Editing To Sell Toys (section)

==But I don't even care about GW/Hasbro/etc...==

Well, tough shit. If you enjoy anything made by a company, or even many things that are not, those things exist because they make money. For-profit organizations are there to make a profit, and so are many non-for-profit ones too. Even things made publicly available by independent groups still have people, who gotta eat.

All the core points made here affects 99% of the things you do or use in the world. Tabletop games, video games, film, television, food, medicine, [[Slaanesh|prostitutes]], the list goes on—but everything that costs money does so because a good or service is being provided, and the person providing it can't do it for free, even if they wanted to. That's [[capitalism]] for you. 

And if you're using something that is made by a corporation, is not [[pirate]]d, and seems free?

''You'' are the product. Selling data is big bucks, and don't think for a second that whoever's buying it will use it to do something nice for you.

The only situation in which "making profit" would cease being a thing in the future, is if ''entire core principles of economy got changed''. Like, "[[Communism|World Revolution happened and we live in planned economy]]" or "[[Transhumanism#The_Singularity|Singularity Happened]] and [[Hive Mind|our minds are all united]]" or similarly massive scale events. But that would not happen soon - in a few decades or so, if at all - and until then, the only thing companies would care about is making profit.

Alternatively in far future, "making profit" would come to end if the [[Whale|"buys our products em masse no matter how shitty it is" people category]] would go extinct - once audience is made entirely out of people which ''care what they spend their money for'', companies must either make true masterpieces or go bankrupt. But this is practically impossible normally, as for that to happen, either ''stupidity as as a phenomenon'' or ''rich-ness as a phenomenon'' must go extinct; the former requires artificially boosting intelligence and cognitive abilities of population (which leads us back to [[Transhumanism#The_Singularity|The Singularity]], as it leads to exponential "Rapid Self-Improvement", aka people becoming smarter and therefore coming up with better ways to make himself even smarter ad infinity) - and the latter requires either massive overhaul of economy (e.g. [[Communism|planned economy]]) or complete collapse of economy (e.g. "everyone are poor and starving").

And even in small spare time projects, the popular characters (with the creators, if nothing else) are going to get the spotlight if the creators have any sense.

As for the future? We don't know, but unless something drastic happens, we suspect that the only things that will change are what the "Toys" are and how stupid things get.