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   The greatest truth is honesty to rbowman   
   Re: The centrally planned economy is a b   
   09 Nov 19 22:15:05   
   
   XPost: soc.culture.jewish   
   From: The_greatest_truth_is_honesty@truth.com   
      
   On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 07:55:24 -0700, rbowman wrote:   
      
   > On 11/06/2019 04:27 AM, Jos Boersema wrote:   
   >> Land underpins a free market economy, and it is an insurance policy for   
   >> people who become unemployed. It allows those who want to, to start a   
   >> business very easily, and it also challenges those to do that even if   
   >> they do not want to, but they must because they must eat and they can   
   >> otherwise not find a serf position that pays them enough. Getting a job   
   >> is in the end a privilege, you cannot rely on it.   
   >   
   > I have never owned land and had no problem starting a business. In fact   
   > being linked to a specific geographical point would have been   
   > detrimental. Some of us a hunter-gatherers, so to speak, some are   
   > farmers. Historically, the concept of owning a particular chunk of the   
   > earth lead to hierarchical social structures and serfdom.   
   >   
      
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