Okay, so after reading this a couple of times and reading the comments, I kinda see what Phil was trying to do with this, but the questionable game theory of the first two paragraphs obscures the legitimate point in third paragraph. The questionable game theory is really unnecessary—frame it, if you like, not as assuming life is a zero-sum game but as about creating zero-sum games where they didn’t exist before.
Okay, so after reading this a couple of times and reading the comments, I kinda see what Phil was trying to do with this, but the questionable game theory of the first two paragraphs obscures the legitimate point in third paragraph. The questionable game theory is really unnecessary—frame it, if you like, not as assuming life is a zero-sum game but as about creating zero-sum games where they didn’t exist before.