contender for all time 4chan post is the /biz/ one “what do you mean someone has to buy for me to sell?”
without any hyperbole, i firmly believe this person learned about economics from selling items in video games.
this is somewhat related to the whole “maybe video games don’t cause violence but they do cause check fraud” thing
but that was more about how some people seem to have learned from video games that “not having a 100% effective system to stop people from doing something in the first place” qualifies as “consenting to let them do the thing,” and that therefore anything you can successfully do is, by definition, not against the rules, but was just an exploitable loophole in the rules
And this is more about people learning from video games that “everyone and everything around me is an NPC and has no reason for their behavior outside of Enhancing My Own Experience of this world”
…video games aren’t the problem, but people’s frightening difficulty with the distinction between fiction and reality is a problem and I do not know what to do about it
