>> Secondly, the extent of resources --- I mean those materials with
>> known uses and available for use --- has nothing to do with how high
>> a standard of living "all humans" can maintain. Whether any
>> particular person can maintain a high standard of living depends upon
>> his own skills and efforts in discovering and recovering those
>> resources, or in producing other goods he can trade to their
>> discoverers and recoverers for them. He has no *a priori* "share" in
>> them, and they do not owe him a living.
>>

>
> No problem, we'll all chip in a few bucks and have that engraved on
> your tombstone.