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The scarcity mindset you're displaying is the hallmark of the left. I don't know what you're a member of but I know that's what the entire left wing ideology is built upon.
Wealth is not a zero sum game. The pie grows and shrinks depending on how many people are available to work.
BTW I'm thinking money and I'm thinking resources, and both are very real. The more people there are, the more we can develop our planet's natural resources. The more people you have to work the farm, the more food we can grow. The more people we have to work in oil and gas, the more we can develop that resource.
Resources are very plentiful. It's just a matter of having the skilled labor to develop those resources.
As long as the environment is considered an externality when it comes to input costs, our economic way of life will indeed always be a zero sum game.
Can you explain exactly how people can develop the planet's natural resources, in terms of adding to them? AFAIK we can't make something from nothing.