The Slavery In Eve Online

What one game’s design reveals about capitalism

If you’ve never played the massive, player-driven space opera Eve Online, then you are missing out on one of the biggest microcosms of laissez-faire capitalism that exists on the Internet. This 16-year-plus game is set in a fictional future where humanity has settled a distant star-cluster (referred to in-game as New Eden). Every interaction in the game is player-driven…