Every good person wants to fight racism.

Nobody is talking about a pervasive myth that, if we all finally stopped believing it, would be a major step in combating racism.

If we all stopped believing the bullshit that economics is a zero-sum game, we could make leaps forward in combating racism.

I know that it's a tough pill for people to swallow. It's easier to believe that you're only poor because rich people stole something from you. It's easier to believe that your preferred economic system of socialism is only failing because of evil, capitalist, western prosperity and greed.

Still, we all have to swallow the fucking pill.

Claiming that economics is a zero-sum game is a logical absurdity. If it were true, economic growth wouldn't be possible. If it were true, the population bomb would have happened. The population bomb didn't happen, we became more prosperous. Humanity is the only species on earth that becomes more prosperous as we become more populous. That can't be true if we're all fighting for our share of a fixed pot.

Got it? This isn't a zero-sum game.

The myth of the zero-sum game has driven racism for millenia. For white supremacists, it manifests in the idea that people of color are leaching off of the resources that whites are entitled to.

For the over-schooled people, it manifests as hatred for what Thomas Sowell referred to as "middleman minorities."

The only reason why a person with an IQ above room temperature can ejaculate the rhetoric about Israel being "stolen land" with a straight face is because he or she has to believe it. The only fathomable reason why the Jews could be doing so well is if they stole from someone else. This is nothing new. A great deal of the hatred directed toward Jews in Europe was driven by people being pissed off that the Jews were successful despite laws against them owning property.

The Turks hated the Armenians because the Armenians were generally successful.

There's hatred toward Chinese immigrants because they tend to do well when they manage to move out of that socialist nightmare.

So much of racism through out history comes from people looking at different racial groups, and thinking that they're either inferior leaches, or they're shifty, and manipulative -- either way, their group is taking something that should belong to you and your group.

If we finally stopped believing this myth, we could take a massive step forward.