Casinos do not run as a zero sum game.
zero sum game applies to closed systems.
Survival is not a closed system.
Ooh, i think i finally understand what causes all that confusion you seem have with understanding RCE concept.
I can try to explain, althou i will be annihilated in the end. But it doesn't matter, let's take it easy like a good mind game.
Unlike real life economic systems, virtual economies don't produce any real added value inside the system.
Instead, just like any closed system, they are consuming resources to keep the system running.
Taking the above into account, we can view it as a closed system and apply the laws of thermodynamics:
- In any closed system, you cannot create new energy (first law of thermodynamics)
- You always lose a little energy (second law of thermodynamics)
- Therefore a machine cannot make more energy than it uses or even enough to keep itself operating.
(Notice, in the closed virtual model of the
Universe, the
Entropy is always slowly increasing...
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Next step. We will now simplify our model and
remove the maintenance fees from the equation.
If we now look at it we will discover it has turned into a classical zero sum game - as much as goes in, comes out.
From our standpoint it is unimportant what exactly goes on
inside the system. The resources might change hands inside there, or they might not. From our standpoint (looking at the system from the outside) any transactions inside there are absolutely irrelevant
because the total input is still exactly equal to the total output.Notice, RCE operates like Outer Shell. For RCE it's irrelevant what principle is used by the Inner System to redistribute resources between players. Maybe it's based on luck ("Casino"), or time and effort ("Slave labor") or maybe there is no redistribution at all. The only publicly known RCE is largely based on luck, therefore ppl think RCE = Casino, but this is only a coincidence, two separate facts that have no casual connection.
Now, coming back to the topic - Survival is indeed not a closed system. Total input is 100%, total output is 0%. Those values are not equal and there's no need to worry about balance inside the system. This setup gives us a lot of freedom - we can create new resources out of the thin air and inject them into system. Unless we oversupply the system
by a magnitude, nothing happens. I mean, there's no need to carefully count every penny 'cause the next moment ppl might want to convert all these resources into real money and withdraw it from the system.
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