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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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You mean like in the capitalist system today where farmers are told to get big or get out, lose their land to the banks when they can't afford mortages and have to sell their goods for less because of the monopoly of buyers?
I took it that why should you, after you are finished with the land, hold on to it? Whats the good of lets say owning a house and never setting foot into it? Or moving out and never returning? After the harvest is over and its all said and done, why do you own the land?