[SevenNation]

Good stories have a lesson of some kind. What's the lesson here?

[mrpopo]

If you want to become rich, take advantage of what comes for free and sell it. For this guy, it was welfare and free electricity. For others, it is healthy soil, or rich natural resources.

[minitech]

In this story, the electricity wasn’t free and he didn’t become rich.

[imtringued]

For landowners they sell the free government services provided alongside their land and call it rent.

For money owners they sell the free liquidity services and call it interest (Marx defeated?).