Taxes and penalties are completely different use cases than product pricing. So, a grocery store should post many prices for different income brackets? Maybe we could have a QR code you scan to run a function against your last year’s tax return to establish a price? Oh, now Walmart got “too much money” because Bill…

So things should cost more depending on the buyers wealth?

Of course not every game needs to be a AAA title. It turns out there are plenty of non-AAA games, maybe more than ever, that will continue to go for much less than $70. So there are options for everyone. If $70 is too high, these games won't sell well, money instead goes to cool stuff like the Lamb Cult game or The…

I’ve been so conditioned by now by evil people to immediately think this is a scam. “Biggest giveaway ever! Why is nobody talking about out?!”

You’d get much higher returns elsewhere. However, of you are wealthy enough all this is pocket change anyways... Or someone moved the money into a more liquid form because they were going to an art show where they expected to spend a few million on art.

Public companies’ incentive structure definitely have a problem with being too skewed to short-term gains and potential for majority shareholders being able to plunder the place. In fact not all stock exchanges allow companies with such ownership structure.

And efficiency becomes generally worse and worse as companies get larger and even more so after IPO.

Did the Franco regime interfere with the economic model?

Yep, the Mondragon collective has been incredibly successful. All under communism by structuring their org differently and favoring equality. The nice thing is that capitalism allows for that. If the collective stops being effective, it will go out of business without any central committee recognizing and deciding…

I dunno. I clicked on this article and I keep going back to Twitter where 50% off me feed now is Elon crap

I think we are giving ourselves collective mental disorders by paying to much attention to some guy

Read the actual tweets, they are quite different from how it’s being presented here. Hotz talked about a work culture focused on getting cool shit done, not “indentured servitude”. I don't like Hotz very much, but I have no doubt that he always gives 110% and that's fun to him. He doesn't need money so why not have…

Of course the article leaves all the details out because that’s what the G/O leadership has done to the best gaming website.

While I'm not a fan of the people involved here this doesn't do the description justice. Hotz actually is an accomplishment developer outside of the hack you know him for. He's least a self-driving car company. This isn't an internship because her is inexperienced. This came out of Twitter banter where he praised the…

Are there any franchises that Konami is treating well?

The work he did at SpaceX is actually truly amazing. Sure a lot of the work was done by others, but he is the one who set the vision. He also conceived the whole thing by sucking up all knowledge about rocket design and challenging the status quo. He actually was pretty hands-on initially (he still might be; I dunno).…

New leadership that pushes this shit needs to get fired and move Uber a freeway bridge. They destroy everything that made Kotaku great. No blame to anyone actually working at Kotaku directly. I'm sure it's all pressure from G/O Media execs.

Maybe we've paid very different jRPGs, but I don't think I've ever encountered anything fitting that bill. Closest might be the Walmarket sequence in FFVII

I wish the loot system worked entirely different or wouldn't exist in The Last of Us. It totally breaks immersion. I'm so focused on systemically searching every nook and cranny which feels like something that wouldn't happen in reality. I'm also always worried about accidentally triggering a cut scene after which I…

Because the Nazis killed all the people of Arab or African descent? AFAIK, he Nazis killed Jews, LBTQ folks and Sinti and Roma. Don't those groups typically have pretty fair skin?