Capitalism, Socialism, and Video Games.

[highwaystar101]

Good analogy Mafoo ,

As it works with what I would envision as the perfect society too with some minor adaptions to your analogy. You see I agree that the best way to run a market is free. every man for himself and try to make the best profit you have, none of this socialism malarkey. However, if we expand it past the game for my envision to the real world a bit.

In WoW you pay a monthly fee (taxes) to Blizzard (government). In return Blizzard gives you the essentials you need to be able to start in the world of Warcraft, all the aid and help you require to learn the game (education). If the game has a bug it will be fixed by Blizzard (healthcare) and if it receives a virus it will be eradicated by them (National defense).

That way wealth is spread in a capitalist manner, but everyone also has the same basic essentials to begin with from the tax that was paid.

I don't believe either extreme socialism or extreme capitalism work. You need a balance between the two, drawing form the positive aspects of both.


... As for how a socialist version of WoW would work, yeah the logistics could be sorted out easily, but it wouldn't be very fun lol.