As is so often the case with these things, it only works if there’s infinite resources, mostly land in this case. As long as people can keep moving into the “unoccupied” territory one valley over, then yeah everyone can access sole proprietorship. Once scarcity hits, though, primitive accumulation kicks in and consolidation happens.
The only way around that is a robust state program to ensure equitable distribution and that’s verboten for people pushing this ideology.
There’s also just like capitalism inherently favoring larger organizations of production, even with “you can just go out and steal some land” as a release valve you’re still going to see bigger players forming monopolies and inevitably buying out or outcompeting the little bean sole proprietors
The only way around that is a robust state program to ensure equitable distribution and that’s verboten for people pushing this ideology
Yeah lol and it still probably wouldn’t work at all
There’s also just like capitalism inherently favoring larger organizations of production, even with “you can just go out and steal some land” as a release valve you’re still going to see bigger players forming monopolies and inevitably buying out or outcompeting the little bean sole proprietors
Yeah that is a common misconception about how western expansion happened in the US. It gets depicted as a massive cell cluster of small family farms blooming forth, but in reality it was rich east coast land speculators buying up all the choice parcels and the small family farms ended up with the scraps.
Yeah lol and it still probably wouldn’t work at all
It’d be massively inefficient. At that level of state involvement it’d be more straightforward to just socialize the economy and only keep around the handful of sole proprietorships that serve some sort of useful niche.
As is so often the case with these things, it only works if there’s infinite resources, mostly land in this case. As long as people can keep moving into the “unoccupied” territory one valley over, then yeah everyone can access sole proprietorship. Once scarcity hits, though, primitive accumulation kicks in and consolidation happens.
The only way around that is a robust state program to ensure equitable distribution and that’s verboten for people pushing this ideology.
There’s also just like capitalism inherently favoring larger organizations of production, even with “you can just go out and steal some land” as a release valve you’re still going to see bigger players forming monopolies and inevitably buying out or outcompeting the little bean sole proprietors
Yeah lol and it still probably wouldn’t work at all
Yeah that is a common misconception about how western expansion happened in the US. It gets depicted as a massive cell cluster of small family farms blooming forth, but in reality it was rich east coast land speculators buying up all the choice parcels and the small family farms ended up with the scraps.
It’d be massively inefficient. At that level of state involvement it’d be more straightforward to just socialize the economy and only keep around the handful of sole proprietorships that serve some sort of useful niche.