The Complexity of Capitalism

I understand Game A as scarcity in that there are scarce resources that need to be extracted and utilized. And because of that scarcity, there is therefore greater degree of competition, zero sum competition. That has externalities, some of which are positive, depending on your time frame you're looking at. I think someone caught up in the collapse of the Bronze Age might have felt like whatever the reasons that they were having this terrible thing happening from their perspective. But actually, it was probably a positive something from our perspective. The point is there's this like scarcity that leads to these externalities that is inherent of Game B.