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Why Everything Is Becoming a Game
EZRA KLEIN: What might be true is if you spend all your time in point-scoring environments, you will become used to life being about scoring points. And you will begin to adopt that approach and begin to adopt those values without even realizing it. You’ll become habituated. The game will change you. That is a second principle I want to put ou... See more
C. Thi Nguyen • Are We Measuring Our Lives in All the Wrong Ways?
Corporations have discovered that there’s a profit to be made in giving away points and turning behavior into a game. Frequent-flyer miles, Peloton standings, and Duolingo streaks all exist to make us feel as though we’re doing something significant.
Seth Godin • The Song of Significance
Those simulations – played out over thousands of iterations, millions of transactions, and billions of dollars – tell us that greed can be good, that speculation can serve a purpose, that memes have value, and that people are willing to spend money to be part of something bigger than themselves (particularly if there’s the potential for a return).
Packy McCormick • The Laboratory for Complex Problems
But the thing is, more and more of life is structured like a game. Increasingly, corporations, institutions, governments have begun to understand how powerful this way of transforming and shaping our agency, our behavior is. And so social media is structured like a game. Our school and work lives are structured around points, ratings, grades, metri... See more