[K-Dog]

TDoS frequently would refer to me as a high earner.  That distorts the truth.  I am over 70 now and in perfect health. 

Liar. The term I've used has been "high net worth". You erased my comments on the ease with which you could sell it and live out your days in Vegas in a hotel if you wanted to, without financial trouble. Like a Howard Hughes routine, such is the value of your net worth.

I doubt Mrs. Kdog wants to live in a Vegas hotel.

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No Shit ! 

And how is it that he pretends to know what I have.  To live in a Vegas Hotel for the rest of my life would take at least 10 times what I have.  You would be paying upwards of $200 K a year for housing.  Better to live in something that is paid off.  As things are now you only have to double what I have to make me a fool for working.

Except that five years ago lifting 80 lbs with ease was not something I could do.  The blue collar option was the right option.  Currently I can lift it.  The time commitment is certainly worth the benefits.  The only problem is still having a life centered around a job.  Tuesday 7:30 AM, be there or be square.

[K-Dog]

It is a very good movie.  The ending credits starts with this.  It shows right after the pic above.  In no way does the montage have the flavor of the movie which is the 1840's.  By itself it is a work of art.  It ends the movie with a nice transition.

[RE]

Far as the land the house goes on is concerned, you can have a lifetime lease, but you can't own it and your children can't inherit it.  They CAN inherit the house, if they can move it.

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[K-Dog]

Proudhon's indictment of property owners who received income while contributing nothing was in line enough with the broad goals of the left for Marx to be an admirer.

Marx was never about free stuff as the right wing claims.  How could someone in the mid 1800s imagine a horn of plenty that provides all of humanities needs.  No, such delusions could not be had before the age of oil and bytes. 

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs (1875) means that along with the free stuff, needs being taken care of, that those with ability must contribute for the system to work.  The first part was not so easily forgotten.  The idea of having ability, and not using it had to have been an alien notion in Uncle Karl's time.  There were not enough couches for potatoes to grow, so it is on me to say it now.  In the days of uncle Karl, the distinction between worker and useless eater was stark and clear.  A distinction that is clearly muddled today in a population consumed by smartphones and delusions.

Labor is the source of value, and taking profit from labor is theft.

I say this.  But reading it is like dropping a heavy box on the floor.  Impact and nothing else.  I believe it, but I also believe a hypothetically just factory owner could work as the manager in his own factory and only pay himself a managers wage.   That would make the owner a worker.  Who would call everybody together to decide what should be done with excess profit.

But you know, the right always talks about human nature.  Perhaps they would agree that a just owner is about as rare as snow in July.

I'll end with an apology to the just.