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Can you explain to me how somebody like Mike Ashley becomes a billionaire, then?
I didn't say we live in a zero-sum game...
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I didn't say we live in a zero-sum game...
No. You wrote
Well my point is that broadly for one person to succeed, there are inevitably a large number who have to fail.
Which implies a zero-sum game.
Which we don't have.
Which isn't to say that some people may get still rich, and some people may still get poor. Sometimes from the same thing.
But there is no inevitability about it.
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Some will become rich by exploiting others financially (such as Mike Ashley with crappy contracts, etc).
There are other areas of innovation though, Mark Zuckerberg for instance.
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Mike Ashley
How awful Mike Ashley isn't really relevant. He's an extreme example and that is why it gets so much press.
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Someone making sure others fail as they tread on them on the way up is not the same as there being a general requirement for the others to fail in order for that person to succeed. That's just being a c*nt.
Mike Ashley you say...
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This is inaccurate. We don't live in a zero-sum game.