I played Sim City at an early age and ever since then I’ve always looked at riots and large-scale social unrest as a failure on the part of the player. IE: if you are tasked with running, managing and creating policy and housing and jobs for your citizens, and then they riot or protest, it’s because YOU fucked up.
I cannot fathom how this basic, simple “game mechanic” has been lost across such a large swath of the population.
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I played Sim City at an early age and ever since then I’ve always looked at riots and large-scale social unrest as a failure on the part of the player. IE: if you are tasked with running, managing and creating policy and housing and jobs for your citizens, and then they riot or protest, it’s because YOU fucked up.
I cannot fathom how this basic, simple “game mechanic” has been lost across such a large swath of the population.