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The question is, why can you chop down one tree at $100/tree?
by bigyikes 5y ago
The question is, why can you chop down one tree at $100/tree?
- alar44 5y agoBecause it's a 0 effort renewable resource.
- Thorrez 5y agoThe question is why is the sale price $100. If it's 0 effort, you would think it would be cheaper.
- michaelt 5y agoImagine my great-grandfather planted a seed 150 years ago for $0, then we did nothing but wait for 150 years, then I chop it down and get $100 of lumber. But you can't enter the market and compete with me, because you don't have the right grandfather.
- Rd6n6 5y agoProperty values in Canada are quite high. That free free squatted on non-free land for 150 years before you got to chop it down. How many dollars per year did the land cost for those 150 years? Just saying that the free tree isn’t free
- rmah 5y agoMarx's labor theory of value is wrong.
- downrightmike 5y agoYou guys missed the point. They constrain supply and drive up prices.