Revolution 2.0

Introduction In politics and life, we are all-too-often taught that we live in a world with a fixed amount of resources, a pie for example, and that if we want some it must come from someone else’s portion, leaving them with less. Even worse, we are told that if someone else, Jeff Bezos at Amazon or Sam Walton’s heirs at Walmart want more, that it must come from us, leaving us with less. That deliberately false and dangerous thinking is the subject of today’s 10-minute podcast. Continuing There are parts of life where the resources, the prizes, are a fixed size. If you want yours, then someone else gets shorted. But those are the exceptions, not the way life is designed to be lived. Sports is an example of an exception. If you win, get the pie if you will, the other person or team must lose. That’s called a Zero Sum Game. Overall, this means that if you are going to win, someone else must lose. Like in sports or gambling. If you or your team is going to win, for example, a basketball game, the other pers