An Old Debate Returns

After World War II when America decided to follow Alexander Hamilton's model instead of the Jeffersonian system, a number of changes occurred which now haunt our generation. Jefferson envisioned a nation of small farm, shop and business owners that spread around leadership and prosperity, while Hamilton preferred a mercantile system with a few wealthy owners employing the large majority of the populace.

Hamilton felt that an increase in wealth among the leading families would make up for the reduced freedom and less-widespread prosperity under a mercantile economy--after all, this was the model used by the most powerful nations in Europe.

Ironically, we have now reached a point where the greatest challenges we face are caused by the mercantile system and can likely only be solved by an entrepreneurial mindset. 

Funny how history pulls these types of pranks.