Re: whether economics is zero-sum Re: Properties of VonNeumann games of minimax theorem; proving chessis a draw OS

From: Johnny 5 (johnny5_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/17/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 05:34:48 GMT

Archimedes Plutonium <a_plutonium@iw.net> wrote in news:40F81E57.208747B0
@iw.net:

> square Go is passed (sorry for the pun) if I remember you collect 200
> dollars. So this infusion of new playing material that shatters the
> valley sitting atop the mountain because the gain by one player does
not
> correspond to an equal loss for the other player/s and thus
> NonVonNeumann.

go to www.games.com and play monopoly worldwide, it is free, I play it a
lot, I have had games go on for days because of this, more money kept
getting infused and even though the other player had more real estate, by
the luck of the dice I was able to keep missing his properties even
though I had none and the few times I did hit I had enough money to pay.

So take this to the real world, as long as the fed keeps printing dollars
the land lords dont necessarily kill off the poor right?

However in the tens of thousands of times I have played monopoly, this
rare example has only shown up a few times, most times the game is over
in less than 30 minutes, and will never last days. THe landlords WIN, I
tried to be a landlord in real life however and lost, monopoly does not
accurately reflect human greed and corruption in your tenants and service
people taking care of the land.

> ZeroSum is Conservation in physics. Such that in conservation of charge
> there is no newly created charge. Whereever negative or positive charge
> occur, overall it is Zero in that no new negative charge comes into
> existence by itself without positive charge. But in GO or Monopoly
> violate zerosum.

Perhaps one day we will have a unified field theory. 

-- 
Government policy in interest rates, and on finance generally, has been 
marked by vacillation, wishful thinking, electoral expediency of the most 
shameful type towards the end of last year, contortions and 
contradictions, all to accommodate the redneck economics of the National 
Country Party. (Harsard Aug.27 1981)

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