I don't think human behaviour and relationships are reducible to economics like that.
It seems like you're pretty much starting from the axiom that economic calculus has to be at the bottom of everything, and any behaviour that isn't explicitly game theory has to be an abstraction/higher level implementation of it.
That's just not how people work.
Evolution didn't happen bottom up from an economics textbook. Behaviour that results in "winning" outcomes gets propagated. You can examine those from the perspective of economic theory, but economic theory isn't the origin.
There doesn't need to be a hidden "econ 101" subroutine that obfuscates itself.
The much simpler explanation is that unconditional relationships have been adaptive and beneficial, if... (read more)
I don't think human behaviour and relationships are reducible to economics like that.
It seems like you're pretty much starting from the axiom that economic calculus has to be at the bottom of everything, and any behaviour that isn't explicitly game theory has to be an abstraction/higher level implementation of it.
That's just not how people work.
Evolution didn't happen bottom up from an economics textbook. Behaviour that results in "winning" outcomes gets propagated. You can examine those from the perspective of economic theory, but economic theory isn't the origin.
There doesn't need to be a hidden "econ 101" subroutine that obfuscates itself.
The much simpler explanation is that unconditional relationships have been adaptive and beneficial, if... (read more)