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War? gambling and fraud.
What about selling weapons?
If we’re talking about the MIC, fraud
Fraud - absurd markups and cheating vassals.
Believe it or not, gambling.
Well, fraud under Don Tzupid. Or just evil.
Except when it’s fraud.
Most video games aren’t gambling …
Are you implying there might be some fraud?
The games that generate the most profit are.
The rest are art.
Art sales are used to legitimatize money transfers for fraud. So fraud.
Pretty sure that’s a very small fraction of all art.
And art doesn’t make money.
Gambling does.
Arguably it is, just not in the conventional way. As a player, you’re spending your time (and money to buy the game) with the hope of winning some dopamine from it. As a developer/studio, you’re gambling time and money to devrlop a game in the hopes that it does well and makes the money back
It’s about loot boxes and the like
By that metric, any business endeavor is gambling.
I think that’s the joke
Unless its fraud
Lmao that is not what anyone means when they say gambling and you know it.
By that logic, all entertainment is gambling. Petting a cat is gambling. Hiking is gambling. You’re gambling by replying in this thread.
i think the meme creator was probably talking about the prevalence of lootboxes and skin gambling with that
Professional sports look like gambling but are actually fraud.
Prostitution? Gambling.
Exotic dancing? Fraud.
Dealing street drugs? Gambling.
Marketing pharmaceutical? Fraud.
And when it comes to actual material productive industries, I always say we have two: killing people and burning oil.
Automobiles? Burning oil
Aviation? Mostly military planes, so both
Polymers and petrochemicals? Burning oil
Weapons manufacturing? Killing people
Construction? Ultimately, since the roads and bridges are all car-focused, burning oil.
Steel? Seems good at first, but it’s ultimately going to be turned into a car (burning oil) or a weapon (killing people).
The cherry on top is that, because of climate change, all of the “burning oil” bits are also secretly killing people.
Burning oil is just the kickflip-onto-rakes version of killing people.
Gnarly
Car would also counts as killing people, particularly the oversize monstrosities produced in the US.
Derivatives?
Derivatives is a blanket term that refers to a variety of complex financial “bets” that are available to “sophisticated investors”. It’s worth knowing that the derivatives market is many times bigger than the value of all the stocks in the stock market, ~$850 trillion with a T. This definitely won’t cause any systemic issues like it did last time
Thank you!
Of course!
