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wekyesterday at 1:53 PM1 replyview on HN

A bit hard to read but some fun images and examples. I appreciated his post on capitalism as not a zero sum game.


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AndrewKemendoyesterday at 4:08 PM

Capitalism is 100% a zero sum game and capitalists love to try to pretend that it’s not

The fact of resource extraction from society and externalities like pollution not being counted by capitalist because they “can’t count them “and just bundle them as externalities demonstrably destroy any concept of non-zero sum game

There are limited resources on the planet and that’s the sum.

If you want to take it even further the extraction pace is even more important than the total gross amount of resources because of inefficient allocation and distribution processes

So no the universe itself is zero some we’re not creating more Mattar and especially in the context of humans on earth the functional and numerical reality is zero sum

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