Probably for the best, as I am near positive that you have not been able to define "the economy", or "economy", even though you use it nearly every sentence. Th

Probably for the best, as I am near positive that you have not been able to define "the economy", or "economy", even though you use it nearly every sentence. This makes it seem like you have no idea what you are talking about. >Take the US economy of 1900 as "the pie". The US economy as of 2015 is more than double that, even after accounting for inflation and population growth. See, you are talking about two different things. There are very few people alive today who were alive in 1900. So, an "entire new pie" takes 115 years to make? Now I will be you: `But, jsprogrammer, didn't saulrh claim, "They're happier about throwing away chunks of pie than they are about getting an entire new pie to split up.", in their OP?` Edit: My only real point here is that "entire new pie" is a bankrupt concept. It has no real substance. There is "stuff we can do to improve things", but those have costs (and I'm not talking about monetary).