And do not fish breed etc without human intervention?
Does the fish have any economic value while it remains uncaught? Have you ever seen a fish jump out of the water, scale and gut itself, and then jump into the frying pan?
And trees grow? Are there not automatic machines (even though they require occaisonal maintenance and repair?). And is not the sun an independent contributor to=
production (even though it cannot be owned? And, frankly, if you do not understand that a driverless lorry, (like a driverless train) really does have no driver, then I cannot help you any more and I suggest, for the sake of the others on this elist, that we end the subject.
I think I just heard an admission that there is no such thing as "independent productivity." Rodney, your theory of IP has brought great discredit and ridicule on Binary Economics and made it impossible for serious people to take it seriously. It is no accident that its primary economics texts are written by lawyers. Not that that would a problem in itself, but the unwillingness to enter a normal dialog in normal terms has consigned what might be a useful theory to the realm of crackpots.
I ask you again, what would change in BE if you just quiety dropped Independent productiveness?
John C. M�daille
"A dead thing can go with the stream...
but only a living thing can go against it."
-G. K. Chesterton
http://www.medaille.com/distributivism.htm
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