A little bit of “I did something creative and profited” would probably be fine. The real life implementation as “I’m going to pay children pennies to sell adulterated bread for dollars” is really bad.
Even less hyperbolic versions tend to quickly become bad. CEOs and such that keep most of the value created by labor. Externalized costs suffered mostly by the poor and vulnerable. People being told to work or die. It’s not a good system to live in.
Pokemon go. There were always people eager to tell you how it’s not very good. Like, ok. Do you want me to stop having fun now, or is there a grace period, or?
Though ironically I do have a bit of a “fun police” impulse around dungeons and dragons via “oh my gosh why are you doing a social intrigue game with this rules set” I’ve been working on keeping that to myself.
I feel like sometimes people just want to feel like they’re a part of something. Not consciously, necessarily. But like, “the in-group says nickelback sucks, so if I make a joke about how they’re bad people will laugh, and like me, and I’ll fit in”
A lot of people never really stop being teenagers.
There are no universal truths about the behavior of “men” and “women” (nor other gender identities)
However, I believe men (at least in the US) are often socialized to more emotionally closed off. Like the only emotion allowed is anger. Other emotions are seen as weak or femme (which are viewed as the same)
It’s a good game, and I say that despite disliking DND 5e. Mods help
There’s validity to “found art”, I think. Like “death of the author” for text, sometimes what you pull out of viewing something is worthwhile even if the artist didn’t mean it (or didn’t exist)