Re: What do workers compete for?

royls@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> 
> The soil that was already there.  Right.  Thank you for admitting that
> you lied.

Salty soil cannot be used to grow anything. It has to be leached and 
"sweetened". In short, land claimed from the sea, at great effort, wit, 
labor and capital has to be worked on even further before it can be used 
at all.

Most of what is found in nature cannot be used as it is found. It has to 
be worked on. A tree (non fruit bearing) has to be cut down, debarked 
and sliced into boards before it can be used to build with. Oil has to 
be extracted at great expense with sophisticated machinery. Then the 
petroleum has to be distilled, again at great expense and effort with 
cleverly designed equipment.

In short, there is very little free in nature. Maybe water, maybe air 
but almost everything else has to be sweated over and worked on.

TANSTAAFL -- The ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Bob Kolker