I definitely am wiser and kinder than I was in the past
This is a suspicious conjunction, because you can’t serve two masters. If the path of wisdom turned out to involve being less kind in some ways, would you notice?
There’s a general issue here, which is that most situations are positive-sum instead of zero-sum. Asking which tradeoff to have on the production possibilities frontier is sometimes interesting, but most of the time the challenge is simply getting to the frontier (or pushing it further along).
This is a suspicious conjunction, because you can’t serve two masters. If the path of wisdom turned out to involve being less kind in some ways, would you notice?
Yes.
There’s a general issue here, which is that most situations are positive-sum instead of zero-sum. Asking which tradeoff to have on the production possibilities frontier is sometimes interesting, but most of the time the challenge is simply getting to the frontier (or pushing it further along).