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celeste, do games w Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands
@celeste@kbin.earth avatar

It feels like companies like this eventually become vehicles for like 5 people to make lots of money. You can't let go the guy making these mistakes - lining his pocket is the purpose of the company! It'd be ridiculous to fire him! Unless some of the other 4 people making money decide he's keeping them from lining their pockets.

Buske,

You just described the US stock market.

Viking_Hippie,

Which is why stock trading should be abolished and outlawed.

SheeEttin,

If you banned investing, the rich people who already have money would be the only ones who could afford to open businesses.

Viking_Hippie,

Not necessarily, no. Other people with common aims would still be able to band together via nonprofits, credit unions, labor unions and the like.

It would actually be MUCH more effective once the most effective tool for exploding and concentrating wealth is out of the way.

pupbiru,

also loans still exist regardless of investment like stocks, which is the way most small businesses start anyway

floquant,

No common folk is getting rich thanks to the stock market. Maybe richer if they’re lucky, but let’s not pretend it’s a tool for social mobility. It’s the opposite.

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

If you banned investing gambling

EightBitBlood,
@EightBitBlood@lemmy.world avatar

What incentive does a rich billionaire have for starting a business? Money? They have billions.

The only business they start are for themselves / the benefit of other businesses they own. Their wealth accumulates, and it is spent only to perpetuate its growth. It does not find its way into new businesses. It does not create new sector growth.

However, the people that want billions and don’t have it have a hell of an incentive to start a business and run it well.

Tollana1234567,

or at least heavily taxed, which almost never happens because everyone in congress commiting insider trading wouldnt want that.

lolrightythen,

The housing market is basically an inverse wealth tax.

DebatableRaccoon, do gaming w Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands

Of course not, that’d be madness!

terminhell, do gaming w How Relooted, A Game About Reclaiming African Artifacts From Western Museums, Ended Up Being Shown By A White Guy At Summer Game Fest

I’m not saying it’s right, or fixes past evils…but can we stop pretending the modern US have been the only ones that have ever done evil shit? At this point it feels more like crying wolf for the sins of our fathers. Every country, every era has dirty laundry.

araneae,

Okay, well, here’s a video game about that and you don’t have to play it if you don’t want. Heisting back your cultural heirlooms is a great premise I could get behind for any culture.

Vodulas,

This isn’t dirty laundry, this is current events. This event happened last week.

If you are referring to the game, the article calls out the US and UK, but the game description itself just says western, which probably means several locations. But even if it is just the US and UK, who cares? The US and UK have a fuckton of dirty laundry that is still being aired out, and this South African dev has the right to address concerns with those two countries that have had direct harm to their culture

amino,

if the shoe doesn’t fit then stop acting like your name is Cinderella

Zoop, do gaming w How Relooted, A Game About Reclaiming African Artifacts From Western Museums, Ended Up Being Shown By A White Guy At Summer Game Fest

I’m so disappointed, but not at all surprised. I feel for them. :( Thank you for sharing this here. The game sounds awesome. I hope they’re successful with it and it gets really popular and helps educate people.

Aatube, do games w Hong Kong's Removal Of Taiwan-Made Video Game Actually Spread The Game Further, Developer Says

oh god is taiwan learning to gacha?

... the political prowess of gacha remains to be seen

Semjaza,

East Asia loves gatcha. It’s a huge thing all across the region.

makingStuffForFun, do games w Hong Kong's Removal Of Taiwan-Made Video Game Actually Spread The Game Further, Developer Says
@makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml avatar

Streisand effect in full effect.

stoy, do gaming w GeoGuessr Map Makers Make Most Popular Maps Unplayable In Protest Of Saudi-Backed Esports World Cup

Just heads up, the protest have worked, Geoguessr will not be participating in the event.

ign.com/…/geoguessr-pulls-out-of-esports-world-cu…

unexposedhazard, do gaming w GeoGuessr Map Makers Make Most Popular Maps Unplayable In Protest Of Saudi-Backed Esports World Cup

More civilian boycott, fuck yeah :)

stoy, do gaming w GeoGuessr Map Makers Make Most Popular Maps Unplayable In Protest Of Saudi-Backed Esports World Cup

Huge Geoguessr fan here, This is a great protest, I will take down my maps as well!

theyllneverfindmehere, do games w A Fond Farewell To Polygon, From The People Who Worked There - Aftermath

Sad to see. I didn’t love everything they produced but they still had winners. They kind if reintroduced me to the gang over at Dropout. I hope everyone lands in their feet, and it’d be nice to see some of then over at Dropout.

celeste, do games w A Fond Farewell To Polygon, From The People Who Worked There - Aftermath
@celeste@kbin.earth avatar

I thought they were more interesting than average, even when I disagreed with a take. The kind of site there should be a ton of, with varying takes for people to despise to a baffling degree. Sad to see it gone, or "gone" and turned intp a slop factory with known terrible working conditions for the people left.

Regardless of feelings about the people themselves, it's awful that they fired the union members probably deliberately at this point in the sale so they wouldn't have to go along with their contracts.

zecg, do games w A Fond Farewell To Polygon, From The People Who Worked There - Aftermath
@zecg@lemmy.world avatar

Who’ll now provide shit takes so divorced from public opinion?

gradual, do games w A Fond Farewell To Polygon, From The People Who Worked There - Aftermath

They had a real disconnect with the gamer community.

Way too overproduced, which means they’re spending more money on nonsense while driving away people who can see through it.

Honestly, no sympathy from me. Glad there’s one fewer company that’s just “checking boxes.”

celeste,
@celeste@kbin.earth avatar

Checking what boxes?

NuXCOM_90Percent,

Having the gall to talk about social issues or the state of the industry as a whole rather than just being an “apolitical” hype machine.

It really sucks that Polygon is dead because they wrote some ridiculously fun and even thought provoking articles over the years. But, silver linings, it is an even bigger magnet for people to show their asses than ronnie radke.

Block list getting LOTS of exercise out of this.

Goronmon,

Yup, at the end of the day, the community just wants content that glazes the games/devs they like and hates on the games/devs they don’t.

Doing anything else is going to make a lot of the community upset

MITM0, do games w A Fond Farewell To Polygon, From The People Who Worked There - Aftermath
@MITM0@lemmy.world avatar

Should we be concerned ?

NeilBru,
@NeilBru@lemmy.world avatar

Absolutely not.

WILSOOON, do games w A Fond Farewell To Polygon, From The People Who Worked There - Aftermath

Rest in piss, i will not miss those terrible fucking articles

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