Grass and soy.

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

Seems like one already did…

Socialism, communism, whatever other utopian ideologies, require that people be invested and actively participating in it. The way wealth stops being funneled to the top is that people are invested (and informed enough) to stop it from happening. How that would happen in a practical sense would depend entirely on how these ideologies were implemented. Anyone who tells you it’s all just very simple and easy would be lying to you. The main factor would be active participation by the vast majority of the populace. Without that, any attempts would be doomed to failure.

Socialism and communism have a lot more in common than communism and what the soviets (and those they inspired) did.

Yes, but they can afford to debt spend for better things they end up spending less for in the long run.

Did you actually read the quote, or are you just going off the biggest text?

And continues to be in contemporary commentary.

If you ignore man-boobs, sure.

Personally I blame travel scrabble for that one.

Supposedly part of Martin’s ideas for song of ice and fire came from watching his turtles as a kid.

A joke doesn’t have to end with a punchline. Sometimes yes, anding is the best thing to do with a joke rather than just laughing and moving on.

Sorry, clearly you are far more knowledgeable about such things, despite having nothing more than I do to back it up. I apologize for contradicting your opinion on the internet, that was my bad.

Why does it have to be? It’s basically free money for them, whereas they have to make deals and curate their store front a lot more. Games take time and energy (if you don’t just want AI generated slop, at least), so to get that to market takes time. Whereas microtransaction garbage is basically hit it and quit it and generates insane amounts of money.

So youre not?

It also usually means you have a better chance of good in the future.

So not planned obsolescence, then?

Last panel, not second to last.

Then why did you ask about stopping?

“Hey HR, can I change my tax election to 0? Thanks!”

Mmm, yes, there’s totally not a glut of ever-willing shitbags more than willing to fill in (and use their predecessors death to their advantage) and do the same or worse.