Quote Originally Posted by spoonitnow View Post
Someone just outed themselves.

To give you an example to hopefully think about, a voluntary transaction between two informed individuals creates value for both of them. The amount of wealth available after the transaction between those two is greater than the amount of wealth available before the transaction.
As long as we're thinking in terms of value. Hard monetary wealth would not change in this case, but yes both parties would be better off. And since monetary wealth is meant as a proxy of better off-ness, you are thinking about it more in terms of the way it should be thought about.