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Economy is a zero sum game in a perfect market. It is not a zero sum game because markets are not perfect.



This assumes (quite wrongly) that the same goods have the same utility across the population. It's similar to saying, in a perfectly efficient economy, there would be no trades. There are, because there is a benefit to that trade -- and there is no reason for that benefit to be evenly distributed.


You don't believe different rates of economic growth are possible?




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