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Poker players only win what another player loses

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Unlike a baking a pie where everyone can theoretically get a bigger slice, zero-sum games guarantee mutual destruction. If you walk away from the table ten bucks richer, someone else is specifically weeping over the loss of their ten bucks. It is pure, unfiltered resource transfer without a single drop of new wealth creation.

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