well, there are positive-sum games. also, it may turn out that acquiring power is more complicated, in an almost fundamentally benevolent way, than grabbing an object from someone else and pulling in hard with your arms; people don’t like ceding power to individuals who seem myopically selfish.
keep in mind that one persons modus tollens is anothers modus ponens, and i provided no indication as to what update i prefer people make from reading my observation
well, there are positive-sum games. also, it may turn out that acquiring power is more complicated, in an almost fundamentally benevolent way, than grabbing an object from someone else and pulling in hard with your arms; people don’t like ceding power to individuals who seem myopically selfish.
keep in mind that one persons modus tollens is anothers modus ponens, and i provided no indication as to what update i prefer people make from reading my observation
i think my preference is “both at once” or something like that