@Goronmon@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agoWhy People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Gamesaftermath.siteexternal-linkmessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up1195arrow-down10 cross-posted to: ghazi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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minus-square@drislands@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•5 months agoDon’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.
minus-square@Archelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish6•edit-25 months agoBioshock 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.
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.
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.
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