<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-UFIRow gmail-UFIComment gmail-_4oep" style="background-color:rgb(246,247,249);margin:0px 12px;padding:4px 0px;word-wrap:break-word"><div class="gmail-_3b-9"><div class="gmail-clearfix" style="zoom:1"><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-UFIImageBlockContent gmail-_42ef gmail-clearfix" style="zoom:1;overflow:hidden;margin:0px;padding-left:8px"><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-UFICommentContentBlock" style="padding-right:12px"><div class="gmail-UFICommentContent" style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span><br></span></div><div class="gmail-UFICommentContent" style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span><br></span></div><div class="gmail-UFICommentContent" style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><span><br></span></div><div class="gmail-UFICommentContent"><font color="#1d2129" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><a href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/basic-income-funded-by-capital-income-by-yanis-varoufakis-2016-10">https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/basic-income-funded-by-capital-income-by-yanis-varoufakis-2016-10</a></span></font></div><div class="gmail-UFICommentContent"><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail-UFICommentContent"><font color="#1d2129" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px"></span></font><span style="color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px">A common myth, promoted by the rich, is that wealth is produced individually before it is collectivized by the state, through taxation. In fact, wealth was always produced collectively and privatized by those with the power to do it: the propertied class. Farmland and seeds, pre-modern forms of capital, were collectively developed through generations of peasant endeavor that landlords appropriated by stealth.'</span></div><div class="gmail-fsm gmail-fwn gmail-fcg gmail-UFICommentActions" style="color:rgb(144,148,156);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;clear:both;padding-top:2px"><a class="gmail-UFILikeLink" href="https://www.facebook.com/sharon.ede/posts/10154071239912828?comment_id=10154071246867828&ref=notif&notif_t=comment_mention&notif_id=1478268535346722#" title="Unlike this comment" style="color:rgb(54,88,153);text-decoration:none">Unlike</a><span> · </span><a class="gmail-UFIReplyLink" href="https://www.facebook.com/sharon.ede/posts/10154071239912828?comment_id=10154071246867828&ref=notif&notif_t=comment_mention&notif_id=1478268535346722#" style="color:rgb(54,88,153);text-decoration:none">Reply</a><span> · </span><a class="gmail-UFICommentLikeButton gmail-UFICommentLikedButton" href="https://www.facebook.com/browse/likes?id=10154071243612828" rel="dialog" id="gmail-js_l" style="color:rgb(54,88,153);text-decoration:none;padding:2px 5px 4px;white-space:nowrap"><span class="gmail-UFICommentReactionIconContainer" style="padding-right:3px"><i class="gmail-_3j7l gmail-_2p78 gmail-_9-y" style="display:inline-block;height:13px;width:13px;background-image:url("/rsrc.php/v3/yB/r/So9uNGNGmHz.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:170px 126px;background-position:-144px -80px"></i></span>1</a><span> · </span><a class="gmail-uiLinkSubtle" href="https://www.facebook.com/sharon.ede/posts/10154071239912828?comment_id=10154071243612828&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R0%22%7D" style="color:rgb(144,148,156);text-decoration:none">58 mins</a></div><a class="gmail-UFICommentCloseButton gmail-_50zy gmail-_50-0 gmail-_50z- gmail-_5upp gmail-_42ft" href="https://www.facebook.com/sharon.ede/posts/10154071239912828?comment_id=10154071246867828&ref=notif&notif_t=comment_mention&notif_id=1478268535346722#" style="color:rgb(54,88,153);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:0px;text-decoration:none;height:12px;width:12px;background-color:transparent;border:0px none;overflow:hidden;padding:0px;vertical-align:middle;display:block;white-space:nowrap;background-image:url("/rsrc.php/v3/yV/r/PEEzHuspgLt.png");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-size:500px 302px;background-position:-256px -286px;opacity:0"></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-UFIRow gmail-UFIComment gmail-_4oep" style="background-color:rgb(246,247,249);margin:0px 12px;padding:4px 0px;word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div class="gmail-_3b-9"><div class="gmail-clearfix" style="zoom:1"><div class="gmail-_ohe gmail-lfloat" style="float:left"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharon.ede?fref=ufi" class="gmail-img gmail-_8o gmail-_8s gmail-UFIImageBlockImage" tabindex="-1" style="color:rgb(54,88,153);text-decoration:none;display:block;margin:0px"><img alt="Sharon Ede" class="gmail-img gmail-UFIActorImage gmail-_54ru gmail-img" src="htt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