I doubt that even the enslavement of the new farm owners will produce the desired results. The people who lived on the land before the white Europeans moved into South Africa never once considered farming the land and creating wealth. I think, as the article supports, that they will revert to living off of the land, just as their predecessors did.
I am convinced that great civilizations destroy themselves via government. The greater the number of people in a society who work for the government in relationship to those who actually create goods and services, the higher the probability the society will collapse.
The disappearance of the great Mayan society puzzles scholars. I contend that people simply could not support the government projects (intracity wars, building great pyramids) any longer, and simply moved away from the great cities for self preservation reasons.
The US in headed for a similar conclusion. We simply cannot support the massive government pension obligations and will simply move away from the taxing agencies and start living off of the land - see Detroit.
No doubt. There is no such thing as limited government. It won't can can't last.
I have become one of those people I used to think was a whacko. Thank you Von Mises. It's liberating, once it clicks.
“The disappearance of the great Mayan society puzzles scholars. I contend that people simply could not support the government projects (intracity wars, building great pyramids) any longer, and simply moved away from the great cities for self preservation reasons.”
I bleieve you are correct about that...plus the human sacrifices to their hungry gods was not a pleasant experience either.