There's a certain elegance that the modern AAA games industry would willingly do this to themselves in the name of absolute profits, and will be wiped from the memory of this era.

History is written by the victors, and publishers have already lost and are too dumb to realize it.

Eh, no. That would be land value tax.

Per wiki: Economists since Adam Smith and David Ricardo have advocated this tax because it does not hurt economic activity, and encourages development without subsidies., appealing to economist as diverse as Stiglitz to Friedman.

LVT is an in kind wealth tax.

Consistently amazed that Capitalism(TM) only has good characteristics and apparently no bad.

The only other thing that seems to come close is religon.

What is the saying- man with no health problems, short life. man with health problem, long life?

Most healthy-ish people aren't aware of the damage they do to their bodies until it is too late, whereas people with chronic conditions are more mindful of their health.

Especially for some careers, they aren't designed with health in mind and falls into to the same personal blame for any shortcomings instead of the system that lead them there.

I'm leery of professional practice as there has been numerous document cases of abuse by both practitioners and government. Can't say if that aspect has ended or is just more well hidden. I doubt the quest for a mind control drug has gone away.

That said, the benefits of psilocybin are well documented. I just don't trust the current regulatory environment.

Ryan Grim has made the argument Trump has done more to advance a leftist agenda than the democrats (yes yes yes, Republican lite) in the past few decades.

Trump will be a complex historical figure in that his monumental failures have changed the stagnation that defined the start of the 21st century, maybe for the better.

Of course he will still try to take credit for it as some pan-dimensional chess he was doing all along.

Euphemism as ID is essentially a passkey for access, and a further passkey to verify the ID. Not much different than the Swiss bank accounts of yore.

Which, duh, it shouldn't be centralized, and no information needs to be stored once authentication has been made the first time. Just a passkey.

My sense is that organizations do things in this manner because it is convenient and they are not liable for the costs.

Ya, I have a few official releases from that era recorded on professional walkmans.

Some studio cleanup and they sound like the times. Surprisingly good given the source.

And here comes the pedants.

Since there was an executive order issued in 2014 to the NLRB forbidding retaliation for discussing your salary, kinda implies that maybe there was some forbidding going on, no (I distinctly remember the whining)?

And why would employers demand that?

It's market manipulation that distinctly changes what your job is worth.

Fair, but there is also the asymmetry of forbidding employees from discussing their salaries or delving into the business' financials.

If it is labor for hire, then an efficient market demands every player access to data to determine price.

If not, the market must account for this asymmetry through regulation and law, and watch business whine like babies when the shoe is on the other foot.

Expecting any manner of consistency or (hold back the laughter) leadership (remember when that was the buzz from the management class?) is like wishing for for ponies. I'd settle for boring competency at this point, but here we are.

Annnd since no one seems to have a five point plan to improve things (or at least try something new), we'll keep on this trajectory until we go over the cliff or die waiting for cosmic justice.

Ya, I am finishing up a stint at a very large organization and the experience has been eye-opening at how disposable staff is, especially when the sins of management is on the line.

And knowing what I know now, I would have tried my fortune elsewhere. It's not quite Kligon promotion (I've manage to survive and I only have a modicum of social skills), but there is no doubt any continued employment isn't based on skills, aptitude, or even need but whatever astrology management is using this month.

Get it while you can, but know plan B isn't a matter of if but when.

Ya, don't really see the point beyond IP branding. I mean sure, sexier than throwing money at the homeless and watching them battle it out, but it's not like you'll be battling rad-scorpions.

Maybe it will allow someone their 15 minutes, but unless you are deciding whether to exile someone because disease, how is this Fallout?

Will be on shaky ground to copyright anything derived from AI.

Even the inference of AI is enough to send some IPs into unknown regions of law.