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
"The love of money is the root of all kinds of enshitification." --Jesus Christ (Probably)
Pretty much.
"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money” (Matthew 6:24).
Everything is inherently political when you really boil it down.
Politics is a branch of philosophy about how societies should be governed. If you want to make a social commentary that is non political, you would have to avoid mentioning how society is or should be run. Also, how people should organise together.
Unfortunately it's not really a step by step guide
Step 1: Don't purchase or play games with micro-transactions
Alright coo- ah fuck they just updated it and now it has micro transactions.
Where I would love to see micro-transactions be a thing is news articles, videos, and other creative works. I'm happy to pay for someone's work, especially if I'm not paying a bunch of overhead to some shitting credit card company. At the same time, I have no wish to pay for a $20 monthly subscription for the local newspaper in Middleofnowhere, Montana just so I can read one article.
Whoa whoa whoa, are you posting a meme that’s tangentially political to the Marxist Leninist meme community?
I’m a capitalist shill and this offends me because it challenges my worldview and I don’t like that.
Clearly this should go on some other community with no subscribers. That way your message is neatly filed away somewhere nobody else will see it, especially me. I'm just in favor of proper sorting, that's all! /s
I think a lot of Eastern European socialist states had ton of bribes (or sometimes "gifts") to get anything done, including in some places "gifts" to your doctor.
Unfortunately Marx didn't eliminate all the micro transactions
Or you had a friend who worked at the store or the factory and could get you stuff because they liked you. A hundred friends could get you further than a hundred roubles.