Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
For example, the concepts often found in political discussion include that an economy is a zero-sum game (it's not). Those concepts are probably a faulty base from which some people derive their faulty prescriptions.
By zero-sum, do you mean the argument is stated as if there's only so much wealth to go around? How is this not true? I can see that more wealth can always be generated but not that the amount of extant wealth at point X in time can be altered. Or maybe that's besides the point.