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                      Two suspects, two choices, and both end up worse off by acting rationally. The Prisoner's Dilemma, formalized at RAND in 1950, explains why price wars erupt and why rational competitors compete themselves into collapsing margins.
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                      Robert Axelrod's 1980s tournaments found a simple strategy beat every aggressive one: Tit for Tat, which cooperates first, then mirrors whatever the other side just did.
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                      Two offers, same dollar amount, different timelines. The one you can invest today is worth more than the one you wait two years for. That gap, the time value of money, sits under every pricing and capital decision you make.
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