As Robert Wright argues in the amazing book, Nonzero, every so often, there are dramatic technological advances that create the potential for larger and more complicated nonzero-sum games on a societal level.

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Nevertheless, given changes in American society over the past 100 years, it appears as if the left would have more to lose on a socio-political level in the wake of a complete financial meltdown that gives rise to societal breakdown.

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