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Nah, Spiderpie's zero-sum argument is a dangerous one.
It seems to me that he's coming from a left-wing point of view. But he's mistaking the old marxist argument that a capitalist's profits is money (unfairly) taken off the worker's wages, and lazily extrapolating that to mean that any money made by anyone must be someone else's loss.
And it's dangerous because it can also be used by the right to block a more progressive society. As in: "Money spent on better education for deprived areas means those kids will grow up to earn higher incomes than their parents. Which again means that in the future they'll be taking money that was meant for my privately educated kids. Hence the plebs must be kept in their place."
Contrary to what Spiderpie thinks, the zero-sum game reasoning serves a right wing agenda far better than a left wing one.