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Cooperation and defection in ghetto
We consider ghetto as a community of people ruled against their will by an
external power. Members of the community feel that their laws are broken.
However, attempts to leave ghetto makes their situation worse. We discuss the
relation of the ghetto inhabitants to the ruling power in context of their
needs, organized according to the Maslow hierarchy. Decisions how to satisfy
successive needs are undertaken in cooperation with or defection the ruling
power. This issue allows to construct the tree of decisions and to adopt the
pruning technique from the game theory. Dynamics of decisions can be described
within the formalism of fundamental equations. The result is that the strategy
of defection is stabilized by the estimated payoff.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure