Oil pricing became a zero-sum game: every rise in prices benefited producers at the cost of consumers, and every reduction in price benefited consumers at the expense of producers.

石油定价变成了一个零和博弈：每次价格的上涨使得生产者获益，消费者受损，每次价格的下跌则使消费者获益，生产者受损。

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In times of austerity, questions would be raised over the cost of any new royal yacht at the expense of the taxpayers.

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Tariffs raise our cost of living while subsidizing the least efficient at the expense of the most, and they also retard our natural economic evolution for depriving us of ideas.

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Our constant drive for selfish over-consumption at any cost, to benefit the few at the expense of the many and at the expense of Nature itself, is the real illness in our society that is causing all of this imbalance.

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