DONALD TRUMP IS NOT A BUSINESS MAN

                                                                           

Bill Gates and family - Business man
& philanthropist

I know that it has been a long time since I have published what could pass for a thought.  I think I finally have found one that I can describe well enough to have it make sense. I will try to keep it to my usual 500 word target size,

Bill Gates and Paul Allen left college early because they had ideas that they wanted to sell to the world before anyone else.  Their ideas were of the sort that would change the world.  The change would not be simply material but intellectual, moral and economical all at once.  What they had to offer to the world was something that heretofore had been unknown.  In order to manage the introduction of their ideas in the best possible way, they thought it best to leave school and start to share their discovery to the world.

Their first stop was IBM.  IBM worked with them as did NCR, XEROX and maybe others.  Together, they began to change the way the world lives.  These are businessmen.  These are humans who understand that the generation of wealth comes from the management of human collaboration for the mutual good of their enterprises as well as the world at large.  

Donald Trump, landowner

Donald Trump is a landowner.  He rents parts of his property to those who want to use it.  He doesn't create wealth for anyone, singular or enterprise.  He has nothing to offer to the world with the collaborative creation of wealth as the goal.  He is the owner and he rents his property to those who want it or need it.                                                         Donald Trump doesn't negotiate collaborative agreements.  Donald Trump makes deals that create wealth for him and leave the renter with the task of creating Donald's wealth.  In Donald Trump's universe there are but two classes of living humans:  winners and losers.  There is no grey area.  His success comes from what he takes from you and he sees to it that you get nothing but the bare minimum from him in return.  That's the world he lives in.  In that universe the only way to make a good deal with Donald Trump sitting across the table from you is to walk away while you still have your money in your pocket.

Given this situation, it is clearly impossible to expect that the parallel universes of Trump and the rest of humanity will ever intersect.  All the "FactChecks" in one universe will not bring about change in the other.  In fact, we have seen that our universe as represented by the federal court system doesn't intersect with the "zero-sum universe" of Donald Trump. The truths of Trump's universe do not overlap with the universal truths in the parallel universe of the rest of us.

Trust me on this one.  The only tool we have is in the voting booth.  Save all your receipts so that if there is a Trumpist Revolt you will be able to prove that you only voted once, in your universe, anyway.