Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-i Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:ags From: ags@pucc-i (Seaman) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Zero Sum Gain??? Message-ID: <232@pucc-i> Date: Fri, 9-Mar-84 14:14:15 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-i.232 Posted: Fri Mar 9 14:14:15 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 11-Mar-84 01:04:43 EST References: <541@ihuxb.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 17 > The idea of a "zero sum gain" is very popular among those who feel > that capitalists (whoever that is) exploit the workers, the people, > etc. That's "zero sum GAME," not gain. The term comes from the mathematical theory of games. A game is called "zero sum" if the sum of the payoffs to the participants is zero. An example of a zero-sum game is poker. When John Kennedy said, "A rising tide lifts all boats," he was taking the position that the economy is not a zero-sum game. -- Dave Seaman ..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags "Against people who give vent to their loquacity by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."