
Episode 33: Science fiction explains our messed-up economy
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Is World of Warcraft a Fake, Made Up Game?
World of warcraft is about getting other people to do work for you. That's the one that economists are always studying, because eve on line, you think it's about giant space battles, but actually it's about getting others to do your bidding. Is that something that's happened historically before, that people have invented, like, fantasy worlds that created their own economy? Unless, i mean, maybe the nation state is that or something emen the central bank is like a, i don't know, that's a really good question. So i wanted to play a clip from like, one of the most famous science fiction novels, which deals with a very specific economic situation. He who
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