Why Negative-Sum Games Don’t Matter (Most Of The Time)

Positive-Sum Games and Zero-Sum Games are important. Positive-Sum Games are win-win games. Zero-Sum Games are win-lose games. When you put them together in a sequence, you can understand others’ strategies. They also help you build your own (See A Spy’s Guide To Strategy for how those sequences work).Negative-Sum Games don’t matter as much for strategies. Most of the time. They don’t matter because people usually avoid lose-lose games. You see it when you drive. Drivers are avoiding other veh...