"Moloch is the god of negative sum games—unhealthy competitive situations. It incentivizes players within a game to sacrifice more and more of their values in order to win. By doing this sacrifice of all these values, players are essentially taking selfish actions that externalize harms to everybody else both within that game and even to the wider system as a whole—hence making the game a negative sum thing."
https://peterclarke.substack.com/p/is-moloch-the-right-metaphor-for