Animal Crossing is also a game where natural resources are infinite and not rivalrous, alienation of labor is impossible, the labor theory of value dominates, and comparative advantage doesn't exist. You make money by personally extracting resources from land and (optionally) creating finished goods with your own labor. Demand is constant (other than the daily 'hot items'). You cannot saturate the market or run out of supplies.
So it's not just that it's a world where you won't starve in a ditch for not working hard enough, but a world where your reward is reliably and indefinitely proportionate to your labor investment. If you work hard, you will succeed; the harder you work, the more you will succeed. Who wouldn't want to live and work in that world?
So it's not just that it's a world where you won't starve in a ditch for not working hard enough, but a world where your reward is reliably and indefinitely proportionate to your labor investment. If you work hard, you will succeed; the harder you work, the more you will succeed. Who wouldn't want to live and work in that world?