bunkyprewster

These scientists have never heard that "revenge is a dish best served cold".

now I have the chance to live in relationship and not religion — not just loving Christ but being in love with Christ and sharing His love."

Does that sound just a little gay?

I'm an atheist, but I also pray to a vague "higher power" every morning. My sense is that the prayer helps whether I believe or not.

Oh I like the way your are thinking....

So you labor, make something, exchange that for money and then buy the tractor. The tractor making people get your money in exchange for their tractor constructing labor. In this regard folks are just exchanging the product of their own labor.

But if you start renting the tractor out is that the same? In some sense the tractor is a substitute for the product of your effort (you traded grain for money for tractor) so if you were to trade the tractor for, say beer, its still just a swap. But if you are renting the tractor, you get something from the renters but you still have the whole tractor back at the end. You got something from them just for having had ownership of the tractor.

It could be that everyone got different tools. It could be that some frittered their resources away like a grasshopper to your virtuous ant. It could be you were just lucky, a windfall inheritance.

The actual history of primitive accumulation is a lot darker.

But however you got that John Deere, should it entitle you to the physical labor of other people? Is that the kind of relationship you want with your neighbors?

Parisians are different. Can't blame anyone for having strong feelings about them.

To be fair, that's a big cat.

To me, it sounds like you are describing a situation where because you have some money (to buy a tractor) and other people don't, you gain access to some of the human labor of your neighbors.

People get mad if you don't like dogs, but you never read stories about people getting mauled by cats.

Captain Picard day? First Contact day?

Rats cashing out before it swirls down the drain

ISIS having to work hard to prove they were the ones who did it, since Putin is so excited to blame Ukraine