Destruction is Expensive

DESTROYING something very rarely leads to positive outcomes for anyone involved.

Destruction is a very inefficient use of time and energy.

The exact opposite of creation.

If you spend your life, working to IMPROVE the lives of your neighbors.

If you spend your ENTIRE LIFE to the benefit of those around you,

It is nearly impossible for your own life to not benefit.

Creation is very cheap in the sense that all the energy you spend to CREATE often finds its way back to you in the end.

The man who waters his neighbors' gardens while neglecting his own will often find his own garden catch some of the water,

It is very hard to stay poor when everyone around you, everyone in your city, your country, your world, is rich.

Energy is STICKY.

Destructive energy is the same.

The man who spends his whole life plotting to set fire to his neighbor's garden cannot afford to neglect watering his own.

In fact, he needs to be extremely cautious.

He needs to SPEND even more energy to try and negate a simple fact,

Fire spreads.

If you ever look at the richest men in the world, you'll find one thing in common and it is no mistake.

They've BENEFITED their neighbors.

They've made lives better.

It would be extremely challenging to benefit the lives of hundreds of millions of people and not reciprocate any of that goodwill back.

Energy is sticky,

Contagious.

Destruction is very rarely the right move.

It is extremely expensive.

When you want your own garden to grow, it is almost never wise to indulge in fire.

And you can very rarely go wrong spending your time indulging in growth, even if not your own.

Win-win is the language of the elites.

Win-lose is the language of the poor.

Act accordingly.

- Tate