>Me, I'll take antibiotics and iPods, a 70+ year life
>expectancy and the possibility that we could actually
>feed everyone (I know of course that we don't), low
>infant and childbirth mortality, and the problem
>involved in deciding whether I can afford to go on a
>European vacation next year or, resources being
>scarce, I have to put the money towards my daughter's
>college education, where she can indulge in learning
>about those other products of scarcity, 19th century
>French and modern Latin American literature.
>
Earth to Andie: the options you describe above are currently available
to a very small percentage of the earth's population.
Joanna