Political confusion
Krajumia
22-08-2007, 17:47
I think the designers of this game forgot what a capitalist believes, and this is insulting to me as a capitalist:
We belive the governemnt should not impose us with taxes; we believe the government should control three things- Create laws, enforce laws, defend country against invasion; but, most importantly, we will not live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for the sake of ours. That means we support big business!
My nation, Krajumia, should be a capitalist paradise, not some "capitalist paradise" with a tax rate of 100% and no large business!
Get your facts straight before you make a game!
The Loyal Opposition
22-08-2007, 18:32
http://www.nationstates.net/page=faq#politics
(Game mechanics aside, if one wants to debate what a capitalist does or doesn't believe, head over to General (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=1227). There are at least a zillion threads on that and similar topics at any given moment :D )
The Most Glorious Hack
23-08-2007, 07:16
My nation, Krajumia, should be a capitalist paradise, not some "capitalist paradise" with a tax rate of 100% and no large business!So... um... pass laws that reduce taxes and allow private business?
I don't think that the point while designing the game was ever to be that serious and exact. Everything is exagerrated and extreme so all the countries are a little odd and oxymoronic.
Oh, and capitalists also believe the government has to provide infrastructure which may have played into your nation's government type.
Krajumia
24-08-2007, 02:05
Oh, and capitalists also believe the government has to provide infrastructure which may have played into your nation's government type.
Incorrect, infrastructure should be provided by private charity, but close enough.
I still think the game gets the politics confused, end topic.
Incorrect, infrastructure should be provided by private charity, but close enough.
I still think the game gets the politics confused, end topic.
So if government didn't actually do anything (like build infrastructure), why would they exist?
Remembering that the biggest corporation can be as much of a beaurocratic mess as the worst government, and can exploit workers just as well.
Also, pretty much everyone (including me) is a capitalist, so I can't see why its "insulting".
Also, pretty much everyone (including me) is a capitalist, so I can't see why its "insulting".
Oh please, Das Kapital is a pretty accurate analyzation of Capitalism. You wait, one day there will actually be a communist revolution...
Or not.
The Most Glorious Hack
24-08-2007, 06:38
More to the point, people are able to get their nations where they should be in regards to their personal political beliefs (setting aside the inherent exaggeration). Yes, it's possible to have contradictions (see: The Shambling Mounds (http://www.nationstates.net/the_shambling_mounds)), but that's because of the way the game is coded, not because Max doesn't "understand capitalism".