It could be argued that gaming as a level up heirarchical aspiration based unlocking mechanism echoes many instituional established orders that have risen over Centuries as what we percieve to be the development of Modern civilisation. Gaining access to higher levels through obedience, awards earned & via indoctrination or learning are all inherent in Royal, Military, Political, Educational, Esoteric Religious establishments & orders...

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Kaballah

The history of the modern democratic state can be understood as a story of shifting authority and lawmaking, first from private potentates to sovereign monarchs, and then to publicly accountable democracies. Today, this centuries-long democratizing trend is rapidly being reversed. Western democracies are not simply embracing neoliberalism in the sense of deregulating the economy. Elites are pursuing something aptly described as a new form of feudalism, in which entire realms of public law, public property, due process, and citizen rights revert to unaccountable control by private business. The system of finance, once supervised by bank regulatory agencies and the Securities and Exchange Commission, has been delegated to private realms of law. The financial collapse of 2008 is best understood as the seizure, corruption, and abuse of entire domains of regulation and jurisprudence. Laws to protect workers and consumers, reflecting 70 years of struggle to expand rights, are now erased by compulsory arbitration regimes. Trade law permits similar private tribunals to overturn or sidestep public regulation. Tech platform monopolies have created a proprietary regime where they can crush competitors and invade consumer privacy by means of onerous terms, often buried in online “terms of service” provisions. The unity of common scientific inquiry has been balkanized by confidentiality agreements and abuses of patents, as scientific knowledge comes to be “owned” by private entities. Companies like Monsanto, manipulating intellectual property and trade law, prevent farmers from following the ancient practice of keeping seeds for the next planting season. This is not deregulation or neoliberalism. It is legally sanctioned private jurisprudence—neo-feudalism. The Prospect see also: The Daily Beast: Joel Kotkin - The Coronavirus Is Also Spreading a Dark New Era of Neo-Feudalism

The crypto investment giant expanded further into the world of trading by buying global crypto exchange Luno and crypto mining firm Foundry. DCG is valued at $10 billion, and employees recently sold $700 million worth of shares on secondary markets to SoftBank and Google parent Alphabet’s venture capital branch. Silbert is holding his shares. He even told the Wall Street Journal that he sees Standard Oil, the conglomerate created by John D. Rockefeller, as inspiration for DCG. - Coindesk

This will be a controllled demolition; as impactful as 911

"In 2019, when he was the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney floated the idea of a global digital currency – backed by a number of central banks – as a replacement for the dollar. Carney said his plan would help stabilise financial markets unsettled by trade and currency disputes. Were Carney’s plan ever to come to fruition it would mark the final stage in the shift from a system where currencies were backed by something tangible – gold – to one where they are virtual. It is not hard to see why there are those who feel uneasy about this."

WEF (formed 1971 by Klaus Schwab) is funded by its 1,000 member companies- typically global enterprises are five billion plus US dollars in turnover wikipedia (Left) 1971: Nixon abandons the Gold Standard, did his decision set the ball rolling?