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'SimCity' Isn't a Model of Reality. It's a Libertarian Toy Land

6 points| cybersoyuz | 1 year ago |wired.com | reply

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[+] marxisttemp|1 year ago|reply
The map is not the territory. Most of economics is predicated on the same sort of ideologically-motivated cherry-picking of models to justify the status quo, then trotted out ad nauseam as incontrovertible evidence that we should all give up and trust the market.
[+] wryoak|1 year ago|reply
One of Wired’s stranger takedowns
[+] gladiatr72|1 year ago|reply
what gave it away? Godzilla or King Kong? (both are in the game)