One of the reasons I get so obsessed over this game Factorio from time to time is that it mimics exactly what I want to accomplish in real life.
Belts! Splitters! Smelt! Insert! Assemble! Volume! Bottlenecks!
It's almost embarrassing that I can come home from my job at Amazon and play a game that almost exactly mimics the warehouse I work in. You'd think I'd get bored of it. Nah!
Power! Circuits! Plastic! Processors! Engines!
Here's what I've been 'working' on for what the game tells me has been 92 hours so far. Time has no meaning in my black hole of gaming.
Behold! My 'infinite' Steel bus line connected to my train network!
So what's the point here? I'm not about to let the thousands of hours I've spent playing video games go to waste. I know a lot about how economies should work from all this.
A game like Factorio could easily be connected to crypto. This is a sandbox game. The first sandbox game I have ever liked (sorry Minecraft). However, the direction of the game could easily be shifted with crypto. Imagine enthusiasts such as myself creating levels and entire campaigns and being paid to do so. Imagine being paid to play the game itself and complete said "puzzles".
4-lane copper bus circuit maker
To give you an idea of the scale of this little base I've created, it takes a couple minutes to drive across it in the buggy cars you can create. I'm thinking about setting up a passenger train powered by nuclear fuel just so I can move about faster.
Coal liquefaction plant
Automation in the real world is the future
However, it must be decentralized or billions of people will be displaced. Imagine a thousand people starting a mini-factory in their garage but they all start working together to complete finished products and get paid for their work fairly. This is how I envision things going.
If centralized entities continue to control everything, it won't matter how good technology gets or how streamlined production becomes. The distribution of wealth will become so abysmal (if it isn't already) that the entire economy will fail regardless.
Conclusion
Just trying to get back into the swing of blogging. Need to decompress all this madness I've been up to and tie it back into my endgame. At the core of programming itself lies the need to automate logic with computing. As we express this need in the physical world, 3D-printing, decentralized production, and distributed ledger technology will become more and more important over time.