> Someone else baked my bread, made may car and built my house and I paid for all of them.
That's true. But, with the possible exception of the bread, you did not pay the people who did the work, you paid someone who appropriated their work and sold it to you as their own.
And that person paid, someone, who, paid someone, etc, who paid them. As it happens, I’m directly paying people to work on my house right now.
I’m reading definitions of appropriation, and I don’t see the applicability. The bit about ‘without permission’ doesn’t seem to apply. I’m not taking anything, they offered their labour for sale.
Can you describe how a civilisation might function without appropriation as you define it?
There isn't a word in English that expresses the meaning I'm trying to convey. The point is that if a student hires someone to do their homework for them, that is considered "cheating" while if an employer does the same thing it isn't. If you have a suggestion for a better word to describe what the student is doing that captures the negative connotation associated with "cheating", I'm all ears.
That's true. But, with the possible exception of the bread, you did not pay the people who did the work, you paid someone who appropriated their work and sold it to you as their own.