Not knowing a distinction does not mean that the distinction is not seriously influencing your life.
'Gameworld' is a distinction. Let's dive into this.
We human beings interact with each other through social systems called 'gameworlds'.
Each gameworld has a context, distinctions, values, rules-of-engagement (how to play the game), and an intended outcome.
For example, one gameworld in modern culture is called Post Office. The way to play Post Office is to bring your package to a post-office building. There you stand silently in line until one of the government workers has time to help you. You fill out the address form in the proper way including the postal code, then pay what they ask, and "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night" slows the couriers from delivering your mail. The purpose of the post-office gameworld is to make a profit. How do you know? Because if the post office delivers your mail on time but does not make a profit this governmental service must be shut down or privatized.
In the post-office gameworld you might want to pay with a credit card. But Credit Card is a different gameworld! How do you play the gameworld called Credit Card? You hand the person behind the cash register a plastic card with your name and account number on it, and a microchip inside. Then your bank transfers numbers from your bank account into the post-office bank account. However, to play in the gameworld of Credit Card you must already be playing in the gameworld called Bank Account.
And to play in the Bank Account Gameworld you must first be playing in the Earning Money to Survive gameworld. How do you play in the money gameworld? It is a religion. To play in the money gameworld you need to believe that certain papers and coins, and more recently, digits in a computer program, have value. Then you have to acquire some of these papers or digits. How? One way is to make an agreement with someone else who already has money to give you a certain amount of it per hour if you do whatever they tell you to do, even if you do not like what you are doing. Other ways to get money include spending your time and attention trying to own properties whose 'value increases', or to win at gambling games such as trading stocks and options, or investing in digital currencies or Non-Fungible Tokens.
The Earning Money to Survive gameworld has the purpose of making profit for the company stockholders gameworld, and for paying taxes to the government gameworld so that the government can pay people to work in the Post Office gameworld.
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