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I know a lot of indy game developers do their thing hoping to get rich from it. And there's nothing wrong with that. And they don't all do that. Some people just really love coding and creating, and just want to make a cool game. Nothing wrong with that, either.
But for once, I'd love to see some brilliant founder create a game studio that has some kind of poison pill clause that prevents it from ever going public or it's IP ever being purchased by a large mega-corp. And in my wettest of wet dreams, that idea becomes a meme.
Something tells me that here in the United States of Greed, such a thing is 'un-possible', legally speaking. Our whole corrupt system is set up to make half a dozen business bros get wealthier. They won't tolerate anything that jams a wrench into that machinery.
My older liberal banker brother asked me, small business owning tradesman, why I don't just go start some small community in Montana and live without the dollar, yada yada.
I laughed, he said he's serious, I said "yea, the bankers that own the feds are serious too, and they use that to control what kind of society we decide for ourselves. We don't have the freedom to choose. We have the freedom to choose but only from these two choices. We won't even allow Cuba to do that shit, still today, 60years under embargo. And they're their own country! The bankers would erase me in a heartbeat".