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Originally Posted by Michael Chui  If the result of a decision is Lose/Win (He got a meal, but now I can't pay my bills), then it's really no better than Win/Lose (I have money, but he's in the cold).
Scarcity suggests that you need to hold onto what you have and get more in case you lose it.
Abundance suggests that there's no reason to hoard your belongings and you can always get more so it's not a big deal to give some of it away. |
That's beautiful. Abundance makes so much more sense when you include the other players in the economy. When the fear of not having enough leads to competition and hoarding, scarcity results.
Saving money that you earn halts the flow of exchange. The money that you receive comes from someone else who produced value and passed the reward on to you. Keep the money for too long and you stop the flow, use it wisely such that more value production results and abundance is increased.
Worse than saving however is spending frivolouslyto feed greed and imbalances of emotion, health, etc.
Of course if you don't have any money to use or invest, you can focus on the value that you have to offer. Every experience, awareness, thought and action are a contribution to abundance or scarcity. Fiscal irresponsibility doesn't support abundance. Caring for your own well being, the well being of others and our sustainability as a whole does.