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Two basic facts of life add together to put each of us at the
mercy of others from birth:
Fact Number 1. Every living creature, including man, has a
basic need for food. To live we must eat. It is the way we
were made --- a need we were saddled with by our creator.
Fact Number 2. Every living creature except man forages for
its food directly from the land. Although primitive tribes
do forage for their food directly from the land civilized
man has a system that prevents this. It is called land
ownership. At some point in the distant past man in his
great cleverness invented this system called "land
ownership". In this system men own pieces of land with all
land being owned by one person or another. A consequence of
this system is that each person born into this world has no
legal way of acquiring food (that is no legal way of
sustaining his life) unless he can obtain money from
someone, which he can then exchange for food. Thus it is a
system that makes each person completely dependent on "The
System" for the very continuance of his life. Each of us is
born into a world in which we are completely at the mercy of
others for a need vital to our physical survival. Every man
is "over a barrel" from birth: to obtain food to eat he
must do whatever possessors of money ask in order to obtain
money to buy food. If he can obtain no money except by
prostituting himself then he must prostitute himself. If he
can obtain no money except by groveling then he must grovel.
If the price of the money is to take all sorts of abuse and
mistreatment then he must take that abuse and mistreatment.
NOTE. There is something one can do about this: one can save
money, buy land and accumulate wealth and thus gain a degree
of independence from the system.
Mar 1985
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