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If you’re an older person who grew up in, say, the 1940s, is “company wants to be paid in scrip purchased at local store” really weirder than “instant social interaction worldwide via a small handheld piece of glass”?

In other words, the world is new and different to some people. What’s obviously “gaming” to you is not necessarily clear to others.



I don’t buy the “tech-illiterate” idea.

In my opinion, these are the same type of people that would have given all their livestock to a medieval-traveling pastor because God would have smite them if they didn’t.




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