... What do you believe 1800 America was like? Because it was govt backed credit sales, land grants and pre emption rights that gave the land to people. The "self employment" was subsistence agriculture on the granted land in the frontier. The land was granted by a mechanism very similar to the volkisch lebensraum.

Clearly a relevant and replicable analogy to AI making entrepreneurship easier /s

Your version of 1800s North America is a myth.