This is just Prime Video and Apple TV. Fallout and Severance are great shows that shit on capitalism, but they’re made by two of the most capitalist companies out there.
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Yuuup. And this is why amazon and apple don’t get any of my currency units.
One of my favorites is any place selling a Che Guevara shirt
Fuckin love seeing DE references in the wild.
Incidentally, the studio behind it was also taken over by capitalists via some trickery
Which means it’s completely moral to pirate it despite it being an indie game originally. Those who made it wouldn’t get a cent if someone buys it anyway
Oh I remember! ZA/UM strong-armed the creators out of the IP so now they encourage people to pirate it. And it’s extremely easy to find!
Considering the game is available DRM-free on GOG, it should be easy to find an installer somewhere.
The founders of the company won’t get a cent, but the coders and the people who labored to create the game are still there and would benefit from it.
So if you want to be anti-capitalist, pirate it, but if you want to support the people who labored to create it, buy it.
Here’s the thing. When you pirate something, the money you would’ve paid, but didn’t, to the company would have gone to the company profits.
See that, I said profits, not employee salary, profits.
The people who made the game, were already paid, while they were making it. Unless there’s some sort of revenue share agreement, or the workers are unionized to receive compensation on exceptional performance of products, or the workers partially own the company thus receive part of the profits every year, then none of your money will go to the developers. Literally not a cent. Companies who make record profits have massive layoffs of thousands of developers, you know why? Because employment and pay are decoupled from revenue. All the money goes into pockets that had no involvement on the creation of the game. The game they are working on right now, is not being paid by the revenue, but by investors, who are gambling on the next game’s revenue. The developers will be paid or fired, regardless of how much money old games make.
So, when you pirate a game, no one goes hungry. No one runs out of healthcare. People laid off from their work will go hungry or lose their healthcare regardless of how much money the game they coded makes (some even would point out that the highest record breaking games usually come from the studios with the worst layoffs). They were already paid, there’s no more money to go from you to them in the current capitalist scheme. This is why it is always moral to pirate a game made by a mega corporation (or owned by one), it’s reclamation.
You’re too late.
Lol, I’m very curious to know why someone would buy a shirt that says “Corporate Greed”
Chaotic neutral
I dunno, feels more like lawful evil to support corporate greed lol.
Gatta play both sides, baby!
Pitchfork sales are up
Note: Hasan Piker is currently on the front page of twitch.tv which is owned by Jeff Bezos.
Be sure to check out Hasan’s line of anti-corporate greed at his personal merch store at https://ideologie.shop/
It sounds like “ideology”, so you know when you buy this merch, you’re supporting socialism or whatever!
Honestly some of the worst design I’ve seen. Looks like a pop-up store that would disappear within a week in DUMBO.
This reminds me of something I sometimes see in shows on like Netflix and other media. I can’t remember a specific example, but you often have generic anti-capitalist comments from characters (often portrayed as edgy). It often feels a bit, artificial, like a “fellow kids” moment but politically, I guess? Like activism as a prop / character trait, inserted into a multi-million media production. Maybe someone else can better put it to words, if I had more time I would’ve written a shorter comment
Some would probably call stuff like that “woke”, but maybe “performative” or “pandering” would be slightly less politically charged.
Isn’t that the basic business model of any social media corporation ?
Was just thinking about this recently. The designers Gabe Newell hired (not Gabe) were trying to tell us something with the dystopias in Half Life 2 and Portal 2.
Aren’t those the same dystopia?
I would consider the US and North Korea different dystopias despite coexisting on the same planet.
Yep. Fast fashion with rebellious and pithy anti-corporate statements printed on them.
Our local Pride Week is in August. It’s weird, but it may have something to do with corporate shenanigans if you catch my drift.
Anyway it’s fun watching some of local chuds foaming at their mouth in June and then we go “dude, we don’t do Pride in June for a reason”.
This type of stuff is immediately what I thought of too. They will happily sell both sides’ identity and values right back to them.
Obligatory Bill Hicks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h9wStdPkQY
I’m happy to see someone else thought this.
Same here. Jumped in to the thread to post it if not.
I mean… Reddit…
Supreme called. It’s in this picture and it doesn’t like it.
“I’ve got it sir! We make dollar sign cereal and our tagline can be Eat the Rich! They’ll eat it up, literally!”
