YEs, it’s to get you to believe there is a pie to fight over. Consider that World Bank forecasted that between 2010 to 2050 the world economy would quadruple in size from $55 trillion GDP to $210 trillion, then you can see that the wealth is growing, not shrinking, but since the general populace is locked into the idea that the pie is the same size, they are will divide themselves to fight over it.