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|    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.       >              Hunting tribes consider that some areas belong to them.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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