Gaming To Earn Bitcoin While Bitcoining – Bitcoin Magazine

This is an opinion editorial by Tyler Parks, who has a background in biological science and spent a decade working in the restaurant industry.

Money is a topic people have come to take quite seriously. So serious in fact that grown adults wait with bated breath for news of the latest figures on consumer prices and interest rates. These have real impacts on perceptions of wealth and productivity. But what if I told you money is just a game we play, a game like any other, with a variety of rules and objectives. Money is a symbolic thing we use in order to achieve things of value and significance in the world and hence not an end in itself. A financial system is like a game board with pieces, obstacles and paths to success. The questions are: Are you aware of the kinds of money games you play on a regular basis? Did you voluntarily join or were you born into a game whose rules were never explained and with a hand you didn’t choose?

People experience stress when their concept of money is threatened. Prices of goods go up, asset prices fall, some people go bust and others get lucky. Too often we create our own anxiety because we haven’t yet evolved our view of the exact role and meaning of money. It’s not surprising we would get frustrated when we don’t even know the rules of the game. We are further limited by viewing money in terms of dollars and cents rather than a fluid reservoir of potential energy. Much of the worry evaporates when we adopt a less rigid view of money and get clear on the type of money games we want to be a part of. To get there, I want to discuss some clear examples of the association of games and money along with more figurative ways we can apply the spirit of games to our work, lifestyle, and personal philosophy.