Then I suppose I'm confused by your take, then, and there's no need to become aggressive about it. I'm interested in having a discussion, not being combative.
I'm really not interested in "discussing" this with you, but you typed a few paragraphs so I'll entertain this.
I found the post to be hyperbolic and reductive because video game products like the PS5 are inherently a product of capitalism, so I don't understand the purpose in blaming a system for these exploitative practices when the system you're criticizing is the entire reason the product itself exists. Sony dumped R&D and marketing into this thing to make money. Not to represent any artistic merit or positive contribution to the world's culture, but pure profit for them and theirs. Regarding your comments on gaming culture, some of the blind enthusiasm that you speak of has to be laid, at least in part, at the culture's feet. At some point it is on the individual who is refusing to say no to a marked-up product that they do not need.
Absolutely
none of this has anything to do with my original comment, which is that the scalpers are obviously abusing the system to their own ends, or rather, they are actually using the system as intended (because the purpose of capitalism is to hoard capital; kind of in the name). That would be fine, but clearly they know what they're doing is
morally contentious and can't take the criticism, hence why they put out this bullshit statement of trying to feed their families, which is even dumber in the philosophical confines of capitalism which- again- does not exist to make the world a better place. Just take your money and go home; don't try to guilt me into feeling sorry for you for being a good little capitalistic dog.
A hedge fund manager doesn't have to be a witness to your criticism for it to be reductive. Outrage is finite and must be handled with caution. Such overarching criticism on capitalism itself is better reserved for the elements that deal legitimate damage to people's wellbeing, not something as trivial as this. Wasting such criticism on scalpers of video game consoles are how so many feel the need paint left-leaning voices with titles like 'outrage culture.'
Yawn. For one, I'm not outraged. I made a flippant comment about some assholes and apparently that was enough for you to get in your feelings. Not that it matters. Even if I were angry, one's emotional state doesn't discredit one's argument. If I angrily say the sun is a star, I'm still fucking right; I don't care if some centrist or right-wing turd would stop listening to facts as a result of my anger. And ultimately, I don't care about anyone who would seriously use the term "outrage culture." I write what I want, however I want to. I'm not gonna temper my language or my opinions, especially statements as tepid as "capitalism sucks," to make people like you feel better about what anti-leftists think.
