>>2058724
Yeah and the people who play Farming Simulator or Eurotruck don't farm or drive trucks, they also write emails, attend meetings about scheduling meetings and create excel sheets documenting the money that's keeping the company afloat which basically just appears out of nowhere since everything is outsourced or automated and you have like two or three people in the West actually doing something productive which isn't just shifting around responsibilities. Even the lowliest desk jockey has become a kind of manager these days. Larping as a worker or producing something real in Tycoon game (like Simcity, Workers, Anno etc.) unlike finance feels like you're actually contributing.
I'm writing my graduate thesis right now and somehow go enamored with Anno 1800 again. I probably spent as much time every day working on my islands as I do on my thesis since that actually feels productive, although it unfortunately has no real life bearing.
