Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in really complex ways, that introduces a degree of almost chaos theory to the system, in a literal sense.
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By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.
I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.
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