▲ 576 ▼ Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees (www.theverge.com) submitted 2 years ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world 110 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago (1 child) I'm not sure you understand the words you're using. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 1984@lemmy.today 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) He meant that we only have capitalist gaming studios and no communist ones. But it's a flawed argument. We don't have to choose between extreme capitalism and communism. Countries can strike a balance here if they want to. But America is the most extreme capitalist country in the world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago But it's like... Wow, communist [whatever] in the capitalist country don't perform well according to capitalist metrics. Shocker. What an inane thing for them to say. Even setting aside the complete failure of free market competition, leaving small companies to choose between failure and getting bought up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 1984@lemmy.today 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) He meant that we only have capitalist gaming studios and no communist ones. But it's a flawed argument. We don't have to choose between extreme capitalism and communism. Countries can strike a balance here if they want to. But America is the most extreme capitalist country in the world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago But it's like... Wow, communist [whatever] in the capitalist country don't perform well according to capitalist metrics. Shocker. What an inane thing for them to say. Even setting aside the complete failure of free market competition, leaving small companies to choose between failure and getting bought up. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago But it's like... Wow, communist [whatever] in the capitalist country don't perform well according to capitalist metrics. Shocker. What an inane thing for them to say. Even setting aside the complete failure of free market competition, leaving small companies to choose between failure and getting bought up. permalink fedilink source parent