Then I will posit this: There is a maximum amount of US dollars in the world at any one time we measure it. We shall call this A. The wealthy 1% own .1A . That

Then I will posit this: There is a maximum amount of US dollars in the world at any one time we measure it. We shall call this A. The wealthy 1% own .1A . That leaves, by simple averages that 99% can only have .9A . US Dollars are being made at X per hour. This 'wealth generation' devalues the preexisting currency forcing money to follow this formula A => A+X The value that A was before is now what A+X has to be. Anybody who owned A before wealth 'generation' now owns less. Yes, I would call our system zero-sum for increasingly small amounts of capital. It is only when you can bypass the marginilization of X is it not zero sum.