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Author: ShrikebackShrikeback Date: Sep 1, 2008 10:49
On Sep 1, 8:11Â am, Bret Cahill aol.com> wrote:>> Real wealth is created, as much as anything can be created, only by labor.
>> Money is not real wealth. Money, other than the physical thing itself,
>> only represents real wealth. It is an abstraction. All of money's worth
>> must have the wealth of labor, the actual act of work, to have meaning.
>
>> An economy can not have form without labor. Each economic theory,
>> principle and system are dependent upon labor first before any other
>> scheme can take action.
>
>> The real value of labor is directly proportional to what that labor
>> produces. Real value is not necessarily the amount of money or reward
>> given to that labor. Real value starts with the labor that is necessary
>> for the act of life and for living life. Life needs labor, life is labor
>> before all else.
>
>> This is Labor Day. This should never be forgot.
>
> Lincoln explained why we don't have a "Capital Day."
But we do have a Capital Day; it's called the Fourth
of July. Remember? That's when the Capitalists got
together to revolt against the taxation of the proceeds
of their capital (and labor) by an unrepresentative
Georgist III gummint.
> "Labor is the superior of capital . . ."
>
> -- Lincoln
Are you trying to imply that Lincoln invented
Karl Marx? Tyranny of the proletariat and all
that.
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