The Scarcity Ratchet

A game always has rules, but sometimes it becomes interesting when we consider what happens if the rules are changed. James cars wrote a fascinating book called finite and infinite games. The very fact that there's a game makes the thing that's scarce even more scarce. When you're playing a game to win, instead of playing a game because you enjoy it, scarcity gets amplified. We end up keeping score of something that maybe we don't even care about.