Considering how much if a parallel economy was built in the third world shitholes that revolves entirely around this game (and a bunch of others like Runescape) its probably a very interesting study in how capitalism itself can naturally evolve completely independent of government forces.

Like there is plenty "lmao retards gambling on pixels" on the surface, but how it reached the state it is in has all sorts of interesting aspects. Because unlike NFTs and Crypto, these types of markets were mostly organically formed.