If that is where your mind is at and you haven't encountered praxeology yet, I'm sorry and you are welcome for teaching you the word. @knutsvanholm wrote a book on the subject that I quite liked. The very condensed version is taking econ I repeatedly found myself thinking "except not really because that is a bad generalization or assumption." Praxeology is the formalization of all my objections to econ with explanations that make sense. We are mentally primed to obsess over the zero sum games because loss aversion studies repeatedly show we hurt more to unexpectedly lose 20ksat than we feel joy by unexpectedly finding 20ksat.