• axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    Capitalists are in competition with one another to maintain their position, which means they simply can't have steady profits. Unless they're selling something niche that will always exist, from day 1 they're on a shrinking treadmill with other capitalists in their industry praying for their failure.

    They only have class solitary among one themselves when it comes to keeping capitalism around or keeping labor cheap.

    Video game studios are in another bucket of worms where it turns out the most profit comes from selling garbage on a subscription model, or just taking a percentage of what other developers make (such as what Valve, Epic, Nintendo, Sony, etc all do).

    Companies that make a steady, tiny profit are gonna be bought out or their workers will find somewhere else that promises more long-term stability. Look at the tragedy of what happened to Raven Software and Treyarch, forever doomed to work in the CoD mines.