coercion wants to maintain scarcity for others; co-creation wants abundance for all
- thoughts from a blog post
- a key difference:
- if I'm engaging in a coercive strategy, I prefer for the other person to stay in a state of scarcity & desperation, so I can keep exploiting them!
- if I'm using a collaborative or co-creative strategy, I prefer for them to access a state of abundance, from which I expect us to be able to find even better win-wins!
- This implies that to the extent that a given culture isn't skilled at finding win-wins (not just compromises) then the people in that culture will naturally tend to feel threatened by others' abundance, because it increases the possibility that they themselves may end up getting coerced.