This is a digression from the point of your making that clipping, but it just reminded me of Paul Zane Pilzer and his disbelief in the scarcity theory in economics. Sam Walton [WalMart] thanked him for that. I think Pilzer's book, Unlimited Wealth, was meant to expound on that. [Haven't read the book]
Here's an excerpt:

"Whether or not we ever did, today we do not live in a resource-scarce environment. That may seem hard to believe, but the businessperson and the politician--as well as the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker--who continue to behave as if they were operating in the old zero-sum world will soon find themselves eclipsed by those who recogn...

This is a digression from the point of your making that clipping, but it just reminded me of Paul Zane Pilzer and his disbelief in the scarcity theory in economics. Sam Walton [WalMart] thanked him for that. I think Pilzer's book, Unlimited Wealth, was meant to expound on that. [Haven't read the book]
Here's an excerpt:

"Whether or not we ever did, today we do not live in a resource-scarce environment. That may seem hard to believe, but the businessperson and the politician--as well as the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker--who continue to behave as if they were operating in the old zero-sum world will soon find themselves eclipsed by those who recognize the new realities and react accordingly.
What are these new realities? To put it simply, we live today in a world of effectively unlimited resources--a world of unlimited wealth. In short, we live in what one might call a new Alchemic world."