I’m not 14 years old enough to get this
they cant stop all of us
And how many bottles of water did you buy this week?
Why would a rivvvver need to buy water?
im lucky enough to have potable tap water, so none
Hell yeah, this is the free gifts of nature in a nutshell.
[…] the “free gift of Nature to capital.” Capitalist exploitation and accumulation, as Marx explains, ultimately depend on capital’s usurping of nature’s gifts for itself, thereby monopolizing the means of production and wealth in its entirety
Probably better sources, but this is the first best one I found.
So… farming is a free gift from nature?
Close. Farming is labour, which is what gives economic value to the free gifts. The capitalists skim excess value from this process in the form of wage theft and other fuckery.
I’m simplifying, but yeah.
No, natural capital is - soil particularly.
This person is correct. Land and the natural process of nature are free gifts.
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Better to think of natural capital and human labour being the two sources from which all value (in the sense of productivity) is ultimately derived. The soil is natural capital, the fertiliser is both (i.e. a mined and processed mineral resource), the rotation is human labour. Then the knowledge to reproduce this process in the correct manner is also critical.
The main question around this comic that makes it hard for me to derive a message is, who planted/cared for/owns the apple trees?
I’m reminded of a speech from Gus in Better Call Saul, where technically a tree from his homeland was wild, but he was the one that made the effort to water and care for it before a critter started stealing from it.
Right? It’s obviously an orchard, not a forest, and obviously the apples are one of the popular commercial cultivars rather than some wild natural variant.
I wouldn’t follow ethics in business advice from a meth dealer explaining why he killed a wild animal.
This comic makes so little sense it’s underflowed back to funny for me.
My experience is that apple trees aren’t that thick.
