(which I doubt) I suggest we have a variety of apps and online games, that give you little xbox achievements for socially necessary labor or like armor upgrades for MMOs and shit, people find WOW and Candy Crush and validation from their fitbit addictive, surely we can use these principals to encourage labor while freely giving the products to people as needed.
the thought of this makes me deeply uncomfortable unless it was implemented from below rather than from above; hooking workers into dopamine loops doesn’t sound very liberatory imo
There’s very little that is a good or non-scary idea when implemented from above, always assume I mean implemented from below.
I meant like if as a society we were like “Hmm, we’re having trouble motivating ourselves to *insert thing here*, what if we made a game to make it more fun? (also the game actually has to be fun, not like the see how much cleaning you can get done in an hour game, that game sucks)”
I’m coming from a place of having really really severe ADD, I have a really hard time doing basic things like remembering appointments, and cleaning the scum off my bathtub… but a very easy time playing candycrush for six hours. This would be a really useful tool for me to have for my own life and I think it’s something other people would like.
As I said, participation should be completely optional. It should be a tool people have access to, not something forced upon them.
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 