Came to mind because Mortal Kombat 1 is one of the greediest fighting games I’ve ever seen, with the recent announcement of a $12 Halloween fatality plus all characters + DLC adding up to $118, so I’m assuming it’s because Warner Bros/Netherrealm Studios just wants more bonus money, so I’m genuinely curious how that whole thought process came to be, and if there’s any way for society as a whole to counteract that, or is it simply built into capitalism and we’re stuck with this forever.
Edit: I didn’t buy MK1, just know people who did because I go to tournaments
End usury basically. Problem solved.
Yeah you basically just have to fix the banking system and debt, and most economic problems get solved in the long run. The problem is the people with a stranglehold on that will never let it go, and they know how valuable it is.
Isn’t usury just interest? I’ve never quite understood why the concept of interest is bad, I wish it didn’t exist, sure, but idk why it’s so “evil”.
Usury is when a lender demands more property in return than the loan itself. A house loan is not usury, because if you default on the loan you only lose the house, which is what the loan bought you. Usury is when you default on the loan and the lender demands the house and your car.
Usury is when companies engage in complicated financial schemes to take ownership of property without paying for it. This is what happened with Bethesda and Zenimax, for example. Most "intellectual property" is usurious, because a man can't sign away his labor forever, even willingly. That is slavery. If a company lends you money, and then starves out your business on purpose, and then takes your company when you default, that is usury.