The Deadly Economic Sins - Is Wealth a Positive Sum Game?

In a market economy, if people's persons are protected, so you can't enslave me or kill me, then the only way that i can get anything i want from you is with your voluntary consent. So these are mutually voluntary and therefore also mutually beneficial. I benefit myself, but at your expense, at somebody else's expense. If you didn't think i made you a proposal, and you didn't thought it was worth your time or was worth, you know, whatever you would give up to get it, you have the right to say, no, thank you and go somewhere else. And if that choice has been made by both of us, well then any kind of exchange