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I think I saw that episode of Black Mirror.

Sounds like gear and gold grinding services for popular games/MMOs in Asia in decades past.

I wonder what happened to the people running those MMO gold farms...?

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/steve-bannon-world-o...

> well, I expect people in poor countries to start posting like mad in the hopes of getting Posting Points which they can resell to Americans and other people with more money than sense.

For what it's worth, that actually happened but with real money instead, there were entire local economies in Macedonia and other countries simply financed by the advertising income of "fake news" sites: https://money.cnn.com/interactive/media/the-macedonia-story/