… is from John Stossel’s November 27th, 2019, column titled “Thanksgiving – What the pilgrims knew about socialism and private property”:
Pilgrim teenagers were especially lazy. Some claimed they were too sick to work. Some stole the commune’s crops, picking corn at night, before it was ready. But once [William] Bradford created private lots, the Pilgrims worked hard. They could have sat around arguing about who should do how much work, whether English tribes or Indian ones were culturally superior, and what God would decree if She/He set rules for farming.
None of that would have yielded the bounty that a simple division of land into private lots did.
DBx: To all of my fellow Americans, Happy Thanksgiving!
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