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The Nature of Property | The Stephan Kinsella Series | Episode 2 (WiM216)

The "What is Money?" Show

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The Garden of Eden Analogy

Even in the garden of eden, i could not simultaneously eat an apple, smoke a cigarette, have a drink, climb up a tree, read a book, build a house, play with my cat, drive a ar, et cetera. And this would be so because there is only one body that i can use to do these things and enjoy the satisfaction derived from doing them. As long as this scarce resource, the body, is not indestructible and is not equipped with eternal health and energy, but rather, as an organism with only a limited life span, time is scarce too. The longer it takes to reach a desired result, the higher the cost involved in

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