Mastodawn

Imagine if no one treated life as a zero-sum game and only agreed to play in co-op mode?

In any other game, if you found out it was rigged after playing your hardest for years, and folx were like "that's just how it is, and the price of losing can include dying in a gutter from sheer indifference", you'd probably flip the fucking table.

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Kotes

@alice Your post is quite thought-provoking, but real-world capitalism is a mix of zero-sum and cooperative game elements, making it difficult to easily separate the two.

Perhaps it's precisely because no one believes it's a purely cooperative game that so many people are willing to abandon those who have "lost."