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Almost everything has been infected by a zero-sum mindset in the US. Some other group of country wins means I must be losing, etc. The administration doesn’t s
by softwaredoug 2y ago
Almost everything has been infected by a zero-sum mindset in the US. Some other group of country wins means I must be losing, etc.
The administration doesn’t see that the entire world order is built on many positive sum relationships and coalitions that the US has asymmetrically benefited from. And the same goes for social order. Wealthy people suddenly see themselves as victims(?) of their employees, and investors blame entitled tech employees for companies problems. When the reality is that employee and management - and social classes - benefit economically by supporting each other.
- jauntywundrkind 2y agoNon-zero: the Logic of Human Destiny was a very influential book for me growing up, talking about how society's very premise is non-zero sum thinking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonzero:_The_Logic_of_Human_Destiny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonzero:_The_Logic_of_Human_De... Thanks for this idea suggestion, this spin. Its a framing that, now that I see it, maps well & explain so much. The limited world view is collapsing our world, in horrible ways. Mankind became better than the animals because we grew to encompass more than short transactional views of ourselves, and it's so heartbreaking watching vicious dark side anger unmake the core of spirit that propelled us so far.