A problem I've noticed with convincing other people about socialism...

A problem I've noticed with convincing other people about socialism, is that a lot of them are worried about having to give up certain luxury goods that are brand specific.
It may seem petty, but someone I'm friends with has concerns that his favorite companies, like Nintendo, would be forced to restructure or cease to exist.
It's not my biggest worry, so I haven't really thought of it. I know it's not impossible to keep companies while changing the mode of production, but I can't guarantee that will happen in every instance. Part of me believes that people who care that much may be a lost cause.
Anyone else encounter this?

Tell them that socialism is indeed the philosophy of poverty and to join the anarchist/mutualists

How would anarchist solve this?
They would have to restructure companies as well, wouldn't they?

We could reach full automation of products needed to satisfy the biological minimum within years and on a global scale if we as a society were willing to make such sacrifice

We can already automate the production of food and we ceirtainly could make the system self-replicating, reparing and transporting if we poured the resources necessary, we can also mantain a stable population level with modern medicine, we wouldnt even need a revolution, we just need to take one are at a time

After we accomplish this, there would be literally no reason to work, nintendo makes vydia not because they like it, but because it is profitable, so all they make was to be marketable, they have to follow the bourgeoisie market, which degrades the true meaning behind each game, character, story and so on

People who say automation is impossible are short-sigjted, for example we already have full automation on air purification, automation doesnt have to be 100% artificial, this gives even greater opportunities

All we have to do is abolish all spooks, nations, ideologies, religions and so onlater on they can reemerge not as exploitative concepts but as true heritage

Forgot to add, u like socialists, anarchists understand that all of this can be done through cooperative firms and mutual banks, not via repressive states

put it this way OP, if your friend sees having an iphone as more important than feeding and clothing the homeless, then he's a fuckin' liberal and decidedly counterrevolutionary.

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How many more times are you going to keep saying this? As long as the market and firms exist, production will continue to be based on competition and the consequent rise to the bottom for whichever firm is willing to exploit itself the most.

Ill stop when you manage to formulate a system that actually does away with production for exchange, one in which the worker is not exploited by the central plan production quotas and isnt primitive self-consumptio or utopian full automation

Go ahead, prove what you preach, but rememeber, the worker having to follow planned production, even in the decentralized form is exploitation

smelly
dumb
consumerist herd

They are slaves to entertainment. Yes, the societal change will be radical. A lot of people really don't appreciate how different society will be. But two things. 1 - the need for entertainment will not be as desperate as our miserable society and 2 - humans have lived without this shit for centuries and the majority still do today.
Its a very selfish mentality.

It's indoctrination and is an argument for re-education.

Consumerism is the inherent enemy of art. Anyone who is dependent and enslaved by shitty consumerism culture will never want to break his chains.

Tell your friends to read Adorno's and Horkheimer's "The Culture Industry"

Those morons can cry me a fucking river. Even making this a valid "concern" is irrelevant considering how positively art would be affected in a socialist society. If they could see that they wouldn't need "nintendo" or "valve" or whoever.
Besides, they are AAA shitters and indies wouldnt need to restructure!

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I think that part of you is correct.
As long as they care more about vidya than the econimic realities of capitalism, they will never join our cause. The strategy must be to make these nimrods care less about their game companies. Exorcise them of their spooks. First step would maybe be to show them why they care, and why that makes them silly.

or burn their house down and hope the traumatic experience helps them evolve.

MORE LIKE ZE POVERTY OF PHILOSOPHY

all of the creative people in Nintendo are being subjugated to yearly franchise releases and shitty console restrictions. everything your friend likes about Nintendo games would get better under socialism, and all the bullshit for-profit stuff would end. also, copyright would be eliminated, so anyone could make games with Nintendo characters.

Well I feel that way sometimes too

Honestly as a white man sometimes I wonder what's in it for me really.

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wot

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Brands are a way to siphon value off the consumers.

Tell him to get the corporate-sponsored brand name dick out of his throat.

you are an embarassment

forgot to drop shitposting flag

You won't get people to give up smartphones to help dark skinned people. Stop trying. Create FALC in the west, then you can siphon off the fat to achieve all that.

Some will get FALC first.

YOU LOOK AT KONAMI, SEGA, AND ALL THE OTHER BIG SHITS! YOU BET YOUR FUCKING ASS THAT THE CURRENT PATH WE'RE GOING THROUGH HAS OR WILL TURN THESE COMPANIES INTO MONEY GRUBBING WHORES TO THE POINT THEY MIGHT AS WELL NOT EXIST!!! YOU WANT TO NITENDO TO EXIST AND SUCK CORPORATE AND CAPITAL'S DICK UNTIL THEY BECOME BANKRUPT OR DEAD! THEY'RE ALIVE YEAH THEY ARE ALIVE ALLRIGHT YOU LITTLE SHIT. AND WHAT OF PASSION PROJECTS WHICH ARE SHOT DOWN OR DEEMED NOT AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF THESE SAME COMPANIES!! KILL YOURSELF.

Tell him in socialism we will have less cash grabs like super mario reskin 3 and more like wind waker.

if we get out of capitalism, people will make game because they like to make/play good games instead of using marketing to sell you shit games & advanced psychology to trick you into spending more monies on f2p shit.
fuck any kind of brand loyalty