Sentence examples for zero-sum situation from inspiring English sources
Slow demographic growth in developed economies creates a zero-sum situation (which is part of why the licensed cabs vs Uber/Lyft contest is so heated).
"They are approaching a zero-sum situation, and yet they ask us to attack Hamas," Mr. Diskin was quoted as saying.
Is it a zero-sum situation or can "good enough" be "good for me"?
If you repeat this binary-like decision process throughout the industry and economy, you get a zero-sum situation where one competitor's gains come at the expense of others' in the industry: Apple's iPhone sales obviously put a dent in the Blackberry; and its iPads are evidently going to affect PC sales – no matter how much some want to deny it.
His belligerent approach to negotiating is an example of what experts call distributive bargaining — making outrageous demands and hoping the other side gives ground in a zero-sum situation, says Fen Osler Hampson, a distinguished fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Canada.
Namely, though poststructuralism requires that interactions between people and ideas be seen as zero-sum -- for instance, if one person talks over another, the second person has been "silenced" or rendered "invisible" and not just demonstrably disadvantaged -- a palimpsest does not, in itself, qualify as a zero-sum situation.
Which is odd, given that someone who claims to be a master deal maker would understand how important it is to avoid zero-sum situations.
Still, on balance, over the long run, non-zero-sum situations produce more positive sums than negative sums, more mutual benefit than parasitism.
This basic sequence — the conversion of non-zero-sum situations into mostly positive sums — had started happening at least as early as 15,000 years ago.
These are perfect two-sided "zero sum" situations -- where one player's loss is another's gain -- something game theorists love.
In recent years, managers have adopted from game theory the notion that decision-making events can be one of two types: the win-lose situation (or zero-sum game) or the win-win situation in which everybody in the action comes out ahead.
