Reading Marc Aidinoff's article about the politics of decentralized technology and its grounding in the idea of the yeoman farmer:
"Jeffersonian liberty was explicitly enabled by mass enslavement. Jefferson’s commitment was to an “empire of liberty.” It was to be an empire composed of empires; each decentralized dominion governed by an independent farmer."
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/153408/Abbate-Dick_Chapter_2_Aidinoff.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
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