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                  1. The many problems of the play-to-earn games could each be talked about for hours but it's most telling feature is that it shows how the inventors *think*. They think there is no thing that can be valued except for money. It's incredibly depressing to think about.
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                  How can they create something that values art or compensates artists when it is very clear that they do not consider the art to have any intrinsic value? For that matter they don't seem to think *anything* has intrinsic value, just what a market demands.
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                That's why so much of the art is bad. The people running these systems don't understand or care to understand art. That's why so much of the art is stolen, b/c they are looking for a totem of value, not art. There's no art in their world, only tokens, and NFTs just realize that.
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              There are smart good people in & around the space but they're fooling themselves if they think they can make something of it as it is shaped now. The only thing NFTs can make is money. Barely even that most of the time, because all fictional capital eventually collapses.
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            Crypto currency can't enable art, only markets. Markets don't enable good art. Half of artists work 2 jobs, the other half are constantly battling for royalties & ownership & mostly losing. NFTs don't fix that because the problem isn't the market mechanism, it's the market itself
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          The other half of "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" is "there is no uncompromised creation under capitalism". The end point of NFTs will always be G*ry V** sh*tting out 10 minutes of bad art and selling it for hundreds of thousands on his cult of personality.
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        I'm fascinated by the reaction to Elden Ring b/c it is in such clear opposition to "play-to-earn". People are putting hundreds of hours into this game because it is *satisfying* because they enjoy it as a piece of *art*. It rebuffs the very idea that the only value is monetary.
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      People don't play games to get paid. In fact, *very few* of the reasons *most* people are motivated to do anything have anything to do with getting paid. It's hard to see it through the crypto flak, but money is a mechanism to enable the human experience, it's not whole of it.
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    It's particularly ironic that the main form of Crypto Currency community seems to be Twitter: a platform where tons of people spend tons of time doing stuff they attach value to without any interest or expectation of getting paid for it.
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