alt Hacker NewsThe "meta" has been solved and everyone's just min-maxing now. The few who aren't min-maxing are considered a waste.
AI, crypto, etc. feels like potentially new meta opportunities and it is eerie how similar the mania is whenever a new major patch for a game is released. Everyone immediately starts exploring how to exploit and min-max the new niche. Everyone wants to be the first to "discover" a viable meta.
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Brilliant take.
Competition nowadays is so intense and fine-grained. Every new innovation or exploration is eventually folded into the existing exploits especially in monopolistic markets. Pricing models don’t change, revenue streams neither, consumer rarely benefits from these optimisation efforts, all leads to greater profit margins by any means.
The game is social engineering to "exit" for early investors to bag holders through an IPO just like an ICO. The irony is with crypto everyone knows it's a scam, but with IPO's there's still true believers who think the business operations will be sustained. Uber is the case study. They've just hid their financials in shell companies that assume a future monopoly of the entire planet.
https://boingboing.net/2019/05/08/forever-unprofitable.html