Jacob Olenick

not really. like 力 is more inner strength. 威力 would be like destructive force, 動力 is motion power, 権力 is political power, 能力 is ability, 勢力 is group influence, and so on. but パワーis just force that kinda smears across all of it. it's useful bc it's ambiguous exertion of force. same with ファースト, you could say 一番 but has a ranking connotation. 優先 is technically correct, but it's sorta a weak claim, like ladies first. falls flat. 本位 主義 could work but too strong with lots of dark war time use. so actually loan word works for this. lot's of people think japanese use english words to be cool, and ofc many such cases, but quite often it's reaching for a word that sidesteps the baggage native ones carry.

Everyone is presented with two buttons, and must choose one: If you press Red, nothing happens. If you press Blue, you die, unless more than half of people also pressed Blue, in which case nothing happens. What do you choose?

I think it is genuinely strange how desperately people are trying to find ways to get red to win. It's not complicated! Blue is a proxy for altruism (modulated by expected risk of death). Red is selfishness, low-trust. Society evolves to be more altruistic, so blue tends to win.

I suppose the main difference is that one of them is bad at it