Chris Voss is widely considered the greatest FBI negotiator in the world. I learn SO much hanging out with him. @MichaelFranzese is considered one of the top 20 (No. 18) most influential mobsters and one of the greatest negotiators back in the mob days. Spending more time with him and observing the similarities and difference between his approach and the Voss approach of Tactical Empathy. @PeterVoogd23

The people that understand the rules and modify their behavior to get better outcomes, given the rules, will typically get more favorable outcomes. If you change the rules, the same people will end up getting more favorable outcomes because they will educate themselves on the new rules and modify their behavior accordingly. Changing the rules doesn't help unless the people subject to the rules understand them and know how to make decisions accordingly. The people that win the most consistently are, on average, more educated about the system and how it works AND willing to make the tradeoffs necessary. In other words... If someone really wanted to help, they'd put little time into attacking successful people and a lot of time into helping everyone else understand the system and how to benefit from it. And that's true no matter how you decide to change the system. The more the system is designed to "hurt" successful people, the more difficult it will become for everyone else to become successful, themselves.