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Posted by Bus Driver on April 17, 2001 at 11:15:06 from (207.144.26.98):
Seeing the posts below and the many mentions of government prompts me to offer one of my observations (do I see the flamers coming?). Here is my own observation of economics: All economic activity begins with separating something from the earth by force. Suppose we had a town where all the people were either lawyers, accountants, seamstresses or bus drivers. What would we eat, where would we live? Trace the activity of any job you can imagine to it's logical origin and there is the earth and something being forcibly separated from the earth. Drilling, mining, farming, logging, even the harvesting of vegetation by humans or animals-all involve force. If the activity of harvesting from the Earth is stopped, our lives are over.
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