Another cue I want to offer you is `The Donation Game` which is a variation of the Prisoner's Dilemma[1] -- Treating a business dealing as a game perhaps it co

Another cue I want to offer you is `The Donation Game` which is a variation of the Prisoner's Dilemma[1] -- Treating a business dealing as a game perhaps it could be viewed as a variation of the Prisoner's dilemma or Donation game -- i.e. the decision to cooperate or not based on the incentives to do so or not So depending on whether you're playing the Prisoner's Dilemma or the Donation game, a tie could be an important signal your intention and can be used to affect the outcome -- Perhaps in "Prisoner" economics the tie indicates the intention to act in one's own greedy self interest but in "Donation" economics it may connote the understanding that one's self interest is also the common self interest? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#Special_case:_Donation_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#Special_c...