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I, too, have only signed one petition.

what's up with video games?

@jwildeboer #Boosting as I am not a resident of the EU (although I wish I was)

@jwildeboer I signed one of them. The one that's actually important.

@jwildeboer wow, this needs to be boosted!!!

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I'm boosting this daily.

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The whole thing about the games is about an extractive/exploitative, capitalistic system that underlies this. Which is essentially also the source of all this richness that should be taxed.

So, maybe don't bother to much about symptom management, but tackle the source of the problem: mega capitalism.

@jwildeboer is there another place where there is more details about the 'tax the rich' petition? Like what the definition of 'great wealth' is and what exactly it would be used for? That abstract is quite vague

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net Hey I signed the "Tax the Rich" initiative as soon as it was out!

I like the videogames one but honestly I don't care that much.

@jwildeboer apparently I have already supported both and can't do so again 🤷‍♀️

@jwildeboer very good approach. We should share them together. I'm very sure people who would sign one would also sign the other.

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Thanks for informing me about two very important initiatives.

Germany has already reached its threshold but I guess one more can't hurt.

@jwildeboer I think this doesn't prove that gamers don't care about taxing the rich, it just shows that gamers are better connected and shared that specific petition and might have not heard about the other one.

@jwildeboer Don't think the shaming regarding priorities is going to change the minds of those you want to reach. Both are important in different ways and there's a good chance awareness of one doesn't mean awareness of the other.

@jwildeboer Eh, we've had the same in Poland. Autocratic government taking over the police force, replacing the constitutional court? Mhm, sounds bad.

A radio DJ who led the charts for 35 years gets fired for not removing a song criticizing the party's boss (and I think it made 2nd place)? Outrage!

Many systemic changes seem too highlevel to most people.

@jwildeboer I don't think gamers have shame, so shaming them doesn't work.

Plus you have a big YouTuber push right now for this video game law.

Instead hating on the game, pun intended, get as organized as us nerds in our basements fighting corporations destroying our favorite hobby and entertainment and also technically stealing from it's customers.

@jwildeboer Thanks, didn’t know about the second one. ✍️

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Well the video game thing is at least doable.

@jwildeboer первое и правда звучит разумно.
Хотя ещё вопрос, как именно это будет сформулировано в законе и как именно большие компании это смогут интерпретировать.
И не понятно, как должны обстоять дела в случае с временным игровым контентом.

@jwildeboer the save games petition is flawed. See here for an in depth explanation https://youtu.be/ioqSvLqB46Y?si=-NOTl3HBhE5tpWtB

@jwildeboer signed both. Preservation was the primary reason me and a few buddies made #worldofwarcraft private servers Open Source and available to everyone with MaNGOS. 😊

@jwildeboer I only learned of the Tax the Rich initiative by accidentally stumbling upon it while browsing the EU site for the Stop Killing Games one.

This is not a priorities problem, but a PR problem. You can't vote for an initiative you don't know exists and clearly they haven't spread the word effectively.

@jwildeboer BTW your toot is not publicly visitable, if I visit https://chaos.social/@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net/113005206326896548 it's a 404. Just if someone tries rto share it…

It's strange as it is marked as being pubic.