Who Claims Exertion?
Exertion is the external manifestation of each person. So, in our free community, to whom does it belong? Who may assert a right, a ‘warranted claim’ to it? It probably requires a less than profound philosophical insight to award ownership of exertion to the one who exerts. But, philosophy is buttressed by an intrusive pragmatism. Exertion is a drag. The mind grows weary and the muscles suffer only so many contractions before they ache. The one who exerts is also the one who tires, who drops from fatigue, who requires rest to repair and renew. It is not without reason that ‘we seek to satisfy our desires with the least exertion’. We are also pressed by ‘unlimited desires’, but we find their satisfaction is married to exertion. Although exertion is not enthusiastically sought after, we must play out the scene. But, we act only as a means to receive. A successful alien claim to our exertion will promptly end the effort. In our free community, exertion will occur only when Labor’s claim t
