I cut down trees and make wood planks with my homemade tools. Then a friend stocks and sells them in the house my pa made, to give me more time to make the planks. What percent of the of the profits should the friend get from this?
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Aiden Carter
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William Richardson
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Brody Parker
2%
Easton Parker
Any answer to this question should mention that we wish to abolish money.
Xavier Williams
Ok, but do you wish to abolish trade as well?
Lucas Ross
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Hunter Powell
History has progressed past these simplistic scenarios. The current mode of production is much more socially involved.
To cut down trees you'll have to get a permit from the local council. We don't want the local ecosystem to be disturbed by your shenanigans.
You and your friend will basically just be roleplaying. If anyone needs planks they'll be produced much more effectively on an industrial scale.
If what you and your friend were doing was socially useful, you'd be compensated for the time and effort spent laboring. "Profits" aren't the right term though. You'll be directly maintained by the rest of the community.
It's a very basic way of organizing human activity, much more basic than trade. Everyone is expected to do a bit of work, and everyone gets to enjoy the fruits of that work at the end of the day. If you have worked less (without good cause for it) you get less of a claim on those fruits.
The claims you have would be regulated by labor-tokens or something along those lines. You show them to the store clerk, they stamp them, and get you what you need. (Today it'll work digitally, but you get the point.)
Basically. Though what we'll really do is stop enforcing any property that isn't meant for personal use. You'll have a right to your home and workplace, but not to some arbitrary stash of planks you're intending to trade. The police won't come to your protection for those. This makes trade impossible.
Hunter Long
This. These libetarian scenarios always imagine some 19th century artisan production when reality is almost all production happens on an industrial scale.
Angel Lee
are you a socialist OP?
If yes, and you belive in coops, maybe you should both read something about them and work something out.
If else there is no right answer just make a deal.
If you are a a grade A bacon porky just pay him the minimum.
Caleb Sullivan
that's 99% of libertarians and ancaps and their theory