>It's not like there is a fixed number of jobs mined from the soil of each country. This is so true. It applies to any system with competition. People tend to

>It's not like there is a fixed number of jobs mined from the soil of each country. This is so true. It applies to any system with competition. People tend to treat things like jobs and startups like natural resources, and tend to assume that competition is necessarily bad. In reality, feedback processes and strong interactions between players turn economies into highly unpredictable emergent phenomena. It's more like a flock of geese than an elementary chemical reaction. For such large systems, it's hard to tell what the Nash equilibrium is, and whether it matches with the optimum global outcome. Animals (especially humans) have evolved to cooperate well in small groups (e.g. tribes, families). Over larger scales (e.g. countries, between language families), we have a strange balance between distrust, competition, and compassion.