Ep 12: These Are a Few of Our Favourite Quotes

All right, Amit and Shruti.

So, you know, first of all, this quotes idea came to me because I do maintain a list of many of these quotes.

I'm sure you all do as well.

So on my Obsidian, I generally have many of these quotes or something which you find funny, etc.

Because I think it's a good idea to have some of these quotes on your fingertips.

It always helps.

So I will begin with one idea, which is sort of profound.

And the quote goes something like this.

There's no such thing as haves versus have nots.

Instead, there are haves and want to haves.

And I heard, I actually don't know who said this.

I heard this in a conference.

It really was a light bulb moment for me because this is really trying to put confrontation and competition and distinguish between them, right? Because generally, you will see this idea used so often in public policy or politics that, you know, there is haves and have nots.

And it really puts against like, total zero sum game, there's no possibility of positive sum game, it's just two people fighting against each other.

And the haves, have-nots can only achieve something at the cost of haves.

Whereas when you look at it from this lens, that there are haves and there are want-to-haves, it really puts a different lens, right? That people aspire, even the want-to-haves want to have what the haves have.

And in that sense, it's not that adversarial.

Of course, there's competition.

There's cooperation potentially also.

So I like this.

What do you guys think?

I love this and I can tell why Shruti is smiling because she was applying that filter to this.

But I love this.

It makes a lot of sense.

But one critical thing to note here is that it also depends on how much social mobility there is in a society.