[ingliz]

If he had crawled naked to the job site as a babe in arms and survived long enough, alone without society, to wield a spade he had made himself, I would call the trench dug with his personal labour.

[SecretSquirrel]

how does it matter how he got the spade or even his food. The act of work was done in solitary with no one else around

Sure he might owe someone for his tools, thats what money or barter is for. Trading one mans work for another's. It doesn't make the work done by the first with those tools in any way owe something to the second

[ingliz]

The act of work was done in solitary with no one else around

That "solitary" work would not have been possible without the work of others.

Why do you think the field belongs to the man who dug the trench, and not to the society who made the digging of the trench possible?

[SecretSquirrel]

you into arguing against straw men? I don't believe that the field belongs to him or any other man.

[ThePublicOpinions]

The field belongs to the capitalist that generously rented his shovel to the poor exploited peasant.