I’m not totally sure what you mean by “wins” and “loses” here—you seem to mean increasing or decreasing some sort of relative attractiveness (to the average potential mate? To your definition of beauty, which seems universal?), which would then be zero-sum for whatever group it’s normalized over.
But just because something is called winning, doesn’t mean you can rely on it to describe human behavior—humans have a much more complicated set of motivations than “maximize relative attractiveness.”
I’m not totally sure what you mean by “wins” and “loses” here—you seem to mean increasing or decreasing some sort of relative attractiveness (to the average potential mate? To your definition of beauty, which seems universal?), which would then be zero-sum for whatever group it’s normalized over.
But just because something is called winning, doesn’t mean you can rely on it to describe human behavior—humans have a much more complicated set of motivations than “maximize relative attractiveness.”