Absolutely, which is why nationalization (actually seizing the means) is much more in depth of a discussion than just saying “tax the rich” and not elaborating.

I think this rings especially true because a lot of gamers and redditors in real life honestly connect more with the “spirit of the nation” than with the working class. Not to generalize the entire hobby, bu I think a lot of gamers are at least well-off enough to be distracted away from the real life contradictions of capitalism so that they don’t have to think about labour rights or economic systems. This leaves them to fantasize about how they would improve society if they were, god-like, in the shoes of the “spirit of the nation”. Things like “oh, if I could control the United States, I would prosecute Trump, and raise taxes on the rich, or build more houses in such-and-such place.” People like this do not have the class analysis required to understand why these things would not work so easily in real life (the rich would just flee the country with their profits, more houses does not actually give unhoused people homes, etc.). And this is the hypothetical milquetoast liberal gamer, to say nothing of the chud gamer.

Thus, when they are confronted with some of these roadblocks in a video game for the first time, they do not understand it at all. Video games are usually about enacting any fantastical policy you want, with the only pushback usually being simple economics or math, like their money number or stability number hadn’t gotten high enough yet. Their brains are broken.