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In the short term investments are zero sum though.



Wikipedia disagrees with that:

> Nevertheless, the situation like the stock market etc. is not a zero-sum game because investors could gain profit or loss from share price influences by profit forecasts or economic outlooks rather than gain profit from other investors' losses.




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