Life in the Ludic Century - Outland

The CEO did not acknowledge that the reason millennials might be interested in experiences—like the experience of renting things they could never own—was related to student loan debt, or the recession, or the plummeting market value of cultural products in an age of digital distribution. There were no crises in this vision of the future. There were

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Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where people were interchangeable parts. All of the story had been bled out of their lives. That was how it had to be; it was how you got a productive economy. But it would be easy to see a will at work behind this: not exa

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Of course, not everyone has the financial foundation to become a “time millionaire” or to start earning their living in the metaverse. Digital economies are nascent and not yet robust enough to support billions of digital workers. These same trends are powering the creator economy, remote work, freelancing; they are broader than Axie and its counte... See more