[ihumanable]

I have always found it amusing how much of our modern economic system looks something like this.

- What if everyone shared and cooperated and got along?

- Well then someone that wanted to take advantage of people would come along and make a big mess of it!

- Well what's your proposal then, should we stop those people, outlaw their greed and avarice?

- Hmm... no I think we should reward it and build our entire system around getting greed to produce useful outcomes.

- Ok, so we've been doing that for a while and the people that would have taken advantage of the commons have privatized the commons, taken full advantage of that, purchased the government, and essentially rule over us while we all fight for crumbs...

- But you've got an iPhone, so it's basically working great