Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.
My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.
Even China's leaders routinely let the news media pool in, though they do their best to ignore them.
A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.
Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.