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> You could pay to own some more blocks. Let's bring wealth-gaps to the metaverse, what could go wrong ;)

by 4ggr0 5y ago

PeterisP 5y ago
It's not like wealth-gaps will be left outside of any realistic metaverse (especially one made by FB, but not only that). If people treat it seriously, then it becomes linked with all the real world factors, and wealth is obviously one of those.
- 4ggr0 5y ago
  > It's not like wealth-gaps will be left outside of any realistic metaverse Unfortunately, yeah. Would've been a chance to at least make it better virtually than how we handle these issues in real life, but I think humans will take their flaws with them wherever they go and whatever they do.
- VikingCoder 5y ago
  I saw an article years back about MMO gold farmers, I think in Mexico. They sat in an air-conditioned room, and the wages were decent - they liked the job. If we can transfer wealth from people who have money but not time, to people somewhere else in the world, who have time but not money, then I'm calling that a good thing.
  - 4ggr0 5y ago
    I downloaded an RPG last week and played it for 20hrs since then because it was so good. If I can earn my wage by slaying skeletons, searching for rare flowers or hunting some virtual deers then sign me up I guess. Although I wonder how fast it would get boring, you know, because of that whole "If transform your hobby into your job it can get boring pretty quickly"-thing.
    - VikingCoder 5y ago
      My desperate hope is that we end up paying people for creative content. Not grinding. I used to play D&D with a group of 8. We took turns being DM, but none of us were all that great at it. Well, picture how much we would pay to have someone else be our DM. $10 an hour? Could easily change someone's life, depending on the part of the world. Picture mini games that are engaging. Picture interacting with an NPC that has rich conversation trees. At some point, it's a novel or better. I dunno, man, I hope we do a good job of rewarding creative people in the future, because I can't see how the value of manual labor will be above $0. Robots will replace everything that's not creative, and a lot of things that are.
VikingCoder 5y ago
I was also advocating that people be able to make money by creating content that people visit. Perhaps schools can hand out blocks for citizenship, and for things like the Duke of Edinburgh Award, for time volunteering at an animal shelter or senior center. If you have ideas for how to "solve" the wealth gap, I'm all ears. Until then, I'm kind of stuck in that as a framework for how to solve problems.
- 4ggr0 5y ago
  That's quite a good idea, actually. I usually don't like slippery slope arguments, but I wonder how slim the margin is between "hand out blocks for time volunteering at an animal shelter" and "if you don't behave how we want you to you don't get anything" aka. some form of social credit system. But if it truly is used for good things that sounds very promising. I also like your idea of micropayments, so just people getting paid in the background when others visit or use their creations, sounds like a thing NFTs could achieve.

> You could pay to own some more blocks. Let's bring wealth-gaps to the metaverse, what could go wrong ;)

by 4ggr0 5y ago

> You could pay to own some more blocks. Let's bring wealth-gaps to the metaverse, what could go wrong ;)

It's not like wealth-gaps will be left outside of any realistic metaverse (especially one made by FB, but not only that). If people treat it seriously, then it becomes linked with all the real world factors, and wealth is obviously one of those.

4ggr0 5y ago
> It's not like wealth-gaps will be left outside of any realistic metaverse Unfortunately, yeah. Would've been a chance to at least make it better virtually than how we handle these issues in real life, but I think humans will take their flaws with them wherever they go and whatever they do.
VikingCoder 5y ago
I saw an article years back about MMO gold farmers, I think in Mexico. They sat in an air-conditioned room, and the wages were decent - they liked the job. If we can transfer wealth from people who have money but not time, to people somewhere else in the world, who have time but not money, then I'm calling that a good thing.
- 4ggr0 5y ago
  I downloaded an RPG last week and played it for 20hrs since then because it was so good. If I can earn my wage by slaying skeletons, searching for rare flowers or hunting some virtual deers then sign me up I guess. Although I wonder how fast it would get boring, you know, because of that whole "If transform your hobby into your job it can get boring pretty quickly"-thing.
  - VikingCoder 5y ago
    My desperate hope is that we end up paying people for creative content. Not grinding. I used to play D&D with a group of 8. We took turns being DM, but none of us were all that great at it. Well, picture how much we would pay to have someone else be our DM. $10 an hour? Could easily change someone's life, depending on the part of the world. Picture mini games that are engaging. Picture interacting with an NPC that has rich conversation trees. At some point, it's a novel or better. I dunno, man, I hope we do a good job of rewarding creative people in the future, because I can't see how the value of manual labor will be above $0. Robots will replace everything that's not creative, and a lot of things that are.

VikingCoder 5y ago

I was also advocating that people be able to make money by creating content that people visit. Perhaps schools can hand out blocks for citizenship, and for things like the Duke of Edinburgh Award, for time volunteering at an animal shelter or senior center. If you have ideas for how to "solve" the wealth gap, I'm all ears. Until then, I'm kind of stuck in that as a framework for how to solve problems.

4ggr0 5y ago
That's quite a good idea, actually. I usually don't like slippery slope arguments, but I wonder how slim the margin is between "hand out blocks for time volunteering at an animal shelter" and "if you don't behave how we want you to you don't get anything" aka. some form of social credit system. But if it truly is used for good things that sounds very promising. I also like your idea of micropayments, so just people getting paid in the background when others visit or use their creations, sounds like a thing NFTs could achieve.