An exert from Henry George’s Progress and Poverty.” Imagine a vast country with no occupants. Settlers begin to arrive in the country. One family comes to a very large valley and settles down there. They were farmers and could grow food for thousands, but not being builders they lived in a shack. Their clothes are crude and some die from disease but they eat like kings. Another family arrives and they are builders and can build houses for thousands. So they say we will build houses for all if you give us of your surplus food. Now both families live in excellent houses, eat like kings but they dress badly and some die of disease. But soon a maker of clothes arrives and dresses all well and has a house and food supplied by the others. A doctor and his family arrives and they are provided with food, a house and clothing. He cares for the health of the others and so everyone prospers. As each new settler arrives, they give of the abundance of their speciality and the lives of all are enriched.” This may be a simple model but it shows the basis of true progress is cooperation, not the crazy competitive economic model that is the only one on offer to us at this moment in time. The only people that benefit from the present system are the capitalists that control this narrow view of our human situation.