The behavior attributed to Indians in the article is universal. Admission to few college seats is a zero sum game anywhere in the world.

In SF, see if companies share knowledge if they are after the securing a contract from the same B2B customer.

In UK, drivers give way as a courtesy many times even though one has the priority. In return the other driver thanks using hand gestures. However, there was a local football match on a weekend and parking was very hard to find. Parking spots are zero-sum game. People started violating many rules. People started driving against the arrows on the road in desperation to grab the spot. Parking in places which were not marked as parking spots. All the manners & niceties went out of the window. It has hunger-games for parking spots.

BTW, google (and other big companies) hiring top graduates and researchers to deprive others of the same talent is hoarding.

It becomes a zero sum game because it's competitive and one company gets to take the lead and win, because that's how it's all structured.

I think as a society we have never experimented with any other model. What if all software was open? Would be impossible to make a living from it? I think it would just make it hard to have mega-corporations with thousands of employees across the world with just software. This would mean that we would have a lot more smaller software companies filling in the shoes of the large ones who depend on owning not just software but user data. In this world, large companies could only exist by focusing on hardware, and I think this distinction makes sense. Software can be copied and pasted, hardware requires physical resources. The fact that a small number of software companies are so powerful is not going to be good in the age of AI.