this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2024
1 points (100.0% liked)

Memes

45195 readers
1754 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 8 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Communists shaking and crying right now.

Capitalism is a very common/popular tag for games on Steam. Of course, it's a fantasy version of capitalism where you can actually get ahead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

These games are tagged capitalism, but they use this wild version of capitalism where the person doing the work gets to keep the value their work creates. I think there's a name for that...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The fun thing most of these games aren't even truly capitalist. City builders like Cities Skylines, Tropico and Anno have little or no free market and you're just in control of a centralized planned economy.

The only truly capitalist games I saw on that list are X4 and Offworld Trading Company since you play as a single private owner competing with others on the market.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Cities skylines is definitely a capitalist economy as you literally make your earnings by changing tax rate and the only thing you control insofar as unmodded goes is zoning and city services lmao

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Its not capitalist, its a planned economy. Taxes can exist outside of capitalism

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

This just in: America not capitalist. You have exactly as much control as the average American town/city does in that game. Control of zoning and road development isn't a "planned economy" lmaoo. The entire game is based in and around a capitalistic society and the demand created by said society in your town for it to grow that's the whole reason for the demand bars.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Buy Kapital and Soviet Republic en masse

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Seize the means of unproductivity.