“Dopamine sites" are all the rage in 🇰🇷South Korea and elsewhere in Asia.
Users browse, add items to a cart, enter a delivery address, and click the order button. Then a simulated courier accepts the order and heads to their location. Users can track the delivery in real time on a map. Nothing arrives. No money changes hands.
Users say the fake checkout feels close enough to the real thing to scratch the itch. They still get the little rush of pressing “order,” even though the delivery guy, like financial consequences, never actually appears.
Next stage in the cultural development of the society: from materialism to pseudo-materialism?