>How is the world poorer after I spent a trillion dollars to keep a few million workers busy for a few years? To bring this conversation around, in what way does a player transfer make the world poorer?

It feels like I answered this many times already, and we keep beating the same dead horse. It's is like a DDOS for the economy, this hole metaphor. The world is poorer because the time, labour and money which went into hole could have been spent on something productive. Instead of a player transfer money could have went into something like a fusion reactor, which brings cheaper energy instead of a show-off. Of course, everyone is free to do what they want with their wealth, just as I am free to criticise their decisions, because I want my kids to live in a world of prosperity, not in a world of excavators.