Zero-Sum Game Thinking Hard or Hardly Thinking

If you challenge yourself to truly examine your deeply held and subconscious beliefs about the nature of economics I suspect you will find a tension, perhaps a number of them. And I think these tensions boil down to the competing sense that money, value, currency, compensation, whatever you want to call it, is either abundant and ever-expanding, or limited, scarce and zero-sum. If you are truly able to observe what you actually believe about money in all sorts of situations, and at different levels in your thought patterns, I can almost guarantee you will find scarcity in some places, and abundance in others. The fact is it’s a complicated question, and might have a few twists and turns that you haven’t yet thought about. To me there are few questions more fascinating than whether economics is a matter of abundance or if it’s really just a zero-sum game. Indeed, every conviction hold and prescription we offer about work ethic, policy, and international relations hinges on this very question at their very heart.
We’ll be exploring all of that and more today on Thinking Hard, or Hardly Thinking. Learn more about Aaron at www.aaronjmarx.com Read/listen to the Entrepreneurial Manifesto: https://www.aaronjmarx.com/manifesto