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Like many my age, my first real career interest was in video game design. Unlike many it was because I loved reading game dev magazines and studying the walkthroughs that got passed around in the early 2000s. The ones where you knew it was going to be a good guide because they’d put the effort in to make an opening that looked
Full body nostalgia.
I’ve been fairly harsh on the UK and the US because I like focusing on what neoliberal economics does to a country. The UK under Thatcher and the US under Reagan have brought about wonderful case studies in the harsh results of late-stage-capitalism, if you know where to look and you’re wearing the right pair of glasses
But at the end of the day I still call Australia, I still call Australia, I still call Australia home. Our descent has been slower, and far more insidious for it. Famously we weren’t hit all that hard by the 2008 global financial crisis, at least not compared to all sorts of other people all around the world. Greece, for instance. What’s been advertised as slick financial policy, though, has just been a steadier hand on the Jenga tower.
Ours is no less wobbly, we’ve just kept it from falling until now.