Games in particular, despite the massive capital investment it takes to make a "AAA game", have a pretty robust history of being intentionally made for free or of profitable products being blatant ripoffs of existing ideashttps://twitter.com/CaseyExplosion/status/1305508306933420032 …
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Like how the first "online community" was the science fiction discussion listserv on ARPAnet Which, at the scale it operated at, was obviously a massive waste of resources meant to communicate about sensitive DoD projects to instead argue about Star Wars
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But as they say, no one could rat anyone out for wasting time on it because they all were
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And this is all stuff that was because of being "insulated from capitalism", college students and federal employees with clearances being two groups of people it's very difficult to just casually fire for not spending all their time at work actually working
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