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One-upmanship

B: By your logic, I've failed much more than you have. I've gained 10 kilos ever since I first entertained the idea of perfect weight. In short, you're no competition.

A: I really want to give away my extra kilo, you see.

B: Every fat kilo I own, I want to give away for free.

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Exaggerations aside, you get the picture. Right now in our culture – and not just in China but everywhere else – there's an overdose of one-upmanship, to say the least. People care so much about winning that they want to do it by all means and at all costs, often failing to realize that winning is losing because everything we gain we give away and give up.

Eventually of course. We even give up dough because the last time I checked, I still haven't found anyone who takes his money with him to squander in heaven, or to burn, with him no doubt, in hell. At the end of the day, everything we win, we give away.

The Great Gatesby of course gave all his money to charity. In so doing, the Microsoft man, who retired last week, also gave up the title of the richest man according to Forbes. And in so doing, Bill Gates, in my estimation at least, became one of the very richest men to ever roam the earth.