Unemployment is an obsolete concept artificially maintained by physical borders. If you have internet access and a functional brain, you are not unemployed; you are simply mislocated in the global supply chain. What Yield Guild Games has demonstrated is not the future of video games, but the first successful experiment of massive labor arbitration worldwide without the need for visas or passports.
Think about it: a player in the Philippines or Venezuela earns in digital dollars while spending in devalued local currency. That is not "playing"; it is a high-efficiency export of digital services. YGG industrialized this process. By converting expensive digital assets (NFTs) into rentable production tools, they created the digital equivalent of a taxi cooperative, but in the metaverse. The driver does not need to own the car to work, just needs access. YGG provides the capital (the car/NFT), the user puts in the time, and the smart contract distributes the profits without any bureaucrat being able to meddle in the cash box.
This terrifies traditional states because it renders their labor policy irrelevant. You don't need a university degree validated by the ministry of education, nor a work permit, nor a local bank account. The "credential" is your history on the blockchain, your demonstrable skill. YGG is, in essence, the first transnational "union cloud": an organization that collectively negotiates the value of human time against algorithms, allowing thousands of people to organize economically as a single sovereign entity, completely ignoring whether their local government is functional or a failed state. It is the definitive separation between the State and personal Economy.
