Imagine if Jimmy Carter had believed in a zero-sum world—where one person’s gain meant another’s loss. If that were true, philanthropy would be pointless, and volunteers would be wasting their time on those “others” (you know, the hungry, the homeless, the sick, the struggling… no big deal, right?). If you’re not familiar with the term, it refers to a belief that “any gain by one party must come at an equal loss to another, meaning that the total amount of resources is ...

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