The Classic "Game of Life" is around groups of using people's own life against themselves (no way out games or self-sabotage games by design as people dig deeper).

People really don't believe a game can have no winners or any healthy end.
They keep digging from lack of imagination and lack of choice / design.

Using one's existence to change the design and even die to change it, is a harsh reality but people are seeing how badly the designed tree of life takes away as time goes on, despite giving you seemingly noble or ok things to do in life.

Bad design, heavy manipulation towards price mechanisms that simply step up prices when they see its too easy for people or cheap to live.

Designers believe in maximising to breaking point and even using crisis to use as excuse (like invading or blaming others for their own negative externalities).