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Title: The Big Freaking Bioshock Entry: Rapture and Republicans + Economic Systems
Post by: Sour Grapes on August 12, 2013, 01:04:41 am
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The problem with economic systems is that they exclude the "People are selfish fucking bastards" factor.

On paper, they look great.  All the factors contributing to the greater whole, and working wonderfully.

However, people are selfish fucking bastards, and if they can, they will work any and all systems to give them the economic advantage.  Hence the need for regulations.

Take, for example, the much-vaunted Free Market System.

Ideally, the free market system is supposed to be ruled by supply and demand.  When there is a higher supply, there is a lower demand, and therefore lower prices.  The reverse is true, when there is low supply, and high demand.

However...  Say it with me now:  People are fucking bastards.  People can either hoard their supply, or order their factories (even though they have the capacity) to only make a very limited stock, increasing demand, prices, and profits.

((Mind you, I was hoping to get THESE published in the Deep South, too.  Hince the Christian references.))
Title: Re: The Big Freaking Bioshock Entry: Rapture and Republicans + Economic Systems
Post by: Sour Grapes on August 14, 2013, 01:17:08 pm
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Title: Re: The Big Freaking Bioshock Entry: Rapture and Republicans + Economic Systems
Post by: Dr. Weird on August 14, 2013, 02:06:36 pm
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The problem with economic systems is that they exclude the "People are selfish fucking bastards" factor.

Yeah, that's it right there.  I'm not a gamer, so I've never played the BioShock games, but your article does illustrate well the real point, that the problem with "utopian" ideals is that humans inevitably go overboard and fuck them up.

Maybe mention that the name Andrew Ryan might be a fairly direct nod to Ayn Rand  (Heh...and Wikipedia said he was voiced by Armin "Quark" Shimmerman, another major pop culture criticism of unrestrained capitalism.  Didn't know that.)  Or is that too obvious?
Title: Re: The Big Freaking Bioshock Entry: Rapture and Republicans + Economic Systems
Post by: anti-nonsense on August 14, 2013, 04:49:24 pm
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The problem with economic systems is that they exclude the "People are selfish fucking bastards" factor.

Yeah, that's it right there.  I'm not a gamer, so I've never played the BioShock games, but your article does illustrate well the real point, that the problem with "utopian" ideals is that humans inevitably go overboard and fuck them up.

Maybe mention that the name Andrew Ryan might be a fairly direct nod to Ayn Rand  (Heh...and Wikipedia said he was voiced by Armin "Quark" Shimmerman, another major pop culture criticism of unrestrained capitalism.  Didn't know that.)  Or is that too obvious?


And the "People are stupid selfish short-sighted bastards" factor is exactly why I am not a communist. Any political system that relies on  large numbers of people being selfless and farsighted is doomed to catastrophic meltdown.