A nation only needs to fear immigration when it's an unsustainable welfare state with unlimited suffrage.
Problems with "big business" stem from a seeding of unjust law that protects and justifies theft...most often at the expense of the poor or widowed.
These are not externalities of free enterprise and private property but rather unjust wielding of the sword of the state.
The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the soul of the diligent is satisfied. Wealth obtained by fraud dwindles, but the one who gathers by labor increases it.
-proverbs 13:4,11
He who tills his land will have plenty of bread...the hand it the diligent will rule, but the slack hand will be put to forced labor
-proverbs 12:1,24
The standard of living of common men is highest in countries with the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. It is the foremost material interest of everybody that control of factors of production be concentrated in the hands of those who utilize them most efficiently.
-Mises
There is a reason why zombie companies are unprofitable... they do not "serve" others as we are called to serve.
They extort or cheat or manipulate to enrich themselves. As Bastiat put it, they make for themselves laws with which to justify theft.
Laissez faire economists merely reverse engineered God's code which promises external blessings in the response to external obedience to God's law.
Profit is (should be) a sign of success in serving others by meeting their needs.
Western prosperity was not an accident or coincidence.
It is the direct consequence of the puritan ethic.
Diligent labor, saving for the future, free enterprise, private property, and individual charitable initiative.
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