Playing games
Work
Work verb - To be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind).
Playing games is an antonym for work.
Both terms in one sentence
- In role playing games: there were so many Living Force events that began, "You are in a bar, looking at the posting board for work" that this player felt forced to abandon his Jedi character and instead play a mercenary scoundrel.
Source: Broke Episode - Stories, especially in role playing games and Speculative Fiction, tend to have economies that simply wouldn't work under any real-world economic system.
Source: Artistic License Economics - They do try to keep the inflation somehow reined in, but when most of your players make money by creating it (by playing games) you have your work cut out for you.
Source: Money Sink
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