The correct answer is option D) “Every purchase you make at a chain store is sale that a local small business misses out on.”
A zero-sum game in this example represents the following situation: if the amount of sales increases for a chain store, then the amount of sales will equally decrease in a small store.
Let’s take the example of a cake. The complete cake represents the total amount of sales in the market. If the chain store takes a big piece of “cake”, then the rest of it is divided into the rest of the small stores.
In the other options provided, the zero-sum game mathematical process does not apply.
Miep Gies is voluntarily putting her life at risk and endangering herself and her status by housing Anne Frank and her family inside her house; Anne Frank was the one hiding, differing their perspectives heavily.