jaehaerys1:priceofliberty:solar-fem:swtdgirl:education:(Source)”When you reap the harvest of your la
jaehaerys1:priceofliberty:solar-fem:swtdgirl:education:(Source)”When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the LORD your God….”— Leviticus 19:9-10I know farmers that do this, I used to live in an area where fruit trees grew, on the road we lived, the trees on the edge by the road were always left for the neighbors and travelers to pick, and when my mom taught me how to make jam, we went to buy peaches from the neighbors stand, when he found out why, he refused to sell, but invited us to pick the freshly fallen fruit from his orchard, to take as much as we wanted by the bucket load so it was not wasted and make a mess he had to clean up, as he couldn’t sell the ground fallen fruit for health inspector reasons. We made loads and shared it with our neighbors.Without capitalism, humans are naturally inclined to share with and care for others. There’s more than enough to go around as long as people aren’t greedy.that farmer’s orchard, and the land upon which it grows, is his capital. it was his voluntary benevolence which created the exchange above, a surplus of fruit as a result of the productive capital under his care“Without capitalism…”“Capitalism” isn’t some spell people are put under to keep them from behaving like the idealized New Socialist Man. Too often, people simply throw this phrase around to explain why people don’t conform to their naive view of human nature. As David Friedman pointed out over 40 years ago, there’s already nothing stopping people from voluntarily choosing to act generously today: “Under any institutions, there are essentially only three ways that I can get another person to help me achieve my ends: love, trade, and force […] So under private property the first method, love, is used where it is workable. Where it is not, trade is used instead. The attack on private property as selfish contrasts the second method with the first. It implies that the alternative to ‘selfish’ trade is ‘unselfish’ love. But, under private property, love already functions where it can. Nobody is prevented from doing something for free if he wants to. Many people - parents helping their children, volunteer workers in hospitals, scoutmasters - do just that. If, for those things that people are not willing to do for free, trade is replaced by anything, it must be by force. Instead of people being selfish and doing things because they want to, they will be unselfish and do them at the point of a gun.” - The Machinery of Freedom Part I, “Love is Not Enough” -- source link
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