Post #1511519

2026-01-24 16:08 UTC

> IIRC [You don't recall correctly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed#Life), and I have no idea where you got that information. Appleseed actually was a successful businessman who bought some land, owning about 1200 acres (~5 km^2^), but by all accounts he was a genuinely good person, and I've never heard what you're saying (and not substantiating) that he did.

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@papalonian@lemmy.world 2026-01-24 16:19

Ah but you see, their comment has the message of "capitalism bad", so it doesn't really matter if what they wrote is true.

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@FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 2026-01-24 16:18

I thought he made his name by basically being a consultant and helping others plant their trees. The law at the time was you had to grow X number of apple trees and the land was yours. That was because apple trees take multiple years to grow so it proved you were taking care of the land for multiple years.

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@GhostPain@lemmy.world 2026-01-24 16:39

Dude, who knows where I saw it but Honest Opinion says he's a useful idiot and you're saying he's a successful businessman who bought land, completely ignoring the whole homestead laws of the day. I'm too old and cynical to buy "he was a good person" in the US during that time frame. Sorry, not gonna happen.

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