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Justisaur  <just...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I'm no economist, but I'm not sure how in the truest sense of the phrase 
>games could create wealth.  They're consumer items.  No one *needs* 
>games to live, there's no actual anything created.  At best it's moving 
>wealth created by something else to the makers (or corporate overlords 
>of the makers) of the games.

Weath is created simply through things like one person trading something
they don't want for something they do want with someone else who is doing
the same thing.  Both parties end up being richer because they now have
something they value more than the thing they traded away.

When someone invests money in a developing game they're giving up
something of value and hoping to get something of greater value in return.
So for example when an investor spends $250,000 on wages, renting an
office and other expenses, they're hoping the result will be a game that
will generate more than $250,000 in sales.  If so then the game presumably
creates wealth.  The investor has more than the original $250,000 invested
while the people who bought the game presumably got something they valued
at least as much as what they spent. (Obviously they might end up hating
the game and regretting purchasing it, but usually that's not the case.)
If the game doesn't make $250,000 though wealth is destroyed.

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