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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So... farming is a free gift from nature?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

No, natural capital is - soil particularly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

This person is correct. Land and the natural process of nature are free gifts.