Good point. Another great non-zero-sum game: HACKEYSAC!
-KMO
David McFadzean wrote:
>
> At 10:59 AM 3/9/99 -0800, KMO wrote:
> >MemeLab@aol.com wrote:
> >
> >> Why is it that people habitually think of "games" as zero-sum?
> >
> >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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