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| <Westralian Worker, 2 February 1917> 
| <pb n="6"> </trailer> </p>
| <headline><p> JUST THE DIFFERENCE </p></headline>
| <p> There are two ways of making a living, working for it, and 
| working others for it. If you don't work for it yourself, squirm 
| and wriggle as you will, quote political economy until you're 
| black in the face, the ugly, commonsense fact remains, that 
| someone else is working for it, while you get it. Labor, the 
| fertiliser, applied to Land, the all-mother, is the sole source of 
| wealth. </p> 
| <p><d> "Aha! I have you now," says the owner of broad acres; 
| "yonder is Labor, I am the Land. He gets his wage, I take my 
| rent." </d></p> 
| <p> No, my friend, you are not the Land. You are only an 
| excrescence on the land ~~ a parasite on its fertility, like the 
| rabbits, grasshoppers, and grubs. </p> 
| <p> That's just the difference. </p>
| <p> Again, friend investor, you claim to be a useful member of 
| society. Well, just ponder this: Had Adam saved a pound a week 
| for all the 930 years of his life, he would have left behind him 
| the modest sum of £48,000. And very nice, too! do you say? But 
| wait. Suppose the patriarch had invested the sum of one penny 
| at compound interest ~~ say 5 per cent ~~ you will probably be 
| astounded to know that £48,000 wouldn't pay his probate 
| duties. True, it would take 14 years for that penny to grow to 
| twopence, and 112 years for it to grow to a pound. But at the 
| end of 200 years it would have increased to £100, and in the 
| 333rd year of the investment Adam's credit balance would stand 
| at £48,000. From this date the amount would grow apace until, 
| at the day of the gentleman's demise, a sum of 221,700 millions 
| of pounds would be left for division amongst his family. </p>
| <p> If you care to carry the matter a little further, suppose that 
| the original investment had been forgotten, and the amount 
| allowed to accumulate until the present day, considerations of 
| space would not permit us to print the number of golden 
| sovereigns that that primeval penny had grown into. Suffice to 
| say that in round figures, it would be represented by 6589, 
| followed by 119 naughts. The saving of a pound a week from 
| the product of honest labor for a like period would only run into 
| a miserable £300,000. That's just the difference. </p>
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