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Goddamn, finally someone says it. If I could, I'd carry you around in a big chair with a septer and orb.fine, I'll do it myself.
Nope. I'm tapping out at 13 minutes. It's just the same shit repackaged, exactly as you'd expect. All Jim's arguments are emotional ones and, (as you'd expect from Current Year Jim,) he deliberately avoids acknowledging that there are times when things like layoffs (which are always bad for the laid off) can happen for legitimate reasons, like after the completion of a major project.
- Jim hates the phrase 'life's not fair', thinks it's only used by people who life has been fair to
- Bobby Kotick, Yves Guillemot and Andrew Wilson mentioned; the holy trinity of Jim repeating himself
- Indirectly reveals the ADHD drug he's on is Amfexa, blames it for ditching his Dead Island video for this
- "When it comes to ADHD, you've really got to go with the flow" so the Amfexa isn't doing shit I guess
- The core thesis of the video is bad things shouldn't happen in the gaming industry 'because it's wrong'
- Layoffs shouldn't happen, microtransactions shouldn't exist, executives shouldn't get paid more 'because it's wrong'
- Calls gen AI 'degenerative AI' DO YOU GET IT WHY AREN'T YOU LAUGHING
- Complains about the retort 'companies exist to make money' while repeatedly acknowledging that it's true
- States 'companies exist to make money' is just a reworked 'the ends justify the means' (false)
- "Profit is the ends, the company's actions are the means." <- actual child brained argument
- New buzzphrase: "It's just business", gives example of a hitman as he's executing someone. Very sane.
I don't know if he gets to it in the last 10 minutes of the video, but the one thing Jim constantly fails to address is that video games are a hobby, not a necessity. All his ranting implies we're forced to buy these shitty games from shitty companies.
I read the transcript and even came across a gem in the comment section: "...And from society's standpoint, companies exist first and foremost to supply jobs, and secondarily, to supply a needed/desired product or service. No company that acts against that first purpose has any right to continue enjoying the protections of society's laws."
That line and the "companies exist to make money" are both equally chimp-level thinking. Companies don't fundamentally exist to make money; they exist because there's a need (or at least a perceived need) for a good or service. This applies to luxury items as well. The byproduct is making money, sure, but it's not the fundamental reason. You have to have a market, a need, a want. You have to have the ability to create in order to meet that market, need or want. There's a lot that goes into it, but hopefully I made my point. The idea that companies exist primarily to make money is way too pervasive and it's why we have corporatism now and it's a big, big fucking problem. They're giving these lunatic commies and champagne socialists an easy win here. In that regard, people like Jim do have a valid point when the CEO's only objective is to make as money as theoretically possible at the detriment of everything else. They just hand slack-jawed yokels like Jim the gun and the damned ammunition. We really need the market to correct itself (get rid of these bloated companies that are only interested in creating maximized profit). I blame colleges and universities for this mindset. Dumb ass business and marketing trades.
"Companies exist to supply jobs" is the battle-cry of the idiotic. No one ever woke up and thought, "Gee, I'd love to give a bunch of people a job. I know, I'll create a company called Ubisoft!" Companies exist because internal organization to accomplish an objective is significantly more efficient than an individual trying to do it solo. That's it. Even Sterling's beloved Karl Marx was convinced that commerce is THE driving force of the development and advancement of a society.
That's the fundamental reason every company on the planet exists. Although commerce is born from society, commerce drives society, not the other way around. Without commerce, there are no roads, no infrastructure, no modern amenities of any kind. We'd still be sleeping in a cave and throwing shit at each other. The byproduct is it brings jobs. This also applies to luxury items. For all the garbage shit that Ubisoft, Konami, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, etc., have produced and done over the years, without them, we're still powering up our Odyssey fucking with a bright white dot on our screen or maybe, just maybe, we would have slow-crawled our way to playing Combat and Math Grand Prix on the Atari by now. The advancements these companies brought have far, far exceeded the negative it brought along the way. This isn't remotely a debatable point. Don't like it? Don't buy it. It's a luxury, not a necessity. By definition, it's a market that's easily driven by the consumers and this is what fundamentally destroys Jim's repeated assertions on this topic for the past 15 years.
You don't have to engage with any of it. Andrew Wilson is bad? Don't buy his products. Problem fucking solved. Ubisoft bad? Skip. Problem solved. Game executives are horrible, horrible people? Then stop playing their games. All of Jim's entire career is centered around having a luxury problem and turning into some existential threat against humanity. That's why I brought up his Bluesky post from last week about muh transphobes and him saying they have luxury problems worrying about the tranny taking a piss in the ladies' room. Jim, your livelihood is based on it, you fucking retard.
I'm so sick of people not thinking this basic shit to a logical conclusion. End of my rant. Jim sucks and so does insomnia. I always get this when my kids' are out of school for summer lol
That line and the "companies exist to make money" are both equally chimp-level thinking. Companies don't fundamentally exist to make money; they exist because there's a need (or at least a perceived need) for a good or service. This applies to luxury items as well. The byproduct is making money, sure, but it's not the fundamental reason. You have to have a market, a need, a want. You have to have the ability to create in order to meet that market, need or want. There's a lot that goes into it, but hopefully I made my point. The idea that companies exist primarily to make money is way too pervasive and it's why we have corporatism now and it's a big, big fucking problem. They're giving these lunatic commies and champagne socialists an easy win here. In that regard, people like Jim do have a valid point when the CEO's only objective is to make as money as theoretically possible at the detriment of everything else. They just hand slack-jawed yokels like Jim the gun and the damned ammunition. We really need the market to correct itself (get rid of these bloated companies that are only interested in creating maximized profit). I blame colleges and universities for this mindset. Dumb ass business and marketing trades.
"Companies exist to supply jobs" is the battle-cry of the idiotic. No one ever woke up and thought, "Gee, I'd love to give a bunch of people a job. I know, I'll create a company called Ubisoft!" Companies exist because internal organization to accomplish an objective is significantly more efficient than an individual trying to do it solo. That's it. Even Sterling's beloved Karl Marx was convinced that commerce is THE driving force of the development and advancement of a society.
That's the fundamental reason every company on the planet exists. Although commerce is born from society, commerce drives society, not the other way around. Without commerce, there are no roads, no infrastructure, no modern amenities of any kind. We'd still be sleeping in a cave and throwing shit at each other. The byproduct is it brings jobs. This also applies to luxury items. For all the garbage shit that Ubisoft, Konami, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, etc., have produced and done over the years, without them, we're still powering up our Odyssey fucking with a bright white dot on our screen or maybe, just maybe, we would have slow-crawled our way to playing Combat and Math Grand Prix on the Atari by now. The advancements these companies brought have far, far exceeded the negative it brought along the way. This isn't remotely a debatable point. Don't like it? Don't buy it. It's a luxury, not a necessity. By definition, it's a market that's easily driven by the consumers and this is what fundamentally destroys Jim's repeated assertions on this topic for the past 15 years.
You don't have to engage with any of it. Andrew Wilson is bad? Don't buy his products. Problem fucking solved. Ubisoft bad? Skip. Problem solved. Game executives are horrible, horrible people? Then stop playing their games. All of Jim's entire career is centered around having a luxury problem and turning into some existential threat against humanity. That's why I brought up his Bluesky post from last week about muh transphobes and him saying they have luxury problems worrying about the tranny taking a piss in the ladies' room. Jim, your livelihood is based on it, you fucking retard.
I'm so sick of people not thinking this basic shit to a logical conclusion. End of my rant. Jim sucks and so does insomnia. I always get this when my kids' are out of school for summer lol
