People seem to think that 'zero-sum' is an analytic shortcut to declaring something good/bad. You can't actually do this, however neat it seems. You have to con

People seem to think that 'zero-sum' is an analytic shortcut to declaring something good/bad. You can't actually do this, however neat it seems. You have to consider all the difficult-to-quantify social impacts and intricacies too. Almost every attempt to declare something zero sum will miss out relations, factors, dependencies and links because the model they pick is too simple. Hence the never-ending arguments about trying to define something ZS or not.