Sadly, the author faceplants in his opening paragraph: > The default of many games is capitalist. Money, and the accumulation of it, is often core to a game’s

Sadly, the author faceplants in his opening paragraph: > The default of many games is capitalist. Money, and the accumulation of it, is often core to a game’s mechanic. Money is not capital - the explicit goal of PokeMon is to accumulate the monsters that earn you status, money, etc. in furtherance of more accumulation. So I don't disagree with the premise, but money's almost never the ultimate goal in simulators.