A game where the payoff is social rank and visible prestige rather than sex, love, or reproduction.
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status game
A game where the payoff is social rank and visible prestige rather than sex, love, or reproduction.
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Revolutions succeed not because they are communist but because they destroy old elites, reset the status game, and release new energy.
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"We know what the players are. The players are doing stupid things. The rules, we know, okay? But incentives is something that we have..."
"All right? Clear? Great. All right. So let's look at three examples. All right? You look at Soviet Union. You look at China. You..."
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Game theory begins with a small dating game and ends with a civilizational forecast: when status becomes the prize, love, fertility, policy, and geopolitics all bend around the same zero-sum structure.
Marx is powerful because he sees what capitalism does to the soul.
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