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Decline And Fall Of The American Empire

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xongsmith
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Message 102 of 170 (820287)
09-18-2017 3:41 PM 		Reply to: Message 100 by New Cat's Eye
09-18-2017 1:27 PM

can't help it if I'm Lucky.
New Cat's Eye writes
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Someone paid me for the rights to harvest the trees from my property. Those trees have value before anybody has ever touched them, and I made money off them without doing anything. I just had to own the land.
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Who's labor do I owe the value of the rights to those trees to? Nobody planted them, they were just there when I bought the place. Nobody has chopped them down yet, they just paid for the rights to.
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But I still made money through no labor of my own.
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But just how did you acquire the property? By your own labor you were able to buy the property. Or by your parents' or grandparents', etc., labors done earlier.
- xongsmith, 5.7d
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Message 147 of 170 (821254)
10-04-2017 2:26 PM 		Reply to: Message 144 by Stile
09-21-2017 3:01 PM

Re: Competition
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The first was willing to walk over to it.
The second was willing to fight for it.
The third was willing to kill for it.
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Nothing happened though... and the third ape-man got the cave.
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The value of the cave just increased from "walking to it" up to "killing for it" with no labor happening.
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Depending on how far walking over to it is, it could be exercise.
Certainly fighting over it is very labor intensive.
And enough to kill the others even more labor intensive.
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Analogy Fail again on what is labor.
- xongsmith, 5.7d
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