"Winners" are the problem

In the introduction to a recent Sunday Night Football episode, the narrator said, "Good things do not come to those who wait.  Winners take what they want."  This sounds great in the context of football, competition, and testosterone. Sports are about winning; about fighting for victory.  There can be only one winner.  Second place is the first loser.  And so on.

Unfortunately,  this mentality is transferred from sports to the rest of life.  When we are driving in rush hour traffic, we cut people off or don't let people move in front of us because we have to be first.  If someone is giving away free stuff, we grab as much as we can not thinking (or should i say not caring) about the people in the line behind us.  In business, people at the top get the highest salaries and best perks.  The farther down the chain a person is, the smaller their share of the profits are.

This is the problem in America and the world.  This is we had black lives matter protests.  This is why there is inequality. 

The problem is not rich people who do not pay their fair share of taxes.  The problem is people who feel entitled to take more than their fair share of the prosperity that this country enjoys.  They call themselves winners because they are in positions of power.  Their goals are to climb the ladder and maximize their income.  Only so many people can be managers.  There is only so much money for salaries.  There are only so many winners.  Everyone else gets to fight over the leftovers.

It does not need to be this way.