First off, it seems like wealth is a zero-sum game. If I make money then someone somewhere else is losing money. They may be getting something of equivalent value in exchange, or they might just be getting screwed--it really doesn't matter.
You could probably argue that most people want to be richer, right? I mean, if you asked a random segment of the population, you'd probably get a conservative 80% of them to say "yes, I'd like to have more money."
If all these people followed the rule in this quote, then this would be the problem: what's the outcome when two or more people who have identical goals (and methods of obtaining those goals) play each other in a zero-sum game?
I'm not sure that it would end well for the majority of people.
First off, it seems like wealth is a zero-sum game.
Wealth is very clearly NOT a zero-sum game.
If I make money then someone somewhere else is losing money
Wealth isn't about money, it's about value. Ask yourself: if you create value, is someone somewhere else destroying value?
Money (in this context) is just a unit of account. Any central bank can produce an unlimited amount of these.
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