> "Sean" now.com.au> wrote in
> news:48c49a71$0$18425$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au:
>

>>> 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.

>
> Of course. "Your money or your life." The standard philosophy of predators
> and parasites.
>