It’s not Amazon’s goal to make an educational tool on the problems of capitalism.

You’re sidestepping the concept/issue.

It would be interesting to see an MMO where income was distributed according to which players claimed ownership of the most land or the largest number of resource nodes (and those with a favorable position could use that position to extort an even greater ratio of resource nodes), with the majority of players given…

Yes, we have moved past that. Because the actual implication is that it’s a very inefficient and troublesome system.

Boy it sure sounds like a stretch to characterize the takeaway of this article as “pro-cpitalism” when there’s such descriptors used as “the economy is busted” and “This phenomenon presents a potential disaster”.

So let me get this straight...

Shutting down is also an emotional reaction.

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Is it because he claimed to be team TERF? How is that harmful to you or anyone else?

...these games started as a simulation of real-world societies throughout history...

Spoken like someone unfamiliar with the “playing tall” strategy or scientific/economic/diplomatic win conditions.

“What is a 4X game?”

What do you think we’re arguing about? Whether institutions are needed at all or whether the need for institutions is reduced? Because I’m arguing the latter. If you think it’s the former, you’re the one who’s lost context.

So I’m going to assume you’ve simply lost context due to the different conversations going on, rather than deliberately misunderstanding. Please don’t disappoint me here.

The same problem exists for non-NFT art. If two people claim to have created a single work of art, who has the correct claim?

“An NFT of a piece of art” IS a “certificate of authenticity that happens to be an NFT.” This is a fundamental misunderstanding that this whole “NFT art” thing caused. The NFT is not the art; the NFT is the certificate of authenticity for the art. That’s all it ever has been and all it ever will be (unless the…

Let me rephrase: it reduces the number of institutions that need to back your claim.

You get something that only has value because of the certification process (symbolized in a receipt).

What’s to stop you from buying an original painting that’s certified authentic by an NFT?