the antagonists of stardew valley are joja, and the protagonists are you and (arguably) pierre, two small business owners. which are still capitalists (owners of capital), even tho they work.
stardew valley is a game which criticizes big capital (it shows how it alienates you from work, both in the beginning and with the villagers who work there, selling the town over to joja closes the community center definitively, they threaten to make pierre’s go out of business, their shitty products are polluting the water…), but also celebrates small capital with great naivety (you as the small business owner are responsible for repairing many things around town, including especially the community center, and you, pierre and harvey as small business owners are never criticized by the game in the same way joja is)
which is fine, it’s a game, it’s meant to be fun, of course the player has the most agency. it probably wouldn’t be as fun if you were a proletarian farm worker with little-to-no agency.
but that doesn’t make it anti-capitalist. stardew valley is a libertarian-right game, it’s the game that says “the problem isn’t capitalism, it’s corporatism!”
you’re conflating capitalism with a market economy, and implying anything with the latter is an example of the former. that’s not only incorrect, but reductive.
Dude. The protag owns a farm outright lol. A huge fucking farm. That is capital.
That is not personal property, that isn’t land the community allocates to them so long as they turn it to productive ends. You own a farm outright, soley, and all proceeds from it are yours to do with entirely as you wish.
You are conflating means of production and the way of distributing products.
I think he might be fond of Stardew Valley as well, with its anti-capitalist themes and focus on community solidarity.
stardew valley isn’t anti-capitalist tho, it’s in fact very pro-capitalist, just pro small business instead of big ones
you quite obviously have no idea of the difference between a capitalist and a working class person.
the antagonists of stardew valley are joja, and the protagonists are you and (arguably) pierre, two small business owners. which are still capitalists (owners of capital), even tho they work.
stardew valley is a game which criticizes big capital (it shows how it alienates you from work, both in the beginning and with the villagers who work there, selling the town over to joja closes the community center definitively, they threaten to make pierre’s go out of business, their shitty products are polluting the water…), but also celebrates small capital with great naivety (you as the small business owner are responsible for repairing many things around town, including especially the community center, and you, pierre and harvey as small business owners are never criticized by the game in the same way joja is)
which is fine, it’s a game, it’s meant to be fun, of course the player has the most agency. it probably wouldn’t be as fun if you were a proletarian farm worker with little-to-no agency.
but that doesn’t make it anti-capitalist. stardew valley is a libertarian-right game, it’s the game that says “the problem isn’t capitalism, it’s corporatism!”
you’re conflating capitalism with a market economy, and implying anything with the latter is an example of the former. that’s not only incorrect, but reductive.
Dude. The protag owns a farm outright lol. A huge fucking farm. That is capital.
That is not personal property, that isn’t land the community allocates to them so long as they turn it to productive ends. You own a farm outright, soley, and all proceeds from it are yours to do with entirely as you wish.
You are conflating means of production and the way of distributing products.
Couldn’t the farm be considered personal property since it’s small enough to be farmed by the player alone?
And in multiplayer, the profits from the farm can either be in one collective pile, or split evenly, making it more of a worker owned cooperative.
No, it’s a means of production.
At what size do you reckon it would be personal?
What are you even defining as capital? who’s definition are you using?