> What you just described is a zero sum game. Not if the amounts are different. > Capability and intelligence are starkly contrasted by luck and birth, and th

> What you just described is a zero sum game. Not if the amounts are different. > Capability and intelligence are starkly contrasted by luck and birth, and this is a problem. One creates meritocracy, the other monarchy Yes, and that is unfortunate. I don't have the numbers at hand, but at least in US, it's still on capability side, if I remember well. Not sure about Europe. > It can also be generated out of nothing, and by destroying wealth a la broken window fallacy. Sure, it can. Yet an interventional/evil government must be taken outside of this argument I think, just as e.g. thermonuclear war. The rules indeed break down then.