Michael

Well considering that I live in a rural area where warehouses (Amazon or otherwise) are literally the only jobs that pay much of anything outside of trades and the medical industry, I think they do have a choice.

It isn’t a fair choice and again, we agree there. But this example I can relate with personally.

I am somebody who has an option to be employed by Amazon, I am in need of funds, but I am sickly and I won’t contribute to an out-of-control system. I feel like doing so would accelerate my illness.

I feel like people with warehouse jobs are better off than me by a large margin, even if they are functionally trapped. I recognize the struggle. Truly.

I still choose to tread my own path. My path has been filled with thorns that even the people closest to me struggle to believe. I was raped and tortured repeatedly for around 2 years by a family member two years younger than me. That’s the tip of the iceberg. I have experienced so many tough situations that no adult intervened in or believed me about.

I am moving forward and the thorns aren’t going to prick me, because my heart is stronger and so is my will.

Are you this harsh with food and hardware from companies?

Selective would be a better word.

I just buy different things or shop at companies that are doing things differently. I love it when companies I support make significant progress to be better for themselves, for their customers, and for humanity as a whole.

(And yes, I am aware of greenwashing and it still bothers me to support some companies, regardless of the good that I recognize that they do.)

Are you selective about the chocolate you consume? I am. I don’t support child slavery.

Funnily enough, the workers of the megacorps you mentioned likely have more choice than most to tread their own path. They very likely have significant financial reserves (at least compared to a poor and sickly person like me).

When there is a mass exodus of NVIDIA/etc. workers, I will be chipping in to support them directly.

I am read up. Krafton has shown their bad faith and has not sufficiently given me reason to believe that they will change moving forward.

If I started a business and had to give up 100% of my business to keep it afloat, I’d recognize that I messed up and move on.

If you like the product, go buy it. Help them reach the milestone.

I am speaking for myself. I know it’s a good product, but I have a policy to not support early access titles unless they meet specific criteria.

I have been burned far too many times with early access titles that stay in limbo or don’t deliver on release, especially by studios under hostile publishers (who are very greedy).

I am poor and my health isn’t very good, so I feel it’s imperative that I make good decisions with my limited resources.

Subnautica 2 isn’t a bad product in its current state and it will likely release in an even better state, but I feel the whole thing is tainted for me.

Questions like, “What if Unknown Worlds stayed independent?”, or, “What if Krafton were more ethical?”, would ring through my mind constantly while playing. I wouldn’t be able to enjoy the experience.

With some exceptions, we all have a choice in the first-world. Chains can be external and internal. In your example, the chains are mostly internal even if there is some degree of external chains. If you’re living in SF and are a game developer, chances are you aren’t doing terribly.

As for exploited and poor third-world countries or those who lack citizenship in first-world countries (i.e. undocumented immigrants), I’m inclined to say that is modern slavery. It sometimes literally is slavery, even child slavery.

Here in the first-world, we presently benefit from child slavery and third-world exploitation in the products we consume. It’s not uncommon either.

I believe people have to choose differently if they want different. Be the change you seek, that whole jazz.

Well, we agree.

As for myself? I chose to not be a slave and I’m sticking with that.

You can hate mega corporations, CEOs and board members

I don’t agree with their decision to move forward with Krafton. They obviously wouldn’t retain sovereignty by letting a publisher buy them completely out for $500 million. What transpired after the acquisition was something anybody with business sense could’ve foreseen to some degree.

but most of the lower lever employees are not there by choice.

This is a design lead speaking as far as I know. All employees are there by choice - even if it’s not their first choice, it’s their choice…as much as it pains me to admit (as somebody who isn’t a fan of the exploitation dynamics that run our society).

It’s a good thing then that countries that have this sort of nudity legal don’t start becoming nudist colonies just because you can legally be topless or nude.

Fair, then don’t go to spaces where people are naked or look at people who are legally naked. You do you.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/nude-beaches-world-map

European countries do generally allow nude sunbathing and have bathing culture. I wasn’t just talking about Japan.

I can’t attest to the accuracy of the map, but it has to be at least somewhat accurate. I don’t think it’s correct on Japan, as you say. Take it with a grain of salt.

Japan is prudish and repressed in many ways, sure, but they do see the practicality of being nude when you have a reason to be nude (e.g. bathing). Hot springs are a social activity and generally individuals are very comfortable (at least) with being nude with the same sex.

Oh, and there is weight-based shaming and other forms of discrimination/racism there. There are issues and it’s fair to point them out.

Krafton won’t be getting my money. I’m not rewarding them for their unethical behavior.

“Thanks for pirating a game that I’ve spent years working on,” game design lead Anthony Gallegos replied to one such self-reported pirate. “I’m disappointed that you’d do that when it’s kind of how we make our living. I hope you rethink your life choices.”

Thanks for working for a studio that sold their soul to a foreign publisher for $500 million and a $250 million bonus.

(And no, I’m not pirating the game.)

That’s sexual though. When I said, “have no problem or less problems with nudity”, I meant non-sexual nudity.

They almost certainly have less problems with non-sexual nudity. There is discrimination against tattoos, for example. I’m unsure how being transgender would work, but I’d imagine that is another area of discrimination and exclusion.

People seem to be culturally conditioned to see any form of nudity as inherently sexual or perverted. It’s not inherently sexual.

I’m aware of at least a few European countries and countries like Japan that have no problem or less problems with nudity compared to the US.

Bathing culture/having public baths or communal showers opens the door to people relaxing about the human body.

Communal/non-sexual nudity really isn’t a big deal.

Hey, don’t slander us Solarpunks ツ