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    It is not the case that Greedies are not viable without Modests in the population.

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    • 1.Greedies can sustain themselves through repeated exploitation of new entrants or naive agents who have not yet learned to defect.
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    • 2.Evolutionary game theory (Maynard Smith) shows populations can cycle through strategies without any single type requiring another for viability.
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    • 1.In sufficiently large or heterogeneous populations, Greedies can persist by exploiting coordination failures among non-Greedy agents, not Modests specifically.
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    • 2.Skyrms' 'Evolution of the Social Contract' demonstrates that local interaction structures can sustain greedy strategies independently of Modest presence.
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    • Greedies depend on having Modests around in order to be viable.
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