Compulsive shoppers, yes. Ordinary people, no. Ordinary people simply prefer the goods they are buying over the money they are paying. They do not immediately sell the goods at a loss and then repeat the cycle. Preferring A to B does not create a money pump. Preferring A to B and B to A, that is a money pump.
Shops. The habitual buyer would prefer to have money than not, and would prefer to purchase goods than not.
Compulsive shoppers, yes. Ordinary people, no. Ordinary people simply prefer the goods they are buying over the money they are paying. They do not immediately sell the goods at a loss and then repeat the cycle. Preferring A to B does not create a money pump. Preferring A to B and B to A, that is a money pump.
Precisely my point.