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Now, I also agree that that is rational, for now.
現在我依然覺得這很理性。
But it is not, by any means, an optimal situation.
但是，無論如何，這不是最佳選項。
We have to start making the real world more like a game.
我們不得不從現在開始把現實社會構建得像一個游戲。
So, I take my inspiration from something that happened 2,500 years ago.
因此，我從發生于2500年前的一些事情中獲取靈感。
These are ancient dice, made out of sheep's knuckles. Right?
這些是古老的骰子，由羊的關節骨制作而成。
Before we had awesome game controllers,we had sheep's knuckles.
在我們設計出游戲控制器前，我們人類已經擁有了羊關節制作的骰子。
And these represent the first game equipment designed by human beings.
這就是人類設計出的最早的游戲器械。
And if you're familiar with the work of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, you might know this history,which is the history of who invented games and why.
如果你對古希臘歷史學家的作品比較熟悉的話，如古希臘歷史學家希羅多德，你就會了解這段歷史游戲發明的歷史是什么以及原因是什么呢。
Herodotus says that games, particularly dice games,were invented in the kingdom of Lydia during a time of famine.
希羅多德說游戲，特別是骰子游戲是由Lydia（小亞細亞西部的富裕古國）王國在一次大饑荒中發明的。
Apparently, there was such a severe famine that the king of Lydia decided that they had to do something crazy.
顯然，歷史上曾經有過這么一次嚴重的饑荒，Lydia國王決定做一些他們不得不做的瘋狂的事情。
People were suffering. People were fighting.
當時人民在遭受痛苦，互相爭斗。
It was an extreme situation, they needed an extreme solution.
形式非常危機。他們需要一個極端的解決方案。
So, according to Herodotus, they invented dice games and they set up a kingdom-wide policy:
據希羅多德說，他們因此而發明了骰子游戲并且制定了一個全國范圍內的政策：
On one day, everybody would eat,and on the next day, everybody would play games.
某一天，所有人可以吃東西，但是第二天，所有人就只能玩游戲。
And they would be so immersed in playing the dice games because games are so engaging,and immerse us in such satisfying blissful productivity,they would ignore the fact that they had no food to eat.
人們專心的玩骰子游戲，因為游戲極具吸引力，可以使我們沉浸在如此自我滿足的幸福“生產”活動中，人們就會忘掉他們沒有食物可吃的事實。
And then on the next day, they would play games;and on the next day, they would eat.
第二天人們就會通過玩游戲度日，接下來的第二天他們就會去吃東西。
And according to Herodotus,they passed 18 years this way,surviving through a famine by eating on one day and playing games on the next.
據希羅多德所說，Lydia國的人民用這種方式度過了18年，用吃一天、玩游戲玩一天的方式，他們順利的度過了大饑荒。
Now, this is exactly, I think,how we're using games today.
這也是現如今我們，如何看待游戲的。
We're using games to escape real-world suffering.
我們通過玩游戲逃避現實中的痛苦。
We're using games to get away from everything that's broken in the real environment, everything that's not satisfying about real life,
我們通過玩游戲來避開現實環境中那些，殘缺不全、不能令人滿意的東西。
and we're getting what we need from games.
同時從中獲取我們所需的東西。
