news scoop: insider account of how the statement was drafted, and the fear-based culture in Wizards offices

[The Stray]

Heh, I am Norwegian. I definitely can say "socialism". The only way socialism can work, is if it is voluntary, and people understand the costs and benefits, and willingly choose to pay the costs. Any kind of socialism can only succeed if it is truly democratic and comes from free will.

But, here in the context of Hasbro-WotC, I am talking about a corporation that itself would function as a healthy employee-empowering structure in a way that is also profitable to the success of the corporation.

LOL Ah. Okay. That makes sense, then. It sounded like you were talking about Democratic Socialism because you were.

 

[Dungeonosophy]

Back to the Original Topic:

Several D&D personas have just weighed in on the claims of youtuber DnD_Shorts.

Ben Riggs (one of the leading D&D historians). Also chiming in on that thread:
-Morrus (our own)
-Alex Kammer (one of the foremost D&D collectors in the world)

Ray Winninger (former WOTC) "This is simply false."
Taymoor (former WOTC) "this just feels like muckraking."

All of these voices are dubious about either DnD_Shorts or his source (perhaps unwittingly for DnD_Shorts), or both.

 

[Charlaquin]

I once went to a "Mongolian BBQ" restaurant with a bunch of people from the Asian Studies department of my university. The anthropologist who had just returned from field work in Mongolia took a look at the menu and then found that there was nothing Mongolian about it. But in the back of the menu there was a single page written only in Chinese, incomprehensible to most of us but not to the Chinese language professor, who told us that this was where all the really good stuff was listed. He ordered a bunch of dishes from that menu and we got the most marvelous authentically Chinese meal I've ever had.

That’s awesome! Although, I still wouldn’t exactly call it a secret menu. It’s public information, as long as you know the language, and it’s not as if Mandarin and Cantonese are secret languages.

 

[Charlaquin]

Something like that, but the business license needs to be more "agile", and able to take on unrelated products, and compete with big business.

Ultimately, the goal is "democratic capitalism", in the sense of democratic control of financial capital.

It sucks that the employees of Hasbro-WotC megacorp are at the mercy of its almost-feudal executives.

I wish there was a better kind of business license, where the employees can have a say in the decisions of the megacorp.




No. The business model would need to succeed in its own right in a consensual environment.

Maybe start off as a small local experiment and study how it behaves, competes, adapts, and prospers.

If it proves viable, nationalize and internationalize the business license.

Such a "democratic capitalist" business license is fraught with difficulties, such as employees ruining the business for shortterm liquidation of assets. A business license that works as intended would need a system of checks and balances, much like a democratic government does.

It just sounds like you’re describing syndicalism to me. Which is not a bad thing by any means, I’m very much in support of syndicalism!

 

[Dungeonosophy]

That’s awesome! Although, I still wouldn’t exactly call it a secret menu. It’s public information, as long as you know the language, and it’s not as if Mandarin and Cantonese are secret languages.

face-plant re: Original Topic.

 

[Charlaquin]

face-plant re: Original Topic.

Thread drift happens, friend. As long as it doesn’t take over the thread, a handful of off-topic posts is an expected and even healthy thing in forum discussion.

 

[The Stray]

Back to the Original Topic:

Several D&D personas have just weighed in on the claims of youtuber DnD_Shorts.

Ben Riggs (one of the leading D&D historians). Also chiming in on that thread:
-Morrus (our own)
-Alex Kammer (one of the foremost D&D collectors in the world)

Ray Winninger (former WOTC) "This is simply false."
Taymoor (former WOTC) "this just feels like muckraking."

All of these voices are dubious about either DnD_Shorts or his source (perhaps unwittingly for DnD_Shorts), or both.

DnD Shorts is addressing this now:

 

[The Stray]

long story short: He's getting conflicting information from sources he trusts, and is trying to verify.

 

[The Stray]

 

[Composer99]

I wonder if it's a misunderstanding of who "they" are who are not reading feedback?