Exactly. The alternative to most companies setting prices dictated by what they can get away with charging is some kind of state involvement in setting prices, or even in production - you can imagine that in a communist state, there might be a government-run game studio, for example, and it would put out games at a certain price point calculated to be acceptable to the government’s goals and ideals.
I think this could actually work just fine, and think it’d be a great way to solve the problem of copyright. But we also shouldn’t kid ourselves: the government isn’t going to take vast amounts of money it could allocate to healthcare, transport, etc and allocate it to non-essential entertainment like video games. Look at government expenditure on the arts nowadays. So there would be fewer video games coming out in that system, and fewer opportunities for a Hollow Knight to come out of it all.
Given the current administration, bold of you to assume that they would spend a penny more than the absolute, bare minimum on healthcare, transport, etc
Hopefully it’s obvious that when I talk about a communist state or other state initiating huge state-run enterprises like game studios, the current US adminstration is not of much interest.
Exactly. The alternative to most companies setting prices dictated by what they can get away with charging is some kind of state involvement in setting prices, or even in production - you can imagine that in a communist state, there might be a government-run game studio, for example, and it would put out games at a certain price point calculated to be acceptable to the government’s goals and ideals.
I think this could actually work just fine, and think it’d be a great way to solve the problem of copyright. But we also shouldn’t kid ourselves: the government isn’t going to take vast amounts of money it could allocate to healthcare, transport, etc and allocate it to non-essential entertainment like video games. Look at government expenditure on the arts nowadays. So there would be fewer video games coming out in that system, and fewer opportunities for a Hollow Knight to come out of it all.
Given the current administration, bold of you to assume that they would spend a penny more than the absolute, bare minimum on healthcare, transport, etc
Hopefully it’s obvious that when I talk about a communist state or other state initiating huge state-run enterprises like game studios, the current US adminstration is not of much interest.