E24: Tragedy of the UGC Commons & Gold Bugs

04/13/24 • 63 min

Eric reminds us that The Wizard of Oz is a heated monetarism debate, while Chris goes six layers deep on enforcing royalties. Phil thinks Warzone Mobile is a good executive Powerpoint math muddled with poor execution, but good economics secured him Taylor Swift tickets.

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Game Economist Cast - E24: Tragedy of the UGC Commons & Gold Bugs

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Yeah , the Wizard of Oz . You guys know about this . You guys probably know . No , the Wizard of Oz was originally written as like a pro minting silver minting propaganda piece . Oz O-Z ounce was a reference to the US mint and in the movie it was Technicolor , so they made her shoes ruby . But the whole thing , the yellow brick road , is like oh , everyone says , follow the gold