So I want to start by reminding us that there is enough of everything for everyone. Right? And anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to scare you. Right? They’re trying to pick up that fear that we have that there won’t be enough for ourselves or our families or our community. And they’re trying to use that because they’re hoarding wealth and power. And if we’re fighting amongst ourselves, then we’re not fighting that. Right? So that shows up in many spaces. Immigration is the most commonly referenced when certain politicians say they are coming to take our jobs. We know that that’s not how the economy works. The economy grows when people participate in it. But you also see it when low wage employers tell us you can’t raise wages because prices will go up and we’ll all be poorer. People who don’t want you to have universal healthcare will say the wait times, the lines with this ridiculous notion that somehow if we all have healthcare, none of us will have healthcare. This is how it shows up. And economists call it the fixed pie fallacy. I don’t call it the economists call it that. Because it’s not true. It’s a pie. The pie is not one size. The pie grows and contracts depending on how we’re baking it, if you will. But again, the wealth and power hoarders, if they can have us look at that pie and how we slice it, then we’re not looking at them. So the challenge, though, for me is that I’m finding that this fallacy is also underlying some of our work, some of our change making work. And when we reinforce it, we end up reinforcing some really problematic things. For example, this is a billboard that I passed in California many times. To be perfectly honest, if I stop and think about it, I don’t really know what this billboard is trying to say. I think it’s trying to make the case for education. But is it making the case for education because education is cheaper? If somehow if we lowered the cost of mass incarceration, would that make it a good idea? It doesn’t seem like it, right? This is a meme that I admit I shared this. A few years ago when the Trump administration said that they were going to eliminate health care for trans people in the military, gender-affirming care, and they said it was so expensive. And so the Rand Corporation put out this comparative fact that transition-related care is $8.4 million or less, and the military spends $84 million on erectile dysfunction drugs. And I was outraged. That’s ridiculous. And then I took a step back and realized, wait, I am firmly, pun intended, pun not intended. I’m firmly of the belief that sexual health is tough. And if people need erectile dysfunction drugs, I want them to have them. My values are that everyone gets the health care they need. And this comparison minimizes somebody’s care in the service of someone else’s care. That’s not my values. That’s not how I feel. The military of all institutions can afford all the health care. We don’t need to choose. But yet these are the messages that we send when we are, because we have also internalized the fixed-by fallacy. Why is this a problem beyond this? Because it shows up in ways that we don’t even realize. Do you remember the marriage equality struggle when people said things like, but what about my marriage? Do you remember that? And I thought, you heard that, right? What about your marriage? Like, what the hell does this have to do with? But it’s finally dawned on me. We think love and respect are a fixed pie, you guys. There’s only so much marriage sanctity to go around. And if we add more people to that institution, somehow your slice of it gets smaller. And then it really made sense around all lives matter. Now we have to be clear that the response to black lives matter is also rooted in anti-blackness. Cannot forget that. But all lives matter is a fixed pie argument. If black lives matter enough as much as they should, what does that say for other lives? So how do we fight this? We have to fight it by remembering and affirming that our most precious resources are truly infinite. Safety, love, respect, justice. These aren’t all, these aren’t only infinite, right? To get better, stronger, the more of us have them, right? If you’re safer, I’m safer. If you are treated with love and respect, chances are I will be too. So this is what we have to reinforce all the time. This is the truth. These are abundant, infinite resources that grow when they grow. So how we do this is we message for abundance. We remind people life is not a pie, it is a potluck, right? Yes, you’ve been to a potluck with too much wine, not enough dessert, right? But we work it out. Everybody brings something, everybody contributes what they can, and we work it out. We have to tell the truth that we are the richest country that has ever existed in the history of the planet, and whatever we want to do, we can do. It is not a matter of whether we have the resources, it’s about how we choose to implement and use them. And all of our messaging and all of our campaigns have to reinforce that. And when they do, we’re all of a sudden in a positive frame. We’re in a yes and campaign space where we can all, and our messages are aligning without more meetings, which we all know we’re trying to avoid. Here’s a few campaigns I’d love to share with you. We’re going to talk about these in the recess, but these were all campaigns that have successfully entered a fixed pie universe with an abundant frame and one. And we can talk about these more later, but it happens. It’s real, you can do it. Ultimately, I want you to ask you to make what we call the potluck promise. Can you promise, can you commit to rejecting scarcity and embracing abundance in your work? Will you please not off, thank you. Will you please stop offering our liberation at a discount? Don’t cost compare. Don’t, you know, do the cost benefit analysis. This rank deservedness, right? Step away from any conversation that asks you to rank our needs and desires or who deserves things. And I promise you that if you make this promise, your campaigns will become more interesting, more effective, more liberating, and more aligned. So what do you think? You can come to the potluck? Fantastic. Thank you so much. Thank you.