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And what I'm saying is that these statements aren't related. Yes, some people don't have enough pie. Yes, other people are getting even bigger slices of the bigger pie. But the latter is not what's causing the former.

In fact, it's generally the opposite. The forces that are allowing people to get bigger slices of a bigger pie (investments in science, engineering, and technology, driven by market competition) are also what are driving the pie to increase in size, and giving more pie to everyone.

Global poverty has been decreasing at an incredible rate. Widespread famine has disappeared. There's more cheap access to transportation, medicine, food, and entertainment than ever before. Almost everyone's pie is increasing.

I don't understand why you would prefer a world in which people have less pie, just so it could be more equal to others' pie.





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