Your success shouldn’t need someone else to fail. There’s more room at the top than the comments section suggests.

Most things are not a single prize with one winner, though the way people argue online makes it feel that way. Two bakeries on the same street can both be busy and two musicians can both work. Treating every peer as a rival for a fixed quantity makes you worse company and worse at the job, since collaboration is where most opportunities come from. Scarcity is often assumed rather than real.

Do one generous thing for somebody doing the same work as you. Share a contact, recommend them, answer a question properly. It costs you nothing you actually needed.