Its fun seeing Snow Crash become reality. People getting rich selling property inside the Metaverse that technically has no restrictions.
Just do an Eve Online and let people fight each other for it. Its a game, who cares
Just do an Eve Online and let people fight each other for it. Its a game, who cares
The current state of EVE sees "land" (read: turf) apportioned by violence, which actually is a very crude (and violent) approximation of Harberger taxes! You must constantly pay something to defend your territory, and that scales with how valuable it is, because others will make escalating bids -- denominated in violence -- to acquire your land from you. So you want to pay enough to defend it without paying so much its no longer worth holding. I'm working on a policy paper about digital real estate and I'm calling this method "Blood taxes" with EVE as the central example.
Yeah, at least then people might learn the lessons of war that society should already know.
not quite sure what the lesson is there.
“is war as old as gravity?”
“are there animals that like peace, and animals that like war?”
“is making war an instinct we inherited from our hunting, or our farming ancestors?”
“war is the best game and the worst life”
- War & Peace, Ryuichi Sakamoto
i think it's called facebook