The points in a game are artificial and not directly connected to real life. They're disattached from the rest of material reality. But investing isn't like that, right? Like one of the things that I worry about about people that do anything for more Twitter likes or anything for more money is that if you treat it like a game they don't have an ethical free get out of being evil card.
In everyday life, your value system is complicated and rich. Games make that system simple, and you know exactly how well you’ve done.
C. Thi Nguyen is a philosophy professor at University of Utah and author of the book Games: Agency As Art. Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner caught up with Nguyen to discuss: - The bright and dark sides of gamification - How Twitter changed the way we communicate - Good, bad, and evil games
Today’s conversation comes from a recent episode of David's weekly podcast, Rule Breaker Investing. To hear the entire show, click here: https://www.fool.com/podcasts/rule-breaker-investing/2023-02-15-from-twister-to-twitter-games-and-c
Host: David Gardner Guest: C. Thi Nguyen Producer: Ricky Mulvey Engineer: Rick Engdahl
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