Why, how nice of him. His tenants pay rent for farming land that was usurped by his ancestors, who did not make a single square foot of that land. Landlordism is one of the biggest evils on the planet*. The landlord himself doesn't have to work the land, but he will charge rent, as much as he possibly can without breaking the law or making his tenants squeal. He is, in effect, taxing the efforts of his tenants, who are probably also paying tax to the Exchequer. In the case of BigEars, as we know he is paying tax voluntarily "out of the goodness of his heart," while his tenant, who is working his socks off (if he doesn't, he won't be able to pay his rent or his taxes), has no option but to pay up. Now these exploits of this particular landlord yield "profits," whereas the tenant farmer, were he to be released from his tenancy, would be making a living. And he would look after the land a lot better than he did as a tenant, after all, he will stand or fall on how well he farms it. Now those "profits" that the tenants made for the landlord will enable him to spend months every year on private islands in the tropics, or shooting silly birds on vast estates that the rest of us are kept off, or catching salmon in rivers that, if we were caught doing the same thing, would have us branded criminals, or spending long tracts of time on his own or his mother's walled estates, out of view, where he will be looked after by an army of servants. Never mind that neither he nor his ancestors made any of that estate land or caused a single drop of the water in those lovely rivers to flow.

*That great self-sufficiency guru, John Seymour, a man who was in many ways even more right-wing than Teribus (is that possible?), sarcastically wrote that he loved landlords so much that he'd like to see many more of them, millions in fact, every one of them lord of his own piece of land, and ONLY his own piece of land.

You have misrepresented the financial affairs of BigEars, by the way, and I think you know it. I'll get back to you. I'm a bit busy now.