Reading about it actually makes me think id like it better but I would have to play the variant that removes the linear stat increases so low-level enemies arent trivial.

What a horrible day to have eyes

Tbf we should always aim for slight inflation. You want to incentivize people to use their money on things so it circulates, and it being slightly depreciating is the best way to do that.

If it was the best option long term to just stuff money into a mattress and sit on it for a decade then that has it’s own problems

I feel like the rise of live service games and rogue-likes that are based around incremental progression definitely shifted the status quo to everyone having like 1 game, maybe 2, where they spend most of their time. Every game seems to demand you commit more and more time.

The only exception I can think of is Paradox Grand Strategy type games (which is my secondary “main” game)

I help people alot, and I actually had to cut my mother off because she essentially pissed away $48k I gave for her financial stability over the course of 2 years via Amazon and TikTok shop. My father also owes me $5k dollars of stolen labor when I barely got out of the military and had nothing. (He used the money from my work to pay off other people he owed money)

Some people are deadweight and having to take care of themselves is not a bad thing. People like that have children with the same beliefs that are also deadweight. My brother had to have the shock of having a child that was the first person he loved so much to square away and stop being a felon.

I dont think people are worth nothing inherently, there is some inherent value in people. You should help people if you’re able but I can barely keep myself up, and I was miserable electing to support people, I could not imagine being forced to.

I think this modern techno-feudalism where everyone is a wageslave is depressing bc no one can realistically own anything while living fulfilling lives unless they inherit wealth or defraud/scam commonfolk. I dont think the issue is that people dont have the option to just have a baseline sustainable way to live without producing anything, it’s that even if you produce, you’re expected to produce even more for our corporate overlords.

Its not hard to be a net positive, its just that the view of net positive is so stupidly insane