches, chump change really; we’re getting into Scrooge McDuck dynasty territory.
Thus, once upon a time, dear children, those kingly fellows in olde London Ibwne did grant
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