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Zero-sum is blown out of the water by looking at how societies over time collectively become either richer or poorer. The problem of course is working out how that happens.
A very crude observation of the last 10 years in a few different countries:
Norway -> lots of oil -> everybody better off
Venezuela -> lots of oil -> everybody worse off
South Korea -> ??? -> everybody better off
Greece -> ??? -> everybody worse off
*almost everybody