Comment by hypervisorxxx
4 years ago
This play to earn title is a particularly annoying dig at the recently blown up phrase where users can play to earn Blockchain tokens in nft based games which has actually enabled young men in the Philippines to quit their jobs as taxi drivers and involved them in an ecosystem which otherwise has exacerbated inequalities and trampled on the rights of humans in their country as historically corrupt government has minimsed the earning potential of the working class not and left the upper class eternally skeptical of their own government.
To make a dig like this and then not even acknowledge it in the content is exactly what I would expect from a white American who has no concept of how certain trends impact anyone other than themselves.
The article's point was to say that these grind games are not actually adding economic value, because it required existing wealth to come into the system to pay out the grind (and the company sucks out some transaction fees).
The game itself may possibly be fun for those that pay (instead of grind), but that's hard to judge.