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> We all benefit more than we ever can repay. Clearly, that is not possible.

• throwaway2048 8y ago
  Only if you beleive the exchange to somehow be zero or negative sum, which is of course absurd because there would be no point in civlization existing in the first place if that was the case.
• forapurpose 8y ago
  Why not? It's accumulated benefits of millennia. Consider only the capital accumulated by prior taxpayers. Or consider all the science and technology that was developed - how much would it cost to rediscover Newton, Galileo, the space program, the Manhattan Project, written language, plumbing, all of mathematics, information theory, transistors, the wheel ...? You can't afford it.