> Well, we had food and shelter before we had profit motives Did we? The Hobbesian original condition is one of the strongest "profit" motives around. Natural

> Well, we had food and shelter before we had profit motives Did we? The Hobbesian original condition is one of the strongest "profit" motives around. Natural selection is unsentimental and unforgiving. This idea of distributing things according to "need" is a very recent novelty.