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Re:Counter-Strike's player economy is in a multi-billion dol... by pprotas on Friday October 24, 2025 @02:11AM (#45691376)
What makes this (or cypto) economy ‘artificial’, and why is our real-world economy not artificial?

Plenty of market manipulation and rug pulls happening on the regular stock market as well

Re:Counter-Strike's player economy is in a multi-billion dol... by rkomorn on Friday October 24, 2025 @02:24AM (#45691470)
They wrote the scarcity is artificial.

I'd say that's true: if you have one skin, there's virtually zero production cost to making more copies of said skin.

It's not that different for many things in the real world, I suppose (eg: if you sell way above cost, then your cost is also arguably zero), but I'd say it's magnified in the digital world (or even with NFTs).