> I'm not sure why you chose to you battles for your examples, they are zero-sum. Because power relations between groups is a zero sum game. > With regards to

> I'm not sure why you chose to you battles for your examples, they are zero-sum. Because power relations between groups is a zero sum game. > With regards to progress only being relative, I think most people who get amazing medical treatments, will disagree with you. I didn't say progress was relative. I didn't even mention relative. I specifically mention the wealth gap and the growing disparity between the rich and the rest and the uneven power disparity. Hence my examples of battle. I was sure someone would bring up "zero-sum" but not the way you brought it up by misunderstanding my comment. The garden variety "zero-sum" response would justify the wealthy getting the lion share of wealth and everyone getting crumbs because everyone is still better off. And normally, I'd respond that if the wealthy got crumbs and the rest got the lion share, everyone would still be better off. You replaced one straw man with another.