At 10:59 AM 3/9/99 -0800, KMO wrote:
>MemeLab@aol.com wrote:
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>> Why is it that people habitually think of "games" as zero-sum?
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>Because our language encourages us to polarize all of our concepts?
There is a simpler answer: the vast majority of games that are recognized as games are zero-sum. The one exception that comes to mind, role-playing games, I played for a decade without knowing that it is a non-zero-sum game (at least not by that name).
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