i’d push back on @kevinerdmann.bsky.social’s background presumption that people who think the economy is rigged tend to believe it’s zero-sum. a lot of social democrats think the economy is presently rigged, but gigantic positive-sum free lunches are within reach via intelligent public action.

(a challenge is that “positive sum” and “pareto improvement” are not the same thing, and there are a lot of veto points to public action where those who think they might be losers from positive-sum interventions can intervene.)