Ready Player One lets the viewer pretend, in video-game-like fashion, that games matter a lot to the real world. A lot more than they actually matter. Can also pretend that a game developer has a lot more monopoly power than they ever do.
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Replying to @robinhanson
Video games don't matter, except insofar as they're a global industry with $78 billion in revenue last year. ;) https://www.statista.com/statistics/246888/value-of-the-global-video-game-market/ …
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Replying to @primalpoly
World product was $79 trillion, making video game revenue one part in a thousand.
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Replying to @robinhanson
The 1/1000th part of the global economy that accounts for 1/3 of the fun... :)
10:54 AM - 1 Apr 2018
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