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If you think about it in another way, you can both own and eat the cake.

You get the cake: you own it.

You eat the cake: you still own it inside you. And you will keep owning it until it is fully digested, its nutrients absorbed and processed and the waste discarded.

You will only stop owning the cake after eating it when its nutrients are completely used up and its waste products effectively discarded.