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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.

  • I was implying that someone almost necessarily has to be exploited somewhere down the line for the boss to afford that third holiday home.

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