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You determine your own worth of something. But thats literally what paying for something or a service is. Balatro is worth its price to me, I can play it for hours now, not touch it an play it for hours in a year, two, whatever. Someone made a nice game, I buy it and play it, it's about as simple as capitalism gets in games.
Not everything has to have infinite value forever, I will get bored of a game and will never play it again, does that mean I should have never bought it and enjoyed the experience it gave me??? Am I missing your point here or is that just a wild take?
You don't, entirely, and saying that is like saying "well love is just biochemistry. It's all just molecules interacting."
And yeah. That's ONE way of seeing it, a very materialistic and wholly insufficient and even trite way of looking at it devoid of human soul and the actualities of living that experience.
It's basically a resignation to what capitalism is trying to sell you- units of something, you become a statistic, it's not the enjoyment of the food, it's about a sterile transaction between patron and chef, where you get so and so filled to such and such a degree, and that has some specific arbitrary value in money.
It's just such a consumer zombie way of perceiving the world, I just can't.
I'd like to live in that idealistic world you have in your head, but we don't live in that, humans are selfish by nature, so we have capitalism. Doesn't mean we cannot control it, keep it fair. One person makes a cool piece of art? Sure, I'll pay them. You are looking far too deep into it, I'm sorry. You're going to stress yourself out.
No, capitalism is selfish by nature, it makes and promotes people to be selfish. People are genetically altruistic and cooperative. Things, and ownership, and selfishness, is what makes society bad.
You are looking far too shallow into it, and you will stay a slave to that paradigm.
How do you think we ended up with capitalism
I think a select few extremely narcissistic, cynical, and nihilistic psychopaths used their inherited power to institute and entrench a form of resource distribution and valuation that would secure their dynastic succession for centuries and millennia.
People are altruistic, that's why capitalism even works in the first place- in order to compete, we absolutely need to be able to cooperate, if at the very least to all agree on the framework within which we will compete in the first place, to agree on the rules by which we will play. Please do note, the ostensible motivation and raison d'etre of capitalism is that it is the system which will bring about the greatest good for all participants.
Allegedly.