>> “If I dig a hole and fill it in I am in the same position as not having worked at all.” <<
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Really? - Then why did you do it? - No you are not in the same position. Was it for physical conditioning? Or for testing the soil at the bottom of the hole? or for locating a pipe or wire?
Digging a hole and filling it back in happens every day in the construction business; Work is done for pure physical fitness by millions every day.
Your arguments are getting less and less realistic.
“Really? Then why did you do it?”
Most likely because the government paid me to. But you’re right, it would be foolish speculation on my part as to how to spend my time. Let’s forget about what you said about all labor and pretend it was meant to be labor that produces something. Do you think all laborers predict correctly that their product will be worth something? That is hopeful.
Or is it that you’ve redefined labor to mean laborious that us fruitful, meaning laborious that produces tangible and valuable things. Well, we can go home now because the argument has been defined away. Money may or may not make you money, but your special definition surefire will.
By the way, the reason I brought up digger’s n io and filling in holes was to demonstrate that there’s a difference between laborious and laborious that produces value. Whenever you apply elbow grease to nature, so to speak, you speculate it will have been better than nit doing anything. You delusion that labor necessarily leads to valuable goods is false.
Money speculation may be more abstract, but it is nit fundamentally different from hoping your trench digging or tree cutting will make you a living.