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I'm thinking of it like Amazon's mechanical turk.. where you become enslaved to do work and solve tasks in a virtual world for fractions of pennies in the form
by lowlevel 5y ago
I'm thinking of it like Amazon's mechanical turk.. where you become enslaved to do work and solve tasks in a virtual world for fractions of pennies in the form of credits you can't pay your rent with. Zero point one star.
- herbst 5y agoThis is also reality for some in second Life and wow too. Hence why they are great examples
- ikr678 5y agoNeal Stephenson wrote a novel (Reamde) about pretty much that exact scenario - companies putting mechanical turkish tasks into an mmo-type interface for players to grind out digital currency.
- 7thaccount 5y agoMakes you wonder if Zuck read it and was like "this sounds like a great idea".