Two answers.

Thomas Picketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Century

Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

Even reading a brief summary of the main points of both books gets you to a decent explanation.

genius

can I be a seed and someone put me in there, fuck this timeline, I wanna go chill with some seeds

then you gotta be like “shhh don’t tell anyone but CHICKENS ARE SECRETLY DINOS”

Honestly the Steam Deck could never become more powerful and I would be perfectly fine with it. Hardware reliability, ecosystem maturity and quality of life features are what actually matters. The deck already can run several lifetimes of indy games and that is just going to grow.

Chasing performance to improve Steam Deck sales I think is a subpar play, though that being said more powerful hardware is always welcome.

In my opinion the pc gaming market (excluding indies) has an irrational obsession on focusing only on making performance heavy games with extremely taxing system requirements, the Steam Deck blowing up in popularity with its subpar hardware is honestly one of the best things that could happen to the pc gaming industry.

This happens sometimes with (human) business and econ majors in groups