cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/7643915
As always in capitalism, video games have largely deformed from an art form into just another means to generate profit for large corporations
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Okay but the bottom 5 are all capitalist countries.
Even if that wasn't the case, just linking a corruption index doesn't prove your original statement:
Edit: since you've edited and added words, let me add:
I would even go as far as to say that your evidence in fact suggests rather the opposite trend: countries where wealth is more equitably distributed have lower rates of corruption
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/the-system-made-me-do-it-corruption-post-communist-societies
Are you aware that this is an article about how the poorly managed transition to capitalism allowed highly concentrated wealth and power, and thus corruption?
Yeah the "postcommunist" is a very difficult word and the guy couldn't understand the meaning. He thought that it might have something to do with the post office