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Originally Posted by Despanan
Well, I guess that's the best I'm gonna get.
My answer is yes (At least in most cases). You made the initial investment to buy that land. You took the financial risk upon yourself that working that land would be profitable. You dedicated years of your life to making that land what it is today. It wouldn't be fair for someone you don't know to come along and take you and your families livelihood without your consent simply because you were now too old to work, or had moved on to greener pastures. Where were they when you were breaking your back fertilizing the soil? Where were they when you were growing the trees? Where were they when your kids had to eat nothing but ramen for a month because the field had caught fire earlier that summer and you'd lost half your crop.
Business owners do way more than simply take out a loan and then sit back and rake in money off the sweat of their workers. Often they dedicate years, even lifetimes to building something. That deserves compensation.
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I sincerely doubt Alan is discussing stripping small farmers of their homes.
Last I checked, he was primarily an Anarcho-Syndicalist, so if anything he would say that your small farmer or land owner should band together with the other, neighboring farmers and over throw whomever actually OWNS that land, such as the government or a large, wealthy and owner.
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Because before too long there'll be nothing left alive, not a creature on the land or sea, a bird in the sky. They'll be shot, harpooned, eaten, and hunted too much, vivisected by the clever men who prove that there's no such things as a fair world with live and let live. The Royal family go hunting, what an example to give to the people they lead and that don't include me, I've seen enough pain and torture of those who can't speak...
- Tough Shit, Mickey by Conflict
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