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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by sneak on Saturday August 30, 2025 @07:43PM (#45079007)
When people see everything as an ego-based competition, they lose track entirely of the fact that trade is not zero-sum: both parties (or nations) benefit from increased trade.

It’s the zero-sum mindset of leadership that only ever learned to excel by cheating and stealing, not cooperating, building, or synergizing.

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by niek_pas on Sunday August 31, 2025 @03:52AM (#45081301)
And unfortunately, it is exactly the Gorilla chest-pounding politicians “we are #1” that attract particular large swaths of the voting population who tend to see everything as a “me first” zero-sum competition.
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