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How Corporations and Governments Use Games to Control Us

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Workplace Gamification and Its Effects on Workplaces

Gamification lets bosses control workers at a far greater scale. It devalues play when your work starts to look like the thing that you do to relax. And it helps them save money just by by by obfuscating rates of pay and by changing them every time. Even in Amazon warehouses, even in US truck drivers are seeing gamification creep in.

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