Our Living Standards Are Not a "Given." They Are a Gift We Owe to Commerce and Production.

It's an odd fact of the human condition that we take extraordinary things for granted. As soon as a good thing becomes commonplace, we assume that its presence is just the ordinary state of affairs, and we forget to be grateful for it. On the other hand, the loss of a good thing often causes us to appreciate it anew.

The world has just experienced a hint of what life would be like without the market. Let's never take it for granted again.