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Can you elaborate how the world is not zero sum? We live in a clearly round planet thats completely isolated except for a daily dose of sunlight. Again this sun
by ramraj07 5y ago
Can you elaborate how the world is not zero sum? We live in a clearly round planet thats completely isolated except for a daily dose of sunlight. Again this sunlight isn't going to change.
You might argue that it's not zero sum for practical purposes, but to me it looks very decidedly zero sum in many different dimensions (usable land, co2 release, fresh water, many minerals, list goes on).
- qsort 5y agoonus probandi incumbit ei qui dicit, non ei qui negat. But anyway. Utility isn't measured in amount of land used or CO2 emitted or minerals extracted. This is not a Starcraft game. Using land better increases the sum. Making energy production more efficient increases the sum. Zero-sum means that any of my gains is someone else's loss, which is not how any human society has ever worked. A zero-sum world implies that any form of human cooperation that isn't literally war is impossible, which doesn't empirically seem to be the case.