Jim Greer is the latest tech entrepreneur to put his money into a plan to fix politics. The advantage he has over other reformers: He's a game designer. Politics, Greer says, "is to some degree a game - the most important game there is." The co-founder of the social gaming site Kongregate believes that mind-set will help him find a way to stop money from gaming politics. "When you're designing online games, in many cases you have platforms where multiple competing parties are trying to gain an advantage," Greer said. "So you have to design some kind of algorithm so that a lot of people's competitive behavior can lead to something that ends up being usable and good for everyone.
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