May 24, 2021

Fundamental divide is symptomatic of Zero-Sum Game thinking. "Me versus Everyone Else"

Progressives are all about Positive-Sum Game thinking. Raise the tide and all boats rise. High quality education for all means the workforce can accomplish so much more. Childcare raises healthy happy people who can together lift society. Universal healthcare keeps people productive. Basic income means less funding needed for police, a net win.

If a bright med student heading toward research has to drop out to go to work to pay for healthcare for a parent, society loses -- big time.

Conservatives, especially RepliQons, want to keep society warped so they can build massive helicopters to raise their boats and only their boats.

What they do is try to hoard slices of the pie and in the scramble the pie gets damaged, so it becomes a NEGATIVE-SUM game and a race to the bottom.

This is the fundamental divide: working together versus working competitively for your family ONLY.