A reply to Duncan's ope-l 5215.
No, wild corn no longer exists when the output is produced . It did exist, it
was planted as seed, and it was thus destroyed physically. At harvest time,
there is no more wild corn, anywhere, only the harvested corn.
As I noted originally, the question is whether any value is transferred when
(a) a means of production has no value at the time it enters production, but
(b) replicas of it have a positive value when the output produced by means of
these means of production emerges
Andrew Kliman