Yes, I thought about pure water too. It was once available almost everywhere for free, but not anymore! Bottled water is becoming the rule for a lot of people in Ontario, and it's pretty well the standard in the 3rd World now. In Toronto they have oxygen bars now, where you can breathe some oxygen in order to recover from the smog...for a fee, of course. People also pay for sun, in a sense, when they go south for a winter vacation...or when they go to a tanning salon.

To run a world on the basis of money may be the worst way yet discovered of organizing a just and sane society, seeing where it inevitably leads.

Here are 2 reasons to do something:

1. It actually needs to be done, for some beneficial reason.

2. It will make someone a profit.

Which of the two is the sane one?

The Incas and the North American Indians had societies which functioned very well, and did not base activities on money exchange, nor were they acquainted with such a concept until the Europeans arrived, and proceeded to destroy everything natural.

- LH