Your theory is just that - a theory. If the sum totals of (each) money and goods and services and people on earth were static, perhaps there could be a 'zero-sum-game' as you describe. However, that hasn't been the state of reality since money was invented.
Second point: monies (credits/tokens) that are saved do not consume anything while in 'storage'. The total of goods/services available to others isn't reduced until the spending of the money occurs.
Third: ultimately, with more people (220,000+ net daily) and shrinking natural wealth upon which all economies depend, the average slice gets smaller - modified only by technological efficiency which temporarily increases average slice size.
Yes, some of us who choose to try (compete) are lucky, powerful, or clever enough to amass the power (tokens/credits) to access larger slices. That doesn't mean that the consumption rises to the max; nor does it mean that someone else's slice necessarily shrinks. It does probably mean, though, that more resources and enerrgy will be used (and waste created) sometime. Whenever that is, depending on many variables, it is likely that the pie will shrink accordingly.
Your characterization of winners in this game as evil or base in character is a prejudice which is not new. Scapegoats have been sought throughout history when times got tough. The Jews in particular were targeted. Meanwhile there are billions ready to consume every morsel that others don't. Water and oil wars are current, as are famine and epidemic. Dogmas/creeds are merely a convenient excuse for war in many cases. Face it, there ain't enough to go around, and the self-cull is natural, although highly unpleasant.
Best,
Steve
I believe that for every advancement by one person another person loses. That the amounts of money and property are roughly equivelent at all times and that most increases in wealth are based upon luck, theft or the cultivation of a venal attitude that reduces most human sensitivities.
-- http://populationinstitute.ca http://www.scientists4pr.org/ Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.—Kenneth Boulding
