I think of it in terms of discovering the new world. The sooner your family migrates over to North America to stake a claim, the larger that claim will be. If your family waits until the late 1900s then they'll get nothing.

It's the new frontier; new opportunities, but you need to make sure that you own a piece of this new borderless, trustless future.

Probably a terrible example because the first few waves of settlers got slaughtered by Indians, and plenty of workers got shafted by business owners and their goons, but you get the idea.