That assumes a zero sum game, which is not how the world actually works.
Which is why China could go from $1.x trillion to $11.x trillion in GDP in just ~17 years, while the US - the world's largest economy - simultaneously still managed to add $8+ trillion to its GDP.
Global and local economic growth makes it possible to absorb slack labor. Which is why we have 7+ billion people on earth, while simultaneously the global median income has been rising for decades nearly non-stop, the global median living standard is at an all-time high, and famines are at an all-time low.
If it worked in any regard as a zero sum game, most of those people would be dead or never would have existed in the first place.
Which is why China could go from $1.x trillion to $11.x trillion in GDP in just ~17 years, while the US - the world's largest economy - simultaneously still managed to add $8+ trillion to its GDP.
Global and local economic growth makes it possible to absorb slack labor. Which is why we have 7+ billion people on earth, while simultaneously the global median income has been rising for decades nearly non-stop, the global median living standard is at an all-time high, and famines are at an all-time low.
If it worked in any regard as a zero sum game, most of those people would be dead or never would have existed in the first place.