I completely agree with everything you said. But, if I may ask, what is the relationship of all this with anything I said? Is this addressed to me by mistake?
"America did not become prosperous because of what Founding Fathers said about economics: it became prosperous because of what they did NOT say."
My intent was to show that America was likley prosperous before the founding fathers said--or did not say--anything.
Perhaps America's continued prosperity owed something to what the founders did or did not say--but that was likely not the origin of that prosperity.
(I suspect the origin of that prosperity had much to do with a continent brand-new to the uses of Western man,--
And hence brimming with aboundant natural resources, including high quality cheap land--
Plenty of the very best raw material of all kinds for a small population--
Whereas in Europe every square inch was owned and jealously guarded for generations,
With millions of Europeans having little hope of owning their own farms, slaving under laws slanted by the influential landowners to keep it that way, all killing innovation and industry.
Or whatever industry could be expected from land and resources depleted through generations of use.
Unlike Europe, land in America was so plentiful the rich did not need to conspire to keep it from the multitudes, anymore than they would have needed to conspire to keep the sky to themselves.