> The only way our economy works is when there are winners and losers. If everyone’s a winner, the whole thing fails. If by winning the author means artificial

> The only way our economy works is when there are winners and losers. If everyone’s a winner, the whole thing fails. If by winning the author means artificially living without constraints and if losing means retaining some restraints then the conclusion might be valid but that is not how this paragraph reads. Winning in life is removing restraints, improving conditions, not trying to drink from the firehose of irrational exuberance. It is absolutely possible to have almost no real losers economically in the current US economic system albeit with unequally positive outcomes. The fact that we do have (economic) losers is a scandal because it’s unnecessary.