The American Dream is Going Digital: The Land of Opportunity is the Internet This tweet went viral. As one might expect, the responses ranged from despair over a lost generation of youth, to proclamations that China would inevitably overtake the West as the leading superpower. Some ascribed ...
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Over the course of a half-century, the value of physical content to value of mental content of most products and services steadily approached a median point, crossed, and has now reversed. We have no idea what this means for societal organization or environmental relationship in future, though it is certain to be huge.
A prime example is Fortnite, whose massive 350M+ player base represents nearly the same in-game population as the United States… 85% of whom purchase in-game upgrades, skins, and other downloadable content to the tune of $3.7 Billion /yr in sales.
The rules include: user name and identity verification through facial recognition + manual verification, a cap on how much a viewer can tip, a ban on minors from tipping, and a mandate for platforms to have 1 human moderator per 50 livestreams.