Interest Conflict Quotes
In Jefferson’s time most people aspired to acquire some land, and have their own home and farm on it. Immigrants come to the cities and worked to make enough money to go somewhere else and acquire some land to create a farm. However, over the last 100 years, the economy and human aspirations have changed. People are leaving the land and the farms to look for non-agricultural work and cities are expanding all over the world while rural area populations are declining. While undeveloped societies still have land reform pressure, industrial democracies have little pressure for individual ownership of land except to place a home on. Acreage for farming and ranching is no longer desirable for most people. In the United States, there are millions of acres of undeveloped land that can be purchased very cheaply as few people want to start farms or ranches any more. Alexander Hamilton’s vision of the American Economy has come to pass and not Jefferson’s.
