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    This is a common strategy in competitive games. For example, in chess, it might greatly benefit you to hinder your opponent’s pieces rather than improving one of your own pieces.

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    It would save taxpayers money if the government would house the unhoused. In the long run, it would save the government money on healthcare and law enforcement. We would all be better off. But no, we can’t have that because of a belief that people shouldn’t have a safe place to sleep without earning it. I’m talking about in Canada but I’m sure it applies also in other countries.

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    when people decide to divide people up into ‘good’ people and ‘bad’ people.

    this naturally means they want to punish the bad people and boost up the good people.

  • When my mother wants to give me something, I think it’s like a gift thing, or maybe its just some snacks, then my older brother (5 years older than me, for context) gets jealous and then my mother promises to get him something at another time, its late and no time to go to a store right now. Dude was so pissed me at ME, keeps complaining and would rather both of us get nothing… like… bro… why?!?.. I didn’t make this choice, blame mom or something. Why do I get blamed for receiving something?

    I imagine bro was probably so pissed when he found out my mother was having another child, I could practically imagine him being 4 years old and trying to kill me before I was born lolz.

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      In the reality show based on Squid Game, they were playing marbles. The rule was each pair had to decide what game to play and agree on the rules. If they couldn’t choose a winner within the time limit, they both got eliminated. This one woman didn’t want to play a throwing game because she had a disability. The asshole she was playing with refused to agree to any game other than a throwing game. So she gave in and agreed to a game where they threw at a target and whoever got the most in, won. It ended up being a tie. She argued that they should declare her the winner since she was the first to get one in. Asshole refused to agree to declare her the winner. So they were both eliminated. Dude, you’re getting eliminated either way, would it kill you to let her continue in the game?

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    Inspired by the EU’s new import tarrifs on chinese products. Instead of making better domestic products that people want, they just try to make foreign products less affordable.

    What are other examples?

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      That’s Liberals doing their liberal BS. Why improve anything directly when you can let the magic of the Free Market™ apply pressure to “increase competitive motivation”? Now European companies can compete because everything is more expensive! See, it makes perfect sense.