Yes, it is free and it comes from the sun. It provides our fuel and thereby our operating temperature (37 degrees C) that gets us up in the morning to do things and create value (wealth&#x2F;profit) that can very often be transferred via money to and from other wealth creators. And that means all of us on Earth. The earth is so productive that we can afford to trade value residing in abstract forms as in the arts, caring professions and the bureaucracies (government).<p>Natural resources don&#x27;t run out. The quantity of elements on earth has and will remain the same for a few billion years. Application of energy and information permits inter-conversion of their combined forms as we wish, if we&#x27;re smart enough. Not a given, I admit.<p>The creation of global wealth over the last 20-30 years has brought millions out of poverty. This is unprecedented. And it hasn&#x27;t been wealth taken from others.