> We live on a planet with finite resources; everything here is zero-sum. This isn't even true at a cosmic scale, let alone in human scales. Planet Earth recei

> We live on a planet with finite resources; everything here is zero-sum. This isn't even true at a cosmic scale, let alone in human scales. Planet Earth receives exogenous energy from the sun. You want an example of creating value from nothing? Say your choice this evening was to sit on the couch and do nothing versus charge your neighbor $20 to clean up his yard of fallen leaves. By choosing the latter, you have created $20 of value for your neighbor where none existed before. > Some people are just better at socializing their harmful byproducts. This is trivially true, but you make the great leap of equating all wealth creation to an arbitrage in externalities.