Capitalism, Socialism, and Video Games.

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Slimebeast said:

Khuutra said:

Mafoo, I'm telling you, this analogy does not work. The problem here is that you're putting down Gold as the primary measure of success in WoW. The problem this creates is two-fold:

1. While it is very much possible to obtain Gold by oneself in WoW, ventures made together tend to be much more lucrative, and the Gold-per-person-per-hour rate rises even if every person takes a smaller cut. Financially speaking, it makes the best sense to earn gold with your buddies and let the impartial system dole out the filthy lucre.

How could this be an argument against WoW being capitalism?

Co-operation in itself doesn't have anything to do with socialism, forced co-op and forced division of wealth has, but none of that is in yor example.

If a bunch of strong individuals decide from their free will to co-operate and make a lot of money and wealth, then that is indeed pure capitalism.

I kind of see what you're trying to say here. 

However, you do realize you've just described unionism, or if not to that extent, an association which touches base with socialism.

Either way, the Topic, is interesting for the fact that it tries to compare complicated economic systems to a very simplistic game (WOW).