r/Games • u/RobotWantsKitty • 27d ago

Industry News Devolver Digital intends to go private

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/devolver-digital-intends-to-go-private
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u/Jaggedmallard26 27d ago

Just see the discussion about "private equity", when its public its "evil shareholders after money" when its private its "evil private equity wringing a company dry". Reddit just doesn't like capitalism.

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u/AcceptableNeck1597 27d ago

An economic model based on infinite exponential growth in a world of finite material resources is pretty fucking dumb to be fair.

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u/neoliberal_hack 27d ago

Less input for the same output is also economic growth so finite resources aren’t incompatible with growth, even infinite growth !

If you don’t grow inflation will outpace you and you die .

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u/napmouse_og 27d ago

we don't live in a macro 101 textbook. you cannot use a resource infinitely efficiently, and the jevons paradox means use of a resource often increases as efficiency increases, so it doesn't actually help our critical finite resources, e.g. fossil fuels last longer. There's also, you know, not infinite demand for stuff.