• huppakee@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      In a perfect world you can do both because a society has a very wide range of sources of income, but in the end it actually is a zero sum game.

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        3 days ago

        This

        Particularly about the misunderstandings section.

        politics and macroeconomics are not zero-sum games, however, because they do not constitute conserved systems

        Or if you don’t like Wikipedia, here’s an economics website:

        This

        In a non-zero-sum game, it is possible for two parties to both benefit from a decision.

        It also lists examples for each.

        Zero sum games are often misunderstood and used as a vehicle of misinformation to perpetuate the lie that if you do one desirable thing, you lose the status quo.

        Therefore, looking after the young and looking after the old is a non-zero sum game because you can literally do both. My best example is Australia; we have aged care and child care, with plenty of room for subsidising mining corporations.