one last screed about gamification

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A bit late to the party, but this just in from the left-wing journal of politics and culture, Jacobin:

Gamification Is Exploitation

The trend of gamification – applying elements of game play to other areas of life – is the apex of the neoliberal fantasy, rendering both work and our leisure time outside of it into a series of games that we supposedly enjoy playing for their own sake.

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