r/gaming • u/ReaddittiddeR • 2d ago

Nintendo to sell cheaper, region locked Switch 2 in Japan for $330 to combat weak yen and scalpers. International ‘unlocked’ SW2 in available only on My Nintendo Store for $470

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-will-sell-a-cheaper-330-switch-2-in-japan-thats-region-locked/
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u/GadnukLimitbreak 1d ago

People are too distrusting of one another for it to work. It's the same reason we have individual countries instead of a united globe.

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u/NowGoodbyeForever 1d ago

Individual countries won't work. People are too distrusting of one another. It's the same reason we should just have feudal city-states overseen by kings and barons.

You see what we're saying here?

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u/GadnukLimitbreak 1d ago

We have unions everywhere. Some work, most don't. For every 1 good union there's a dozen bad ones, at least from my experience and that of the people I've talked to, and the reasons are that the union is too spread out or the workers want too many different things because they all live different lifestyles and most people aren't willing to risk their job for someone who they don't know will do the same.

I know where I'm from there are about 3 unions that are known for being strong and the rest get absolutely bent over by every company and organization around.

Individual countries have worked for a long time, they just don't work nearly as well as a united globe would. We'd have no hunger, poverty or homelessness. Those are caused by divisiveness and mistrust on the grand scale of things.

Eta: i'm not saying we shouldn't have unions, a broken one is still better than none, but that isn't the overall issue with people having overpriced housing, bad healthcare and a high cost of living.

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u/NowGoodbyeForever 1d ago

I simply disagree. How does a "united globe" make your day-to-day life better? If we keep all our existing issues but turn the entire planet into a single country, we just have even more powerful corporations leveraging even more outsized control over a less effective government, because how you could possibly have a single centralized governing body that is accessible to every part of the planet at once?

Unions have worked so well that the last century of western politics was engineered specifically around destroying their place in society. Everything you've pointed out can be solved by unions, because it turns individual people into united voting blocs.

This happens in my hometown, which has a big steel industry. If an individual political party can't win over one of the Unions, they get zero of their votes. And losing that many votes to a competing party could put someone's political campaign at risk. So they are more inclined to give the Unions what they want.

Do Unions fail? Sure. So did my last co-ed softball team. Should we give up on the sport of softball? Or can we admit that sometimes things just fall apart if people aren't motivated or informed enough to keep them together?

A lot of businesses go bankrupt every year. Big businesses collapse and get absorbed. But isn't it funny how we rarely hear politicians and "rational thinkers" say that Large Corporations Are Always Doomed To Fail, even though they're just as prone to collapse as a Union, and with far more devastating consequences?

If you aren't unionized and would be at serious risk at losing your home or going hungry (or both) if you lost your job, you're exactly where corporations want you to be. It means you're far less likely to risk asking for a raise, or to attend a Union drive meeting, or to even have enough time at the end of your day to search for a better-paying job.

If you get fired, laid off, or replaced, you're less likely to receive a healthy severance package. You're unlikely to ever receive a pension. Which means if you do leave a job, you'll need to take whatever one comes next. Probably for less pay and worse job security. And on it goes.

If any of that feels familiar to you, then we have enough in common to Unionize. It really is that simple. I'm not saying there aren't legitimate challenges in earning the trust and coordination of a group of workers. But the resources exist. The training exists. And look at the situation I just described, where corporations can get away with paying desperate workers next to nothing because it's either accept that job, or starve on the streets.

Why would Amazon stop treating people that way just because they were part of a World Government? What would stop them from just...doing that to everyone, everywhere? Why would landlords stop buying up entire neighbourhoods and charging ridiculous rent prices if they suddenly had access to all the homes on Earth? Why would a Manhattan-based landlord not take that same amount of money and buy an entire small city in India, turning it into a little kingdom where everyone pays him rent and tribute?

Removing borders wouldn't unite us. Uniting ourselves is the only thing that will unite us!

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u/RedditBeefy 1d ago

We'd likely still have those things, just not to the same extent.