Chapotraphouse

Don't anybody tell them what country they're describing:

u/SDFX-Inc 11h ago edited 11h ago

Businesses aren’t going to regulate themselves. They exist for one thing and one thing only, and that is to make a profit. There can be no such thing as ‘moral regulation’ because corporations are amoral by design.

What we need are strong governments and regulators with teeth, so corporations caught with their hands in the cookie jar don’t simply pay a fine that is only a small portion of the profits they made doing the wrong thing in the first place; the price corporations pay must be heavy, existential. Corporations that do harm must face the threat of disbandment or nationalization, and its executives and owners charged for their crimes and if found guilty, sent to prison.

First they came for the housing and I said nothing as I lived with my mom

Then they came for the healthcare and I said nothing as I have a healthy diet of Doritos and mtn dew

Then they came for gaming and there was nobody to speak for me

They targeted Gamers. Gamers.

critical support to private equity in its struggle against gamer scum

It doesn't even improve or change anything for the capitalists either.

The working class has less money now than they did thirty years ago and they were giving ALL of their money to the economy for products then.

Switching from buying and owning shit to renting doesn't actually change the amount the workers have to spend. They will be forced to spend more on fewer things, with less income.

This will result in less demand because people will have less money, and less demand means businesses will close as people decide what is the least essential thing they can cut back on. Some of them will be bought and absorbed, others will just shutter. The absorbed products won't continue they will just absorb the renting customer base into their preferred product line, much like your ISP when it buys the local competitor doesn't continue to sell that competing company's product but just absorbs the customers.

Everything will trend towards fewer and fewer options, less choice, fewer products.

With less diversity in the economy the entire thing will be less robust. A problem in a company among 5000 companies is minor, but when there's just a hundred then it's a big issue.

We didn't all spring forth from our eggs waving copies of Capital and quoting Parenti. It takes different experiences for some of us to realize shit is fucked.

it’s a good thing they don’t really make games worth buying new hardware for anymore

Listen: you all like to dismiss PE as some sort of bloodsucking parasite on the face of humanity but I'll have you know they inherited their wealth fair and square

Market planning and allocation of real resources at its best. Those with most $ (acquired from the Government and bank credit) get all the real resources.

The comments talking about how bad or expensive PC gaming was in the '90s make it seem like every new video game released on PC required the absolutely newest components and wouldn't work on anything else. As if games didn't support ranges of hardware back then. Also even if they didn't, it says a lot about the economy people could afford to upgrade their PCs so often.