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Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games (aftermath.site)
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[–] drislands@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Capitalist utopia? Isn't the whole point that it's a Libertarian utopia?

[–] HiT3k@midwest.social 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Are you unfamiliar with capitalism as a theory? Or Ayn Rand? Yes, capitalist utopia. That's the entire libertarian ethos. Libertarianism is a political framework for governance, pure capitalism is its economic policy.

[–] drislands@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Don't get me wrong, the only Libertarianism I've ever known is intertwined with Capitalism. But they aren't the same thing, and I always read BioShock as being a take on Libertarianism specifically.

[–] Archelon@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Bioshock is most specifically about Randian objectivism, which promotes a version of extreme laissez-faire capitalism, not libertarianism in general.

And I think that’s the most economic philosophy buzzwords I’ve put in a sentence before.