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"Checks and balances" are really checks in balance, constraints that prevent spinning out in all directions.

Checks in balance are how any fragile system is sustained: a healthy body, marriage, society, or government.

Games start out in balance. They continue if dominance shifts and end when checks are out of balance.

If you want to keep a game going, you've got to keep the checks in balance, which isn't easy.

We call them checks and balances, but they’re not two separate things. Checks and balances are really checks in balance. Checks are constraints that prevent runaway effects like the rich getting richer, the crazy getting crazier, the wild getting wilder.........

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