Proctoring software won't be around for long. It's an extremely flawed solution to the problem of cheating in digital exams. There are much better ways to solve cheat proof exams without invasions of privacy.
Marketing is broken. It's 99% waste. It's causing many problems and this is just one of them.
Over and over again businesses make products that aren't really what people want and then they do whatever they can to shove them down the markets' throat. Businesses will advertise to 1000 people to get only one customer. Targeting is only effective when people's privacy is being violated.
I think this is one of the biggest problems no one is talking about.
You are posting this question into what is mostly an anti-crypto echo chamber.
It's a bit like asking "is the internet just a big scam" in 1998 at a magazine and newspaper trade conference.
The people here are too engrossed in the world they built and lack the imagination for how it could be completely transformed to offer you an objective answer.
My opinion is that 98% of crypto is either a scam or just bad ideas that will fail, but the remaining 2% will be the foundation the future of commerce and technology will be built on.
Because it is the point. This whole thing is about controlling the narrative and censorship. Whether you agree with what the people are saying or not, if you think they shouldn't have a forum to say it that's censorship.
The institutions that previously had more control over the narrative and are losing the control have the most to lose.
I never bought into microtransactions / paying for cosmetic skins... Until I came across a game on steam that released limited sets of items which could them be resold.
It changed it from being an expense to an investment. Some of the items I bought 10x in value, and I sold two for more than I spent on everything.
I also enjoyed using the items in the game.
If steam and the game company both got paid when I bought/sold the items then I'm happy.
These were cosmetic items that didn't give me an advantage... So they didn't make the game less fun, just an outlet for expression.
If GameStop executes well on this and brings in the big publishers, this could be a cash cow.
I worked in retail sales from 2004-2006 and I remember management ordering us to increase prices on items leading up to big sales. It seemed like fraud and it made me feel icky doing it.
Especially when we would replace labels of an item that cost $99 to say that it cost $139 and was now on sale for $99.