Paradigm wrote:Not that insightful analysis has ever been your thing ...
Well I hope that is the only thing we have in common
Paradigm wrote:, but the whole "working for someone else" thing is precisely what socialism seeks to overthrow. Those Minecraft cities are just an illustration of how much effort people are willing to put into working for themselves.
Everyone works for themselves, our selfish genes have made us selfish beings, that bloke that made that impressive minecraft city did so for a
pleasure pay off, he enjoys that sort of thing, but ask him to mop a supermarket floor and he will be less enthusiastic and will want a monetary pay off if even that is enough to interest him. He/she/it might even have made some money from such an impressive creation, if he/she/it was smart, youtube videos can be leveraged for cash through 3rd party advertising likewise distributing the file that contains his/her/its "work" could also be monetised via pay per download or 3rd party advertising. So your example of an purely altrusitic working for the greater good of the brotherhood of mankind is a clear example of the exact opposite.
In contrast the bloke or bint that mops the supermarket floor doesn't do that work for fun, mopping supermarket floors is not entertainment unlike video games, they do it because they want money. No money no mopping.
mikema63 wrote:It's sticking to see right wingers laud startups and small business owners willing to work for themselves, often with little prospect of making more money than if they worked for someone else, and then turn around to scream that people would never be willing to go out and work under their own volition as it's own reward.
People want to work, I couldn't be imagine simply never working ever again. I would go insane.
I am not a right winger; I am a unique person who is not a leftard so don't put words in my mouth that you imagine some other imaginary person you have labelled as "right wing" has said. Leftards might as well all be clones all braying the same nonsense but for the rest of us you will have do deal with us as individuals not masses or classes.
This is what
I am saying: People want all sorts of things and most of those things they want to get from someone else. That someone else will want something in return, not necessarily money but money is by definition that which is most agreeable as a reward (well for sane people anyway) for reason of its near universal exchangability. Evidence that a particular person is willing to spend a massive amount of time playing video games is not evidence that you can trick me or very many other people into digging coal, data entry, changing the rubber underwear of incontinent old people, laying bricks or editing TV footage for no tangible reward.
TL;DR - Playing video games is not a job.
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