the US has always been on the general bent towards liberty, but all through history it is regularly kicked sideways. that is the "eternal struggle" of individualism that is, generally, found by experiments. some of which, like socialism, are much more difficult to get rid of than others, like slavery.
interesting to say that immigration is what is keeping US domestic labor and goods down
in a sense that may be true and it is likely related to why the .gov spends so much effort in trying to keep the costs high, but one of the reasons why the US has so much labor migration is because the cost of labor is relatively high. there are much more productive areas than even the midwest, not sure that qualifies as a mediterrainian-iranian climate, but the choice of mobility is excellent and a family of 4 could do just fine. to quote any given N. Korean "my whole village was so poor that i had no idea that i was poor growing up". I'm not saying you should accept starvation as a simple state of nature for able and willing people, but there are plenty of places where a low standard of living readily translates into an easy and affordable life. a great many english speaking as well.
like you say, what was once a required livleyhood stable has become a high fashion endeavor. a motorized tractor rather than a team of oxen is now cheaper to own and operate in addition to be more productive. progress and the high cost of labor. it is still something doable, but it would need to be 100% done on your own, you can't make it worthwhile to trade/pay somebody elses labor.
the recognition that all of interaction that defines "economy" is speculative is one of the founding principles of capitalism, which has well demonstrated it's success and endurance. Fiat currency for easily manipulated inflation is just saying "hey, we will go ahead and speculate on your effort" and it is a failure of "the market" which is strangely driven 100% by governmetn interference
Well you're getting there. Lolbertarianism is bullshit because it's just a different peg of government and social organization, not a lack of it. It's like people who think there are 'fair fights'. You usually get that from guys who train in gyms and shit. There is no such thing as a fair fight. It does not exist. The first time you take a swing at someone, you can kill them. I can kill The Rock with one punch which interrupts his cardiac rhythm and he drops dead. It's totally possible and happens all the time. But then someone who spent a lot of effort doing MMA then makes all kinds of bullshit statements about a 'fair fight', about blacks jumping in and gang-stomping someone, or someone picking on someone else, WHEN THEY ARE LITERALLY TRAINING 20 HOURS A WEEK SO THAT NONE OF THEIR FIGHTS ARE FAIR.
Lolbertarians are angry that someone is taking their money and giving it to a welfare case. Like that faggot Molyneux.
I could kick the shit out of Stefan Molymeme. If I can, that means Tyrone from the Block can go over there and whip 3 Molymemes. Molymeme is paying the government of Canada to keep him safe, because no matter how many AR-17s Molymeme buys, there will always be another Ethiopian running out into the street to pick up the AK-47, and eventually, Molymeme is going to fall asleep or run out of ammo.
So SandiegoCJ is going to have to pay someone a portion of his money to A) Patrol the streets because
SanDiegoCJ sleeps once every 24 hours and has a finite amount of ammo and B) give welfare to Tyrone because he will be less likely to wander out into the suburbs for the easy pickin's on Karen and Kevin.
Yes, the US has high labor costs and depends on immigration to keep labor costs down, and drive up real-estate values. White people stopped having kids, thus inverting the Social Security pyramid in all Western Nations. Therefore, Germany imported Turks and then an increasing number of rapey Dark Skins from the near east. America can't get her blacks to work, so she imported Browns from south of the border who are quite happy living 21 to a house and sleeping on bug-infested mattresses on the floor working for Jim the dry-waller.
Jim the DryWaller is a MAGA Trumptard, but he's more than happy to pay Carlos $7 under the table because Beau the IBB faggot wants a McMansion, which will increase in value because immigrant labor clapped the piece of shit up. Beau the IBB faggot pays his insurance, because even the Dutch build their houses out of masonry, but Beau's house will get wiped off the map by a stiff breeze, or will catch on fire if you even show it a picture of a flame.
Then, Carlos will move to NOLA after it gets swamped and all the blacks move out, and re-build it using Jim the Drywaller's team of illegals to clap up some gyp board. Meanwhile Nancy the government worker is swamped with welfare requests in Baton Rogue, and has to hire 4 more black ladies to do all the paperwork, who will then need a house from Jim the Drywaller, after he gets done clapping up gyp board paid for by Beau's insurance premiums out in Calfornia.
That is literally the economy. If
SanDiegoCJ had to stop every five miles to dig out some quarters and throw in a Lolbertarian toll booth, we'd never hear the end of it from him.