User:RD/9k/ Closed species are a microcosm of capitalism (Q12,0,92)

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Closed species are a microcosm of capitalism / Closed species are a microcosm of society / The structure of "closed species" fan circles is a limited model of how society functions under capitalism in general, by featuring visible status symbols that people compete for through labor or money and push subtle shame onto each other for only having been able to get the basic ones and not having been able to claim the best ones / Microtransactions to get rare avatars, companions, or cosmetic items are a microcosm of how real-world capitalist societies function
if you ask me, I don't think it's positively immoral to put this kind of thing in a game, like your country forms a Molecular Marxism and you're absolutely banned from making an MMO with a Chimereon upgrades store and it's all over the party platform or such, but I do think it's vaguely annoying. I think it's annoying to try to escape reality by playing a game and have thrown at you exactly what you've been trying to escape and not think about. I find it annoying that nobody is imaginative enough to find any better ways to design games.