Mainly just asking you guys, but here’s my take:

Capitalism:

  • An economic system in which individuals privately own the buildings that produces stuff and services.
  • Their form of democracy is a “democracy of the minority” at best, and at worst, is a dictatorship disguising itself as a democracy. Has that illusion of choice shit going on for the majority class.
  • Can’t get rid of the top man “running the place” due to him/her owning the deed of the building. Sad, can we get an F in the chat for the workers having their labor exploited by this POS.

Socialism:

  • An economic in which the workers who do the shit for the business run the building that provide goods and services.
  • Their form of democracy is real democracy. In which that the majority class, actually have an impact on what they want in society. The minority somewhat gets to live, but not without a gun on the head and a sign next to it saying: “we will not hesitate to shoot you if you give in to your hedonistic greed the profit motive.”
  • Can get rid of the person just sitting their and owning the deed to the building, the least harmful method is via democratic vote and choice on who gets to lead the operation, or if the deed owner ain’t gonna give up his title of “leader” well, we shoot the guy if he/she reacts with malicious violence.
  • @Shaggy0291@lemmygrad.ml
    3•1 year ago

    Limbic System: All the rich apes and all the poor apes are dukin’ it out on this ball. You’re one of them. It’s basically all just apes dukin’ it out on a giant ball.

    You: How big is the ball?

    Limbic System: You can’t even make out that it’s a ball, when you’re dukin’ it out. It’s that large.

    You: How small are the apes?

    Limbic System: Infinitesimally small.

    You: And what is this “dukin’ it out” I keep hearing about?

    Limbic System: Vying for resources? It’s just a stupid expression you picked up somewhere. The part of the presentation you want to take home is this: you have to beat the rich apes in the face or you lose.

    • @NothingButBits@lemmygrad.ml
      22•1 year ago

      I always thought Paradox was a reactionary company. Especially after looking at the abhorrent HoI4 community. This seems like a nice change of pace.

      • @Kind_Stone@lemmygrad.ml
        28•1 year ago

        Why look at community when you can look at the games themselves?

        Look at HoI4 DLC about USSR, whatever it was called. It literally has “Stalin’s paranoia” mechanic where he goes more insane over time and starts doing random weird shit just because.

        • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
          24•1 year ago

          Fucking shit, are they trots or what? The trailer was good.

          On a side note, there 's this “Spectre of Communism” game with cool animated steam avatars of Stalin, Molotov, Rokossovski, etc. But the first cutscene was vomit inducing.

          • @Kind_Stone@lemmygrad.ml
            17•1 year ago

            …at the same time, before that DLC if you never did Stalin’s purges an actual trot counter-revolution occurred and you could get Trotsky himself returning from Mexico. They are sending mixed signals, but you know… No doubts about them being overall shit.