It sounds like a dream to some people.
The reality looks more like a nightmare if the rise of play-to-earn games is any indication. There are people in the developing world who have found a new way of earning a living with games.
Exploiting the wealth gap in the developing world to fill future games with human-controlled non-playable characters is a suggestion that has been made by a cryptanist.
"With the cheap labor of a developing country, you could use people in the Philippines as characters in a game," said Kossar.
"Maybe do a random job, or just walk back and forth, fishing, telling stories, a shopkeeper, anything is really possible," he stated.
It's a sad and degrading vision and one with precedent in the world of the internet.
When hard times hit during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the play-to-earn game AxieInfinity became a way to make money.
In the Philippines, where the average income is low, thousands of people found a new way of earning money by mining in-game currency and trading it in for real-world money.
The game's in-game economy collapsed like a house of cards, with its token worthless earlier this year, despite games like Axie being victims of the crash.
There are more twisted visions as Kossar's comments show.
Rest of the World reports that some players are exploiting the wealth gap between the Western and developing world to build "guils" in Axie and similar games.
The head of one of those guilds told Rest of World that they were able to earn just enough in the Philippines. It was more difficult to recruit in Latin America because they weren't willing to work.
The guild head thought it was a good way to make money, not soul-crushing, repetitive labor.
When people talk about exploitation, that's why it's so annoying. The cost of living in the Philippines is very low and people make very little money.
It was a full-time job to make the whole scheme work because they had to play eight hours a day.
The demise of Critterz was inevitable, with the value of its in-game NFTs dropping rapidly, wiping out the wealth of the scheme.
Mojang said in July that it wouldn't support NFTs.
The play-to-earn trend is nearing an end. If Kossar has a say, it sounds like it could get a lot darker.
They built a virtual world. It all crashed down in the rest of world.
There is a new coin that makes you exercise to mine it.
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