Official statistics also fail to capture the benefit of the increasing choice consumers enjoy.

ECONOMIST: A survey of the new economy

Copycats do none of the work of developing new ideas but capture much of the benefit.

WSJ: In Praise of the Copycats: The Knockoff Economy

Benefit claims are also undermined when firms capture the regulator and actively support rules, subsidies and interventions that benefit them at the expense of non-politically connected rivals.

FORBES: Federal Regulation: The Costs of Benefits

Those that do may argue that there is a benefit to owning more funds in that there is the possibility to capture taxable losses.

FORBES: How Many Mutual Funds Should You Own?

And even when companies do capture content with audio or video, they rarely figure out how to leverage their libraries for the benefit of employees, partners, customers and their bottom line.

FORBES: Written by Ted Cocheu