Dreagon wrote on Aug 23, 2024, 09:10:
Beamer wrote on Aug 23, 2024, 07:24:
Nearly every vault features some horrible experiment run by a corporation, but sure, no criticisms of capitalism to be found
Vault Tek definitely represents corporate bad guys, but then you also have the existence of the Enclave. Those guys come right out of a deep state fantasy. So if there are any critiques, they seem to be spread around.
Oh, absolutely. It's not solely a critique on capitalism, but the critiques on capitalism are absolutely prevalent, blunt and biting. It's where the most effort is put in, at least from 2 onward.
Tim seems annoyed that the TV show was so aimed at capitalism, but so have most of the games. It's an easy target, too, unless everyone here thinks they're making the right amount of money relative to their CEO, that their wages have risen at an appropriate amount relative to their company's profits, and that the government is giving their interests as much attention as corporations