What do you call a situation in which any resource you gain is a loss of resource to comeone else

Need ! how is richard characterized by alger in this excerpt from the passage? "to complete his costume he wore a coat too long for him, dating back, if one might judge from its general appearance, to a remote antiquity." he is exciting. he is intelligent. he is comical. he is happy.

Why does patton seem undaunted about eating his rodent soup

How does shakespeare transform the myth of phoebus and daphne to dramatize this theme?