Ratto
The revolution will be won in thigh highs and fluffy jumpers ✊️ (they/them) 🟨⬜️🟪⬛️ ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ
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I think westoids forget that Japan’s insane economic success came at the hands of essentially no tax on exports thanks to the US/WTO and not because they “got thrifty” after WWII.
That plus their famous work ethic and their ability to invest in R&D to take western inventions and improve them gave them an incredible opportunity to succeed.
But they are capitalist, and we all know that infinite growth isn’t feasible. I mean they’ve got an aging workforce, they don’t help working women and families with childcare reducing workplace participation.
How this comes as shock to any economist baffles me because the writing was on the wall for any layman.
If anyone knows better or more let me know but I’m just regurgitating the points I picked up from uni.
Yeah I think that’s the nuance I subscribe to that I failed to articulate. Do I think Putin has the best interests of others at heart? No lol, but it would be an unfair characterisation for me to equate putin and say biden when frankly there’s no competition when it comes to countries destabilised, children bombed and finance capital exported by the US.
Yep.
But to be fair as I think about it, I think a lot of it becomes conflated with what is russian critical support vs simping for putin becomes blurred in memes and jokes etc in the same way that I’ve got no issue with russia and sympathise and support them stomping out nazism and pushing back against NATO yet I myself have conflated that with Putin several times and probably not articulated myself correctly.
What did they think would happen?
They went to war with Russia after swinging their dick at them while NATO egged them on from the sidelines and now this.
It’s so sad because if the west hadn’t kept Ukraine going with empty promises of support they might have sued for peace or something sooner and waaay less people would be getting continually fucked.
Didn’t Boris Johnson say that he wouldn’t support Ukraine negotiating peace and said they need to keep fighting (using their civilians as meat shields)?! Like wtf that’s not your county dickhead!
Yep.
Support to the independent regions for breaking away from a Nazi state that slaughters them for being ethnically Russian and not respecting their sovereignty.
I’m not going to praise or offer support for putin as a fucking capitalist power but I’m not going to pretend I don’t blame NATO for kick starting this entire chain of events.
As another commenter said, it’s weird to support a country you aren’t from or live in. Do I understand why Russia have done what they’ve done? Yes I guess because more NATO imperialism and the suffocation of their borders by a intentionally sly and proactive westoid collective. Do I agree or support Putin and his government? No lol wtf I’m a communist.
Anti NATO all the way but I’m not going to naively pretend Putin is some lefty adjacent principled capitalist.
The victims here are the proletariat of Ukraine and the proletariat of Russia who lost jobs due to scummy and callous western sanctions.
I get peoples passion for hating NATO, I do because I’m the same but if there’s one stupid meme I could use to sum up some of the ML support for Putin it’s “siding with homophobic capitalists to own the libs”. I find that a bit cringe.
No need to thank me for been an opinionated bellend online, again apologies If I’ve came cross like I’m lecturing.
Overall increase in happiness is the end goal, its important we understand how to achieve this meaningfully through changing material conditions and agency vs metrics on a feedback survey.
Yeah ngl that’s not an accurate comparison.
Utilitarian as in maximising happiness? Again i disagree.
What markers of overall increased happiness are you measuring? How have you measured and defined and overall increase in happiness through f2p?
You haven’t to be blunt. At minimum you’ve assumed that more access to video games means increased happiness but we both know its not anywhere near as cut and dry as that. Given that game taste is subjective, the access to increasingly manipulative video game models has only annoyed me. Not made happiness increase so to use your logic as an example that would make f2p objectively anti-utilitarian but I’m not the world so you can’t measure it through me or a handful of individuals or users is my point.
You can’t say with any reason of certainty that access to f2p games that require micro transactions and manipulative gameplay loops have increased happiness because the material conditions of what each game and the experience mean to an individual are so nebulous.
Some people may say “having access to candy crush has made me happier” but what’s actually increased there happiness isn’t access to a video game but distraction from the world around them as an example. That can be accomplished through several means and none of them require exposing oneself to potential manipulation for profit by a company.
I’m all for increasing people’s happiness but as we’ve seen in western society, the markers and justifications for quality of life and happiness defined by those in positions of power have historically being horseshit given that access to variety of cereal in the west (as a result of capitalism they say) has not improved my material conditions or my overall mental health and happiness.
If people want to play f2p that’s there perogative and so be it, but I can’t justify the mechanisms of their design personally in the same way that British drinking culture while fun and people’s choice has not objectively increased happiness but I’d argue in the long run actively prevented it.
But who defines what’s an acceptable and available amount of income to spend on recreation vs maintaining your standard of living and who defines what arbritary level of income is ripe for manipulation?
If you wanna grift capitalists then you have all my support but regardless of someone’s income, if they are working class then that’s just preying on the people if you use manipulation and addictive game mechanics to accomplish it.
There’s isn’t any informed choice or agency when the consumption is psychologically manipulated out of a consumer.
I get where you are coming from but free-to-play isn’t just the adorable indie studio everyone’s rooting for, it’s fortnite, app games, software that essentially relies on whales to lose out for you to win.
Exploitation in this sense doesn’t just account for wage and labour exploitation but the exploitation of people’s agency and decision making through predatory marketing and psychology.
Yes. The world is objectively worse because of free to play video games.
It’s created gambling addicts and debt in ways traditional game development physically couldn’t until the onset of lootbox mechanics.
I won’t pretend it’s the no.1 issue facing society currently but there wasn’t an industry of exploitation before and through free-to-play there’s now a brand new industry that exploits people on top of the others.
Objectively it’s another capitalist grift and by that assessment yes, the world is objectively worse when you add another exploitative industry to the pile.
“People with income are good targets, both on the economical and ethical standpoint”
Isn’t a very ethical take.
That’s essentially going “as long as they have an income, even if they are below the poverty line they are ripe for predatory and manipulative marketing in the pursuit of profit.”
How very capitalist.
Personally I believe free to play games and their systems of “generating income” are nothing but hyper-capitalist conditioning and bait and switch by companies gouging out more money from consumers. Free to play wouldn’t have materialised if there wasn’t insane potential for returns (otherwise no company would take the risk) so by your assessment its fine to exploit people for profit if they have an income? That seems very cynical.
Oh god it’s the corporate art style to boot!
If you hadn’t made it explicitly clear these were different companies I’d assume it was the same site.