Quote Originally Posted by loosechickens View Post
When the guy's bulldozer is large enough for him to divert most all of the rain to his own advantage, by being able to create the riverbed in which the water flows, so that it waters only his own fields, leaving the fields of others dry, unless HE is willing to sell them water, we've got a huge problem.
Interesting analogy. But very flawed. The behaviour you describe is of course why we moved from "I'm an evil landowning noble" English-style water law to first-in-use water law here in much of the United States.

Water isn't a good analogy either, for much of it is a shared resource, and not "wealth".

When I write a cool book, and make a billion dollars from selling it in voluntary transactions, I haven't taken diverted water from your farm.