But I do try to keep my ear to the ground as far as what profiles are being sold and what profiles are being bought. And also other sorts of phenomena, like the shortening life-span of a career. We're living in a time when the relationship to a career as a commodity has become very different. And that may be more interesting if I knew exactly what kind of music that person's making. That provides a good segue to ask questions about Gain and capitalism.
Someone has to go down for anyone else to rise.
The line is pointed, and it definitely has great application to lots of ways that we live. In fact, the broader truth is that trade isn't a zero sum gain. And that's kind of astonishing. There are moments in the book that try to revive this sense of awe at the notion that you can take a pound of fat and make two pounds of soap out of it. You can take one of the pounds of soap and sell it, and take the other pound of soap and trade it for a pound of fat.