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>Every positive comes with a negative, nothing is created nothing is destroyed.

>Chemistry found it to be so in the physical ___domain, confucians in the spiritual ___domain, and accountants in the wealth ___domain.

This is a platitude that has no bearing on reality. Technological advance in the past 2 centuries has increase our wealth and standards of living by orders of magnitude. You can come up with token objections about how each advancement had some downsides (indoor plumbing is bad because... copper mines pollute the environment?), but it's certainly not the case that "nothing is created nothing is destroyed". Technological advancement has created untold wealth.




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