&gt; There is not enough of what everyone wants.<p>Well, that&#x27;s right...<p>&gt; What if everyone wanted iPhones? There may be enough iPhones out there to give one to everyone in, say, New York City.<p>But that&#x27;s not. Bad example. iPhone production can increase as much as demand asks for. If we let anybody build one, there&#x27;ll easily be an iPhone for everybody that wants one.<p>Yet, there are few islands, beachfront properties, waterfalls... The things not available for everybody fall mainly on the non-renewable natural resources, with some slowly renewable ones at the borderline.<p>We can&#x27;t make capitalism go away. At least not until humanity changes completely into something that craves what&#x27;s available at space (mostly energy), instead of what&#x27;s available at Earth.