"In a free-market economy, the money to grow a business would need to come from within the economy, from the paychecks of consumers or the expropriation of land, in a game that would be zero-sum if not for the fictional capital of loans and debt, but in nature, a wealth of nutrients comes from outside in the inflationary supply, if you like, of sunlight."
A farm (a business) grow potatoes. It then has enough potatoes to trade it for a tractor. It uses the tractor to increase its production (grow its business). Nature isn't zero-sum and the free-market economy isn't zero-sum either.
"In a free-market economy, the money to grow a business would need to come from within the economy, from the paychecks of consumers or the expropriation of land, in a game that would be zero-sum if not for the fictional capital of loans and debt, but in nature, a wealth of nutrients comes from outside in the inflationary supply, if you like, of sunlight."
A farm (a business) grow potatoes. It then has enough potatoes to trade it for a tractor. It uses the tractor to increase its production (grow its business). Nature isn't zero-sum and the free-market economy isn't zero-sum either.