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by grosjona 2877 days ago
That's why I also hate the typical CEO/entrepreneur mindset; a lot of them think that they're helping to grow the pie and taking a small slice for themselves as a reward - In reality, the pie doesn't actually grow and each time that they take out a slice, there is less pie remaining for everyone else.

Corporate stocks are not actually growing in value, it's just the entire money supply which is being diluted for the benefit of corporations at the expense of everything else.
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csense 2876 days ago
> In reality, the pie doesn't actually grow and each time that they take out a slice, there is less pie remaining for everyone else.

If the pie doesn't really grow, why has the world economic output increased so much in the last 200 years?

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grosjona 2876 days ago
How does one measure that? With fiat currency? By the total number of goods produced? How does the quality of output fit into this model?

If you get more of something but quality is lower then it's not necessarily progress. You might need more of that thing to get the same value out of it.

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