From Robin Hanson via Tyler Cowen

Top blog post http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/questions-for-great-divides.html

If you ask me it’s little more than an artifact of the ancient doctrine; That no one can ever truly gain by cooperating as one man’s gain is always another’s loss. It is this illusion that causes the false dichotomy of rich vs. poor and probably all the others too.