The invention of "prize"
Imagine a time long ago,
When there was no such thing as a competition.
With no prizes to be won, man played the game for the game.
Playing the game for the game, all of his talents were available to him.
Then man became clever.
He decided to create something known as a “prize.”
It would be rewarded to the “winner” of the game.
This one-act set humanity spinning on a different course.
The game was never the same.
And the human was not either.
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