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Also note that we're 8 billion people living on a much higher average material living standard than when we were 2 billion 100 years ago.


No one is arguing that such a thing as wealth creation doesn't exist. The question is about who or what creates it.

Which is a topic of intense discussion in economics over the last few hundred years, BTW, and the discussion here so far has shockingly few references to those.




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