Quote from: Fakeman on July 05, 2011, 04:35:41 PM

Quote from: killer2021 on July 05, 2011, 10:10:07 AM

The people who believe that wealth is not unlimited are the same people who think that if one person is becoming wealthly it is done so at the expense of others. This is the belief that encompasses the idea that, "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer." Which is totally false because the standard of living for any society is based on the amount of goods and services produced. So if someone is creating lots of wealth in the form of producing lots of goods and services then that person is making everyone's life better because we now have more goods and services to consume.

It's not the quantity of goods alone that improves quality of life. How are the masses of discarded low-quality goods piled in landfills improving anyone's quality of life?

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Same thing happens when you say "This country is prosperous because it has a hight GBP index". And it is a total fallacy.