Video games like Mario Kart are designed so that the closer you get to first place the less useful power-ups you get. This is to make the game more equal, and therefore, more fun to play.
If people were always winning or loosing by huge margins, then it would cease to be fun and people would stop playing.
The way Mario Kart works is the exact opposite of how our economy works, how our education system works, and for the most part how our entire society works as a whole.
I can see why many people give up playing the game and get into a position where they are doing just enough to get by and trying to numb themselves out the rest of the time.
The conservative rhetoric has always been that giving things to people for free, or helping them out along the way makes them work less hard, and be less involved, and also discourages the people in the lead from working as hard for less reward, but if we look at the lessons from the gaming industry which has proved to be one of the most successful and fastest growing industries on the planet, I think we would learn the opposite lesson. Evening the playing field a bit makes everyone more excited about playing and more involved for a longer period of time.
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I would never have thought that drawing political lessons from Mario Kart would work, but it seems it does.
Really nice thought.
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This is an awesome post, Ahren. Where’d you go? Missin you here on Steem, man!
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