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Re:Predictions holds true: "Facebook is a Ponzi Scheme" by jerf on Thursday May 17, 2012 @04:32PM (#3988942)
"If you grow faster than the GDP, you're most likely cannibalizing other businesses."

That sounds an awful lot like zero-sum thinking.

Re:Predictions holds true: "Facebook is a Ponzi Scheme" by vannevar on Thursday May 17, 2012 @07:36PM (#3989675)
No, just simple mathematics. It's certainly possible for a company to actually create wealth faster than the average rate, but it's much more likely to be cannibalizing. Were it otherwise, of course, average economic growth would be higher. There is nothing contradictory in saying that most business growth comes from creative destruction (ie, cannibalization) and also that the net sum of business activity produces slow growth.