Phil Spencer blames capitalism for being bad at his job
(www.pcgamer.com)
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This is an argument, and in my opinion a fallacy, they constantly perpetuate to call out capitalism. It's part of what's broken with the stock market too, and he's not wrong they will be unhappy with him along with driving his stock price way down if he doesn't present growth. The thing is, a continuous flow of steady profit, without growth, is still healthy capitalism (excluding adjusting the not-growth for rampant inflation). If you make a game that every year makes a $10M profit consistently every year, that should be celebrated as success. The commies just don't want to look at that because they only listed to wall street talking heads and speculators screaming for growth, growth, growth, as what is and only is capitalism.
Regarding Xbox though, can they even make consistently profiting games? The proportion of total gamers : those playing Microsoft games is what's really broken. How about just making some fun games without preaching a ridiculous message, and see where that gets you.
Infinite growth is a sort of ponzi-nomics that funnels stock cycles, and the bizarre idea that you can forecast your company's profits for the next 5 years with total accuracy. Everything in the market is based on this idea that it is predictable when every single person involved knows it is not. So when the unpredictable happens, suddenly the government gets called in to change reality to match their projections.
If we actually lived in a pure capitalist system, then Xbox Games That Has Never Shown a Profit wouldn't exist.
Oh, dear we are in the planned economy of the ccp, it was just hidden by a extra layer of words, haha