Thomas Jefferson imagined an agrarian economy.
“I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.”
“The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body”
All by Thomas Jefferson