Happy Thanksgiving

HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Are you excited?

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What are you planning to do for Thanksgiving?

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What is your favorite thing to eat for Thanksgiving?

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Accoring to John Stossel, the Pilgrims almost starved because

• people maintained their own property and didn’t care enough about others

• collective farming and distribution based on need caused people to be less responsible

• Native Americans raided the Pilgrims’ food storehouses

• poor weather conditions led to less food being produced

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The Tragedy of the Commons results from people

• acting upon their own interests with shared resources

• sharing responsibly and controlling their desire for more food

• facing natural disasters

• being charitable and giving what they own to others who need it more

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In the Pilgrims’ shared resource system, the “free rider problem” was that some Pilgrims

• picked crops before they were ready

• preferred to trade rather than hunt

• overworked the land, thus ruining it

• took advantage by avoiding work

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William Bradford, governor of the Plymouth Colony, decided to try a system of private property, which

• resulted in even more death and starvation, until the Native Americans stepped in to help

• was successful because it encouraged everyone to work

• allowed some people to work less than others yet receive the same amount of resources

• assigned specific crops for people to grow, which they all shared at harvest time

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The main point of this video is that

• people need to stop being selfish and share what they have with others

• people are lazy and need a strong leader to make them work

• when the Pilgrims ran out of food, they relied on the Native Americans to feed them

• incentives, such as allowing people to keep what they produce, matter