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There's absolutely no zero sum assumption in my parable. The normal Smithian invisible hand (positive sum) stuff operates. Specialisation and trade add value. Nothing zero sum about it.

What DOES go beyond the usual (simple) Smithian world is the impact of risk on the correlation between effort, productivity, and resulting income. In the fairly deterministic world (Fruitopia), effort and productivity and (finally) income are quite clearly linked. In the more stochastic world (Oilivia), people put in effort, but it's only partially linked to the final outcomes.

People who won't explain themselves when they hurt you aren't worth your time.

Hey - just wanted to let you know it's nice to find someone else who is interested in stem cell research and knows a bit about it. The work your brother is doing is really amazing, I had a bit about that sort of thing but didn't realize how advanced it already was.

I work with people who are doing neural stem cell research so I know a little bit about that but it seems like the mesenchymal cell research is way more advanced than neural stem cells in terms of directed therapeutics. Very cool stuff though.

That one is supposed to indicate something is surreal. It gets misused a fair amount.