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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PeterWeller" data-source="post: 4213740" data-attributes="member: 55795"><p>Granted, I'm sure some of the sentiments expressed come from an anti-capitalist position, but this isn't a politics forum, and like you said, many people don't know enough about economics to really root their problems in a value assessment of capitalism.  In addition, it's simply ridiculous to look at this argument as capitalist/anti-capitalist when one of the central conceits of the discussion is that we live in a capitalist society (most of us, at least; this is an international community), and that WotC is a capitalist company operating under the rules of that economic system.  With those caveats in place, the question becomes: is WotC operating ethically and conscientiously towards its customers within that system.  To make it something more than that is the real straw man, obfuscating the real discussion of whether or not WotC is acting responsibly as a capitalist entity by engaging in a discussion of the rights and wrongs of capitalism.</p></blockquote><p></p>