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Mead posted...

Dude we have had tons of socialist programs in the US for decades and the news pundits never shut up about how great the economy is booming along. You have no idea what you are talking about.

Capitalism cannot exist without limits because endless growth is in no way sustainable and it eventually becomes detrimental to the populace the system is intended to serve.

Mmmm... Not true. Like, none of that is true. Capitalism requires competition to sustain itself. The issue with capitalism comes not from some hypothetical 'limit' but, rather, the monopoly, government, or other such restrictions that end up stifling said competition.

For example, World of Warcraft is an exceedingly OLD MMO. However it's still considered the king. Why? Because anyone can make an MMO and, thusly, WoW needs to keep releasing new content and games in order to compete. When games come along like FFXIV that can pose a serious threat to WoW it's because said games offer something that WoW does not. One day, likely soon, WoW will falter and a new MMO (likely XIV) will take over as the top MMO until it too one day fails. However, even despite the titans slugging it out you have ample supplies of other MMO's. Nothing is stopping people from playing things like EVE online and a game like EVE can survive successfully without concern.

However, if a monopoly would form, you'd end up with a situation similar to what's going on with games like FIFA and similar sports titles. Almost no one else even produces sports games anymore and if someone tried the copy-write laws and legal issues means that they could not utilize the real-life players. At least not easily. As a result there is no competition and they can literally release the same game every year with an updated roster. They have a captive audience in the form of sports fans whom have no choice but to play the games and, as a result, the company can enact devastating lootbox mechanics to soak and exploit players with no fear of repercussions from the fans. They aren't being capitalistic. Their monopoly has effectively killed any form of capitalism and replaced it with an unchanging and harmful monopoly.

Also, I wonder what socialist policies you seem to think have taken root in America? Don't tell me you think something like a police force falls in the same category as, say, a healthcare system owned by the government with no capability for competition.

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