TOURNAMENT POLL THREAD:
I registered six domain names to eventually collect all my writings on Georgism and Land Value Tax and maybe do some other things like interactive apps or whatever.
Help me pick!
First round of polls in thread below.
ROUND 1, GROUP 1: Which domain do you like best?
Criteria: Memorable, easy to google, easy to spell, you would probably click on that, catches your interest, etc.
ROUND 1, GROUP 2: Which domain do you like best?
Criteria: Memorable, easy to google, easy to spell, you would probably click on that, catches your interest, etc.
Some people say Land is not an important thing in the economy. The evidence says otherwise, read this thread for more.
I have five testable hypotheses for whether land is a "really big deal" or not:
1. Most of the value of urban real estate is land 2. America's land rents equal a sizable % of government spending 3. Land represents a significant % of all major bank loans
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4. Land represents a significant % of all gross personal assets 5. Land ownership is highly concentrated among the wealthy
My two obsessions keep colliding: another blockchain real estate startup, but instead of it being tokenization of virtual real estate that exists in the digital world, it's the digitization of physical real estate speculation shoved onto the blockchain:
People say there's a coming "crypto culture war", but there's actually TWO.
The first is external -- crypto maxis versus normies -- with the first front in the game world, where traditional gamers and gamedevs are putting up pretty fierce resistance.
The second is internal
Crypto gaming projects are seriously lacking experienced game dev talent, but skeptical game developers (my own tribe, more or less) are mostly not willing to work on crypto projects -- many refuse to on principle and those that don't risk alienating their friends and colleagues
People coming from crypto land severely underestimate how deep the distrust and disgust coming from traditional game developers can be. Like friends and colleagues will block you for openly working on these projects. Hiring trad. game devs is going to require hazard pay.
Predictions for next week regarding the big Axie paper my colleagues and I put out:
1) The cryptogaming discourse hype evolves from "Play To Earn" to "Play AND Earn"
2) Opportunistic Axie clones prematurely try to dance on Axie's grave
Don't count Axie out just yet, they have a ridiculous war chest and it's not clear how much wood remains to burn through; don't forget they intentionally slowed their own growth by halving payouts.
They're read the report and if they take our concerns to heart they could come out with any number of surprises when it comes to the new upcoming features; hopefully they avoid the predictable dangers we laid out in the report.
After months of incredible growth, the daily earnings of the typical player of Axie Infinity (a "scholar" in the Philippines) have fallen below the Philippines' minimum wage line for all but the high ranking players, and even they have seen earnings decline since August
This is just one of many findings of a highly detailed research project that I worked on in partnership with @naavik_co
@naavik_co "Scholars" are players, typically in developing countries, who cannot afford to purchase 3 Axies (NFT-based virtual pokemon-like creatures) which are necessary to play the game. They are loaned these assets by "sponsors" who take a cut of their earnings.