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Standards of living isn't zero sum, I agree. Wealth, or rather relative wealth or a class society is zero sum.

Again, everyone can't be rich (relative to other people), unless you want to go the direction of communism / socialism / classless society. So as a thought experiment...

PS. Why did you downvote, seriously you downvoted a thought experiment meant to stimulate thought.

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Communism / socialism / classless society doesn't escape the zero-sum game you mentioned. Relative wealth is zero-sum by very definition. If everyone has exactly the same wealth, no one is richer than others.

I agree.

>Wealth, or relative wealth or a class society is zero sum.

Relative wealth is zero sum. Wealth is not zero sum. You shouldn't muddle the terms like this.

This is nitpicking, but please go and read my post again and tell where I used the word wealth?

-edit - I mean my original top post. You introduced the word wealth and then call me out for muddle'ing its meaning :D

I was referring to the comment I quoted:

>Wealth, or relative wealth...

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