Cyclical Econo-Mindsets

To begin with, let us answer the question: what exactly are Cyclical Econo-Mindsets?
The term simply refers to the way lived reality creates mindsets in individual people, and how the collective behaviour or reaction to those mindsets engenders or creates a reality of their own. These cycles can be described, at their basic level, in two forms:
[  ] Scarcity-Adversity
[  ] Kindness-Abundance

[  ] A scarcity mindset occurs most often to people living in a nation or other place where there is relative scarcity of goods, services, or the funds to procure either. This mindset leads people to behave in selfish or self-protective ways, as their minds shift to “survival mode”. But the selfish behaviour itself leads to even greater scarcity/adversity, as people jostle to maintain whatever scarce resources are available, storing, hiding or otherwise diverting them for themselves and those they value. This attitude, when made collective, is a state of adversity, where means are not only scarce, but also attitudes are turned inwards and the collective good is abandoned as impossible to maintain, which leads to even greater adversity as the cycle reinforces itself.

[  ] An abundance mindset, on the other hand, occurs when there is a perception that means are relatively less scarce, and fears of future poverty are low, and so goods, services and the funds to procure them are displayed, invested or exchanged in anticipation of reciprocity. There is also a greater willingness toward charity, as the mindset of abundance leads individuals to give even without an expectation of reciprocity, since means are perceived to be less scarce and fears of poverty are minimized. The collective spirit of goodwill works to boost abundance, which then reinforces more kindness, and vice-versa.

Core Principles
[  ] Everyone has something to offer or hide: this principle indicates that every member of a given society has something to potentially offer to others, or otherwise sequester or hide in anticipation of coming scarcity. This “something” may be goods, services or funds, or even simple affirmations of gratitude, all of which foster abundance mindsets. In the same vein, every member of society possesses something that they can withhold, in whose vacuum scarcity fears and mindsets can proliferate.

[  ] Temptation to “poison the well”: In every given society, there is within every individual the capacity to “poison the well”, or to transform mindsets from abundance to scarcity. This often occurs as a result of real or perceived antisocial vices like greed, sloth and envy, as a greedy or slothful person may poison the well by accepting goodwill and refusing to reciprocate, or a jealous person may actively take on and propagate a scarcity mindset, whether real or perceived, because another individual seems to benefit more from abundance.