No. And I guess the same could be said for the opposite theory. But just look around you: everything that is man made has taken an enormous amount of effort an

No. And I guess the same could be said for the opposite theory. But just look around you: everything that is man made has taken an enormous amount of effort and accumulated knowledge. It's not been made by people who worked three hours per day devoting the rest to socialisation and a painting lessons. The people who invented antibiotics worked their asses off in university and laboratories to find a way for other people to survive infections. All the tools that they were using have been invented by people literally living in their shops and laboratories, and mass produced in factories, keeping their availability high and their price low. If you take any situation or object in your life and follow backwards the chain of work and invention that has been needed to design it, produce it and keep it working, you realise that this chain has required an enormous amount of effort by everybody involved. This might be the relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1741/ http://xkcd.com/1741/