deezler
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Philosophical questions:
If the firewood one produces at their home property cannot or will not ever be sold, how many dollars is it actually worth?
If I can peck away at firewood production in my free time as a hobby, and spend basically nothing to do it, have I lost anything?
In the end I fully heat my home and do not have to spend the money paying for an alternative heat source.
Of course you are right that the firewood I turn into ashes has a theoretical market value. Totally fair if you want to compare and view things that way. Just seems hard to explain how some of us don't need to view it that way. I don't have an alternative, AND I also don't spend hardly any money on my heat source. Just facts. At the end of winter I have $1000 more in my bank account because I chose to heat my house this way. It is a chore, and a burden; of course I could figure out some sort of alternate income stream and spend my free time that way instead, but in reality, I would probably spend it on the couch because I don't know what that stream is. yet.
If the firewood one produces at their home property cannot or will not ever be sold, how many dollars is it actually worth?
If I can peck away at firewood production in my free time as a hobby, and spend basically nothing to do it, have I lost anything?
In the end I fully heat my home and do not have to spend the money paying for an alternative heat source.
Of course you are right that the firewood I turn into ashes has a theoretical market value. Totally fair if you want to compare and view things that way. Just seems hard to explain how some of us don't need to view it that way. I don't have an alternative, AND I also don't spend hardly any money on my heat source. Just facts. At the end of winter I have $1000 more in my bank account because I chose to heat my house this way. It is a chore, and a burden; of course I could figure out some sort of alternate income stream and spend my free time that way instead, but in reality, I would probably spend it on the couch because I don't know what that stream is. yet.