• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    10 hours ago

    What I love about those video games is that they teach us very clearly that a command economy leads to prosperity (unless you suck as a player I guess), but then billionaires tell us no, free market capitalism and trickle-down are the way we have to go.

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      7 hours ago

      Funny, because it taught me that that task in reality is impossible, given real nations can’t load an old save file to fix their fuck ups in a simulation far, far simpler than reality.

      Of course you could certainly argue that one person wouldn’t be in charge of doing literally everything.

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        4 hours ago

        with the resources of a real command economy, you could find the best player in the nation and put them at the wheel

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      9 hours ago

      I’ve had similar thoughts about the auction house in World of Warcraft. Since the game caps the amount of gold you can have at a small fraction of the overall economy, no one person can buy everything and then jack up the prices.