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A Sweatshop in Your Pocket

By: Editors

Crypto-based video games like Axie Infinity are no fun for the Filipinos who play them for a living.

“We believe in a world future where work and play become one,” proclaims video game developer Sky Mavis’s website. In the Philippines and other developing countries, the studio has given us a preview of that future, and it’s bleak. During the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of desperate Filipinos replaced their usual income sources with endless hours […]

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“We believe in a world future where work and play become one,” proclaims video game developer Sky Mavis’s website. In the Philippines and other developing countries, the studio has given us a preview of that future, and it’s bleak. During the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of desperate Filipinos replaced their usual income sources with endless hours […]

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“We believe in a world future where work and play become one,” proclaims video game developer Sky Mavis’s website. In the Philippines and other developing countries, the studio has given us a preview of that future, and it’s bleak. During the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of desperate Filipinos replaced their usual income sources with endless hours […]

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“We believe in a world future where work and play become one,” proclaims video game developer Sky Mavis’s website. In the Philippines and other developing countries, the studio has given us a preview of that future, and it’s bleak. During the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of desperate Filipinos replaced their usual income sources with endless hours […]

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