Valve finally officially announces the worst kept secret, Deadlock, a shooter moba
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The goal of all software companies is to become a rent-seeking parasite. Valve accomplished this goal with the 30% cut from Steam. Same with Apple, same with Adobe.
Hell, it's not just software. John Deere installs DRM on their tractors, making it impossible to repair on your own. McDonald's makes most of their money charging rent on their franchisees. Disney vociferously defends its IP so it can keep receiving royalties from licenses.
Once you see this shit, it's everywhere.
Hell, that’s basically the goal of every industry these days, at the top. They don’t want to cure your low insulin levels, they want you to take one of their injections 3 times a day until you die. They don’t want you to own physical media of any kind, they want you subbed and auto-renewing so that your kids are paying the Netflix bill a decade after you’ve died to diabetes.
I think I heard Bret Weinstein go on about this topic well, back on JRE or somewhere like that. Rent seeking and game theory and how they’ve led to our modern shitshow