There is an interesting phenomenon: many people revere von Neumann's "Zero-sum Game" theory as an investment guideline, yet they are unaware that they are thus limited by their thinking framework.

Look at the investors around you—their worldview often boils down to two words: fixed. A fixed total wealth, a fixed market pie, a fixed win-lose relationship. If you earn, he has to lose. The market is like a game of chess, black or white, win or lose. This kind of thinking is like blindfolding the eyes, unable to see incremental value, unable to see the true logic of wealth creation.

This is the fundamental reason for repeated harvesting – not because the opponent is too smart, but because one's own thinking system is stuck in the "dividing the cake" stage. When a person assumes that the size of the pie is always fixed, their actions can only be: calculating, gaming, and taking money from others' pockets. This is a complete replica of poor people's thinking.

What are the real winners doing? They are doing something entirely different – creating new value, expanding new markets, and making the pie itself bigger. The emergence of innovative assets like $BTC and $ETH essentially breaks the assumption of "fixed supply" and creates a whole new incremental space. Those who are still fighting over the existing supply will only ever be able to consume the leftovers that others spit out.

Language indeed shapes thinking. Once you accept the framework of "Zero-sum Game", you can no longer see the other half of the market's truth. You focus on every move on the board, calculating how to gain a point from your opponent, but the real game has long shifted beyond the board—there are no fixed rules there, only infinite creative space.

Ask yourself: Are you studying how to live better in a saturated market, or are you thinking about how to create incremental value? The two paths will lead to completely different places in the end.