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charcircuityesterday at 10:30 PM2 repliesview on HN

The economy is not 0 sum. Someone else profiting doesn't hurt you.


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jsrozneryesterday at 10:44 PM

You’re right and wrong: today’s economy is often negative sum from total utility perspective. It hurts society and the person but it helps Mark Suckerberg and Scam Altman and the private equity firms.

It’s positive sum from a wealth-weighted utility calculation though. And that’s why it happens.

markdownyesterday at 10:35 PM

Seems you missed that part that DOES hurt us:

> Exchanging private and personal user data without consent and without users being aware of it

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