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ecib · 4803 days ago · link · · parent · post: Elizabeth Warren Quote about the Social Contract Implied in Success
Scarcity is exactly an example of zero sum in the aggregate. If you say "just cause someone make more doesn't mean I make less" you're wrong in the aggregate. If you're just talking individually, ok fine. But to do so is to make no point whatsoever. When talking about policy applied in a macro setting, finding one particular individual that is either adversly or positively affected and using that individual entity to judge the policy is, on it's face, absurd.
You mumbled some stuff about how competition is difficult, but you didn't address the reality I pointed out to you, -that markets are finite on size and corps are competing for a percentage of that finite market. If somebody gains, someone else loses. I don't understand how competition beig difficult has any bearing whatsoever on that reality. Then you go on about choking competition etc. Can you address the point I made before you switch to a new topic (effects of gov't regulation on competition)?