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From a zero-sum perspective, wouldn't it be an effective tactic to convince your competitors to avoid zero-sum thought? It's also worth remembering that in dem
by doinkmun 2y ago
From a zero-sum perspective, wouldn't it be an effective tactic to convince your competitors to avoid zero-sum thought?
It's also worth remembering that in democracy, the demographics of voting blocs necessarily creates a zero-sum distribution of power.
- AnimalMuppet 2y agoDepends. Do you actually live in a zero-sum world, or not? If you live in a zero-sum world, that's an interesting tactic. It might be effective. If you don't, though, then you opened your opponent up to a better way of doing things, while you're still stuck in a less optimal way. That's a losing move.
- doinkmun 2y agoGood point. Is there in fact a limited supply of energy and physical materials? If so, the universe is finite and thus zero-sum as bounded by the efficiency of use. Do humans asses things more through impartial objectivity or via relativistic comparison? If yes to finite resources and relative assesment, we live in a zero-sum world. If no to either, we do not (ie, if we have functionally unlimited resource abundance, or if we don't care about how we are situated relative to our neighbors).