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RE: The Social Experimentalist - Danny Shine On Waking People Up In The UK and the World

in #jeff7 years ago (edited)

I understand the flea analogy now. We are one of millions of species on this planet. Our significance is definitely very small in the overall picture.

Sure, we are all connected via energy, etc., but our production, the individual's production, cannot be forcibly taken from them. Individual liberty doesn't exist without private property.

Even a small garden takes work. The planet does not have an apple tree on every corner. There isn't plentiful food all over. To support even a small family, you have to work very hard to develop your land.

To do what you suggest, millions of people would have to be forced to work in food production for others. Who's going to force them?

A lot of people think food in grocery stores get there by magic. The piece of fruit you are buying isn't very expensive by itself. Most of the cost is getting it to the shelf.

That's because most people do not grow their own food, and there's no such thing as a free lunch. Someone had to work to get that food to the point where the person buying it could. It cost time and fuel and other resources to bring it to market.

The planet has plenty of room too. People could live in places that have plenty of food, but they choose not to do it. Who's going to force them to move?

I'm an office worker, and I'm definitely not lazy. By lazy above I meant people who do not work, who leech off others for everything (welfare), and who also do not produce their own food via a garden, etc.

The old saying remains very true. "If you don't work, you don't eat." Just be sure the work you do is valuable to the market, for you can't simply dig and refill holes all day.

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