cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/7643915

As always in capitalism, video games have largely deformed from an art form into just another means to generate profit for large corporations

  • xorEnglish
    12•1 year ago

    corruption is rife in countries

    FTFY

      • xorEnglish
        6•1 year ago

        That’s a pretty drastic statement to make without evidence

          • xorEnglish
            5•1 year ago

            Okay but the bottom 5 are all capitalist countries.

            Even if that wasn’t the case, just linking a corruption index doesn’t prove your original statement:

            corruption is more common where there’s no opportunity to make money

            Edit: since you’ve edited and added words, let me add:

            I would even go as far as to say that your evidence in fact suggests rather the opposite trend: countries where wealth is more equitably distributed have lower rates of corruption

              • xorEnglish
                7•1 year ago

                Are you aware that this is an article about how the poorly managed transition to capitalism allowed highly concentrated wealth and power, and thus corruption?

                postcommunist Europe’s economic transition and institutional vacuum provided ideal opportunities for state capture. The most attractive jobs sought by corrupt officials were associated with the privatization process, institutions that regulated business and the customs bureau

                • @[email protected]
                  5•1 year ago

                  Yeah the “postcommunist” is a very difficult word and the guy couldn’t understand the meaning. He thought that it might have something to do with the post office

          • Dr. JenkemEnglish
            3•1 year ago

            While certainly capitalist, Denmark and Sweden use the nordic model which tends to lean pretty social-democrat/welfare-state.

            Not to mention, much of bribery under capitalist states is legalized and codified. For example, I’m guessing their study didn’t consider Super-PACs as a form of corruption or bribery. Even though that’s clearly what they are.

      • Dr. JenkemEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        Lol, there’s plenty of opportunity to make money under socialism. You just have to do the labor. Under capitalism, however, there exists opportunity to derive money from other people’s surplus labor value, for example, I can pay a worker $4 to make a thing that requires $1 in supplies and sell that for $10. That difference of $5 is stolen surplus value from the laborer. Socialists seek to abolish this parasitic relationship.