Resources are scarce as compared to unlimited wants. But, the economics
of non-rival ideas creation has proved that resources are ample and that
physical resources could be used in ways that keeps fulfilling the basic
needs of society through the creation of ideas that augment and bring
multiplier effect to the availability of given physical resources. In
simple words, the development in science and technology by developing
human capital base has enabled the societies through each level in
history to make best use of physical resources and avoid resource
exhaustion for the basic requirements. Despite that, poverty has
persisted. Problem is not with resource scarcity, it is with
distribution of resources which require an equitable and egalitarian
socio-economic system. What is needed is a system that consists of
institutions working towards fulfilling this objective. Capitalism, the
way it is practiced as an economic system, has largely allowed and
promoted certain institutions and their operations based on free market
philosophy and such institutions have been chief reasons behind much of
distributional inequity in the world today.