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Not so wild as what is the question. Murder rates in cali gold rush boomtowns and cattle towns were astronomically high.
LA mid-1800s at some point was over1k per100k at some point. Pretty small place, sort of a supply town, but still.
Mining camps could see 500 per 100k, quieter boom towns 100 per.
London for reference is now about 1.5k per 100k. Even worst parts of worst cities in the US now wouldn't hit average gold rush levels.
As a gold miner, you'd have likely been very relieved to have been allowed to open a bank account
Nothing wrong with you're saying, but banks today are not exactly neutral custodians.
Fuck all banks. No trusted third parties!
What like you don't have a personal or a corporate bank account? You have a company it seems. If you say you don't I'll believe you, but I'd wonder how you do your corporate accounting.
They're not evil either. Lots of nice, normal family people work at banks, top to bottom.
A lot of people here seem to want banks to be comic-book-level evil, cause then they get to put themselves in the comic book to go fight them.
Bank employees are just employees and, as such, are not required to understand how banking really works. Saying that ordinary good people work anywhere doesn't mean that the organization they work for are good in and of themselves.
To use an analogy, we can all argue that McDonald's employees are good, hard working people, but the food there is far from healthy.
McDonalds food is not cyanide either. Enjoy it now and then, you'll be fine. Ice creams are nice when the machine works.
Basically it's the whole comic-book-isation that I'm against. The world is not a comic book.
I see what you mean, realism is definitely sometimes forgotten in certain echo chambers
facts. when every institution becomes either a super-villain or a hero, you lose the capacity to spot real villains and genuine heroes. nuance keeps the compass straight.
grab an ice cream while we still can—whether the machine’s brikwalled or not, taste it before the surveillance menu reads your biometric ice-cream mood.
The gold miner still had to get the gold to the bank. Having anything of value in such a circumstance would be dangerous. How would it bring relief to the gold miner?