> > Yes you can make money, but only because someone else loses money.
>
> You don't make money if it's only someone who loses--it has to be more
> than one... preferably far more than one.


Why not?
If you lose at playing cards and I win, I made money while you lost it.
And if the number of millionaires double in one year, many others will get
poorer.
It's the same as in any equation.
That's how the royals in Europe became so rich. First they stole everything
from their subjects, then a few became very rich while many got poorer by
the same degree.


Sigi