[jakoblorz]

The article is great until

    Instead, Animal Crossing is a political hypothesis about how a different kind of world might work—one with no losers. Millions of people already have spent hours in the game stewing on that idea since the coronavirus crisis began.

Is it though? There is compound interest in this world, I don‘t think we are able to make all lenders „Tom Nook“s.

[nicbou]

A world with no losers is impossible when the world and its inhabitants requires maintenance just to keep existing.

The characters in Animal Crossing do not tire. They do not go hungry and they do not feel pain. The buildings in the village to not erode, and the in-game items appear out of thin air, without a complex manufacturing process.

In the real world, just maintaining your current condition is a constant grind. Real life is a treadmill that never stops. If you're lucky, it just moving a bit slower.

[jakoblorz]

You are perfectly describing entropy or the fight against entropy more specifically.