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We often compete with and demonize our colleagues or family members.
However, proximity and familiarity are tragic standards upon which to focus your destructive drives. Instead, you should consider the broader world in which you must ultimately succeed.
To win over your family, classroom, or office is a small-minded and hollow victory. To work against your comrades is to sabotage your stability.
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“The people there are only there to make money, so we went home before sundown.”
A direct quote from a friend who went to Tulum, Mexico, where the sacred is commoditized until the tourists are scared.
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Capitalism allowed all men to be equal rather than blindly despised.
The traditional tribal divisions of race, religion, nationality, and gender were supplanted by individual virtues of ambition, merit, and commerce. Necessarily, destructive tendencies emerge, yet trade made others potentially valuable. Thus consideration replaced prejudice.
