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Status or power is treated as scarce rank: one person's gain means another's loss.
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zero-sum status
Status or power is treated as scarce rank: one person's gain means another's loss.
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"...what? It doesn't work. Because people don't want money. They want status. And status is a zero -sum game. Okay? Money is infinite but..."
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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.
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