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Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games (aftermath.site)
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[–] Archelon@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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.