Maggie's Farm

From Bidinotto (h/t Insty): Election 2012 and the Clash of Narratives - "Why Let the Rich Hoard All the Toys?"

Besides going after the infantile zero-sum narrative on economics, he extols the miracle of growth and productivity - the growing pie.  One quote:

It was not until the Agricultural Revolution that men began to break free of the zero-sum existence of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. For the first time, production allowed men to increase the food supply—to expand the size of the "pie." No longer did one person's gain entail another person's deprivation. With the gradual increase of production under a division of labor, and with free trade among those producing specialized goods, the "pie" of wealth began to grow rapidly. With the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions, living standards, which had remained at subsistence levels since the dawn of man's presence on Earth, suddenly began to soar, and so did life expectancy.

But while the zero-sum social world was disappearing, the zero-sum Narrative did not vanish from the minds of men.