I so often hear good people talk about the government doing this or that. Regulating this or that without even a thought of the default state of man. It is poverty and nakedness. Free trade and markets have allowed us to become extremely wealthy. We are slowly killing the golden goose. Wealth these days is just a given. It is just assumed there will always be some fat cat to tax. I can't help but imagine how much discovery and knowledge has been missed because many parts of the world have been under the thumbs of dictators and oppressive governments backed by "democracies". A young man from a poor nation could have come up with a cure for cancer had his nation had the infrastructure to provide education. Instead he has to think about where his next meal will come from. We have no idea what humanity is missing out on. Its why I'm so annoyed by the environmental movements obsession with taking away the tools that were used to build the industry in Europe and North America from the rest of the world. They are being cursed to live in the past while we live in the future. Seemly no thought goes into the tradeoffs of anything.