>No it's not. You and your opponent can simply move your queens back and forth forever.
We might disagree on this point, but to me, that's the same game regardless of how many times you move the pieces around, because that game ended in a draw. Moving queens around indefinitely to no purpose is no longer chess, there are no more possibilities to be found at that point, it's pure entropy.
>It's a pragmatic question, and includes an implication of "for all practical purposes". Taking it literally is just being argumentative.
I honestly don't think it's true for all practical purposes, either. I'm not trying to be argumentative, I legitimately disagree with the premise. When you're talking about capitalism, you need a market which will return a profit on something people are willing to pay for, and there are only so many things people will be willing to pay for, and only so much they will pay, because people's time and budgets are limited.
> Moving queens around indefinitely to no purpose is no longer chess
Nothing in the official rules says the game has to have a purpose to the moves. Nor do the rules say each board configuration must be unique to the particular game.
> I legitimately disagree with the premise.
That's fine, and your argument should support that, not some digression into mathematical infinities.
> When you're talking about capitalism, you need a market which will return a profit on something people are willing to pay for, and there are only so many things people will be willing to pay for, and only so much they will pay, because people's time and budgets are limited.
Capitalism is about taking something and adding value to it. The definition of adding value is adding something that people are willing to freely pay for. Budgets are not limited, because those people are also adding value to things, and trading the value they created for what they want.
I.e. there is no fixed supply of money. It is not zero sum.
We might disagree on this point, but to me, that's the same game regardless of how many times you move the pieces around, because that game ended in a draw. Moving queens around indefinitely to no purpose is no longer chess, there are no more possibilities to be found at that point, it's pure entropy.
>It's a pragmatic question, and includes an implication of "for all practical purposes". Taking it literally is just being argumentative.
I honestly don't think it's true for all practical purposes, either. I'm not trying to be argumentative, I legitimately disagree with the premise. When you're talking about capitalism, you need a market which will return a profit on something people are willing to pay for, and there are only so many things people will be willing to pay for, and only so much they will pay, because people's time and budgets are limited.