Kyle 🌹I just realized that the American vision of freedom from the wage system is for everyone to be their own small business owner. Instead of having solidarity, and developing an equitable society, we are all autonomous competitors and petty tyrants. That's the American vision of a free and equal society. An endless hell of searching for customers and competing with each other, each maximizing their own power and wealth, where growth is constant and explosive.
Aslan French@kcnightfang While I agree that's the reality of the situation, I think the framework that people like TJ and Paine were working from was admirable. Time goes on and we learn that good intentions don't make true ideas.
@thedonquixotic Totally. They were working from a pre-industial, subsistence agricultural perspective. Well, not TJ as much. The yeoman farmer makes sense when you can grow your own food, but these days, that vision has been warped into the small business tyrant.