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Video Game Execs Are Ruining Video Games (jacobin.com)
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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 76 points 6 months ago (10 children)

It's the unchecked capitalism.

Better labor protection and antitrust laws would help, but the fundamental push is towards maximum exploitation of worker and customer. Power consolidates and then abuse for profit becomes easy.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Whereas in a communist economy where people didn't have to struggle to survive, game developers could focus on improving their craft and telling whatever the funnest story they can think of is. We can already see this on a small scale with the difference between indie passion projects like Hades, and AAAA cash grabs like suicide squad. Imagine if everyone could afford to chase their passion instead of money.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 6 months ago

You could also probably get there with universal basic income

[–] BigFatNips@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Don't understand why you're being downvoted. The only thing there I disagree with is the use of the word "economy" 😂

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago

Probably because leftists use "communism" like it's an immediate and obvious goal, but dismiss any criticism of past efforts to actually get there. It effectively becomes an unquestionable fantasy.

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