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Most battles are won without a fight

Let's face it, everyone want more: more wealth, more influence, more skills. Everyone wants their words to have impact, their alignment to have consequence.

If everyone believed they were as wealthy, influential or as skilled as the other person we would see a lot more confrontations. The reason that doesn't happen is because those battles are won without a fight, implicitly due the image projected by the person on top. Example: When you recognize someone's expertise in a field, you wouldn't try to one up them in that specific domain. You may even drop your preparation to do it just after noticing the new project the other person is doing in that domain.

What does it mean to lose such battles? The loser has to rewrite their alignment. They drop the confrontational posturing and instead wear the face of loyalty and try to get ahead by associating themselves with the other person. This may be a conscious choice or unconscious.

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Alignment vs Leverage

In social terms, power is how you get what you want from others and how others can get what they want from you. Unless you've tried to get something from someone, or resist others trying to take something from you, you lack the direct confrontation necessary to really understand power.

When you want to be favored over someone else you you are forced to assess your own leverage. .Leverage could be anything: from gender, to age, to how wealthy you are, to your history of loyalty etc.

But despite the variety of forms power can take, in concrete form it translates into money 💰. This is a form no person living in civilized society can ignore.

If you live long enough you will confront it too. And when it does, alignments can only compensate at best.