Sam Biddle

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Infamous · Why Roblox Is Everywhere Right Now · 22 Jan 2026 podcast

You paid once and it was either good or it was bad, but it was a finished product.

Whereas today and going back to things like I think games like Farmville, which we already mentioned were pioneers of this, you get a kind of shitty version.

And if you want to make it better, you have to pay to unlock things.

And you see that outside of games and outside of products or entertainment for children, too.

If you're ordering takeout, like the contemporary way we feed ourselves is you like order your bucket of slop from Uber Eats.

And if you wanted to arrive faster, you can pay $3 more.

Anyway, it refers broadly to the fact that everything sucks and you can pay your way out of it slightly if you want.

So I think Roblox is really emblematic of that.

Yeah, I mean, we could say it's a good thing that if you can't afford the latest and greatest game console or your family can't afford a brand new computer, you could still have forms of entertainment accessible to you.

The fact that you can play Roblox on basically anything is a huge part of its popularity.

Something that I've noticed, and I noticed as I was working on this piece, was that once I started learning about Roblox and playing it, I started to see it in public a lot more.

I would notice just being at a Starbucks or something

The kind of like spare phone that a family might give to a kid to keep them distracted, that has become like the Roblox machine that you can hand to a kid if they're in the backseat or at the airport or at a coffee shop or whatever to keep them distracted.

And if you don't want to pay any money to keep them distracted, Roblox is just a turnkey solution for that.

It was founded by a gentleman named Dave Buzuki, a host on a libertarian radio station.

That was the first thing that I'd ever seen of him in his professional life, which I didn't really have the chance to get into this in my article, but I think explains a lot about Roblox as a platform.

But he got his start in tech doing educational software for kids.

I think his idea was to create computer toys for children where they could learn about elementary physics or something that could be incorporated into a teacher's lesson plan.

pretty easily and that idea of an educational toy is the great grandparent of roblox interesting okay wait why do you think libertarianism relates to roblox like how do you think that informed this

You know, well, it's a vision of a society that is entirely the private sector.

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