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Winning isn’t always coming first. There are many ways to win in life and not all of them have to come at the expense of others.
In sport there can only be one winner for every title. They give out a gold medal to the person who comes in first but there is a podium built for three. There is room for multiple winners and it can be argued that there doesn’t have to be any losers in that situation.
While only one person can take home the gold medal and be the champion of that discipline you can win by getting to the final. There are many different disciplines. You can race in multiple different lengths, formats, adaption’s of a race.
We aren’t all in direct competition with other runners. We are all trying to get to the same place and there is more than one spot at the finish line. You can win by beating your personal goals, expectations or records. Every time that you go out and compete you can make that a win. Some people never even get to that point. Some people never even try to play.
Crypto has an attitude that I have noticed where everybody wants to win at the expense of all the rest. The want to get that gold medal but rather than just get over the finish line first, they seem to want to eliminate all the competition before the line. I don’t get that attitude.
Sure I love to win but where is the fun without good competition. It’s that competition for places that drives the level of the sport. That push to win that makes you go harder and faster because if you don’t then you will be overtaken.
Even the toughest competitors need others to train and improve with. Before competitions they run against each other in private to see how good they really are. They study each other’s practises and take what is good to adapt for their own.
Even in competition there is co-operation. The best athletes grow as a group and not just on their own. The real difference is in the last few yards. Those extra minutes put in when everybody else has finished. Those little sacrifices to put everything into the competition. That is what makes champions out of the winners.
As the underdogs in finance and technology, blockchains should be trying to build together rather than tear each other down. There is a lot of room at that finish line which we can all reach with some help and competition. We should drive each other to new and greater heights. We should work together and copy what works from each other. There huge room for growth out there and no need to fight over scraps. Together we are competitive but on our own we are all shouting into the void.
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Creating Wealth is a positive sum game. Everyone in the world can have a house. Because you have a house doesn’t take away from my ability to have a house.
In zero-sum game, For #2 to be #1, #1 has to move out of that slot.
Most Sports to be a winner, someone has to lose.
Hive community is playing a positive sum game and When Hive hits $5 we all win
Absolutely. We can all grow as a community and win together. Hive and crypto. The end goal is a better spread of wealth for everybody willing to work towards it instead of a funnel to the 1% and large corporations. We are trying to spread out the win for more people.
Now you sound like my wife.
I think a lot of this is a carry over from our conditioning - we have been trained to believe that the only way to win is to defeat others - be stronger, faster or have more.
Compete means to "strive for something together", no one said all couldn't succeed.
I imagine it like a sprinter asking the question "How fast can I run?" To really test that means to improve to full potential, which likely means learning from others (cooperation) and having them push or pull to introduce stress to improve. To be ones true best likely requires a whole host of information and resources that an individual doesn't possess without the building of others.
Your wife sounds like a very smart and intelligent person that you should always listen to.
It's a mentality issue. At the moment the mentality is to get as much as you can and show it off to everybody. I'm not sure when it started but growing up the mentality was to be part of the community and work together. We never had too much or too little but had to work hard for all of it. The good thing was that you could work for what you wanted.
Now you have people like Jeff Bezos with more billions than he will ever spend and yet his staff might never buy a house or become comfortable and secure in life. His empire is built on the suffering of other. He could still be massively rich and pay his staff enough to be financially secure for their futures but that is not the mentality of these people. That is what we need to change and create a win for the community.
That is what I hope crypto brings to the table, a better distribution of wealth. Their will always be rich and poor but there is actually enough for everybody if the opportunities were there to be had.
I agree, but it isn't Jeff Bezos' fault - it is the engineered system that allows for him to do it. THere ae millions of people doing similar, but not quite at the same level. Bezos changing doesn't do much, the entire broken economy and incentive structure needs to be scrapped and reimagined - but that is what we are here for :)
That is what we are hoping to change any way. Give people another option as together we are much stronger than a single entity. There is power in numbers so if enough people want to switch to decentralized systems and change the game. It will happen.
I figure it is a process of degree - small steps by many people. One might join Hive, another start playing a game on Ethereum, and the rare few on voice EOS. bit by bit, they start to intertwine.
To the world of crypto The most important thing in life is not the triumph or victory it is the struggle.
The most essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
Sometimes the struggle is what makes it worthwhile. A hard won victory is far more satisfying.