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Hi! I don’t have much time because of capitalism, but I would like to comment on some opinions…

“The video game market exists because of capitalism.”
Then “the printing press exists because of feudalism”. The main motor behind progress is human curiosity and their ability to upgrade everything (imho). I agree that capitalist maelstrom encourages progress (what kind of progress is another topic) but capitalism itself didn’t send the first human to space, neither communism if you ask me. It was the work of super-clever scientists. The same for the rest of technologies mentioned.

“you guys are supposedly game developers when as a game dev you make money by selling a game aka capitalism”
Please do not confuse capitalism with market. Markets existed before capitalism, markets will probably exist after capitalism.

“the only system which has allowed people to move up finically based on competency”
Myth of meritocracy

“What you need to show me is that Capitalism sends society into chaos and fire.”
"The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein contains a lot of examples.

“I know what you think, you think we can create another system besides capitalism and communism. Well then firstly tell me what that system is.”
Coexisting with capitalism, some flavours of socialism are working extremely well in Europe (of course, there is always a lot of room to improve). I think we should work towards two objectives:
1) A radical democracy. All democracies today are far from being perfect.
2) A 100% cooperative market economy (it seems that this is already happening, silently and slowly).
It would be a good starting point to keep improving (without dictatorships).