Which people tend to be more zero-sum? In general respondents who are in urban areas, younger, with lower income or lower educational achievements. Zero-sum thinking also varies by state: respondents in Utah are the least zero-sum; those in NY are among the most zero-sum. 7/23 https://t.co/uoJ8wR7N4f
Politics, academia, and social status are all zero-sum games. Positive-sum games create positive people. [11]
In economics and in game theory, there are two classes of engagements: zero sum and positive sum. The former describes a contest in which there are a fixed number of resources and a fixed number of players. For one player to gain resources, or win, the other player(s) must give up resources, or lose. The combined total change of all players during
... See moreMoney seems to be locally zero-sum (after a trade happens, Person A has –$1, Person B has +$1), but actually money is globally positive-sum. In a voluntary exchange, A and B both gain in wealth because they both get non-monetary benefit from making the trade.
Many people approach business as a zero-sum game: There are winners and losers. This is stupid and counterproductive in the context of a startup community. Startup communities are often a tiny fraction of what they could ultimately become. As a result, there is a huge amount of untapped opportunity. Approaching it as a non-zero-sum game is much mor
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