Is there an equivalent to “the purpose of a system is what it does” for (meta)games/politics/coordination? 

I get that these are encapsulated by the idom, but looking for something that highlights the human side over the procedural/mechanistic one.

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“Show me the incentives and I’ll show you the outcomes” feels like the closest?

Oooh I've been thinking I'd learn how to build a board game as the really scaled up version of that is companies/religions/nations (incentive design problems of very large scale)

Shouw me the governance and I will show you the possible outcomes. Governance is the protocol of decision making.