Kulturkampf

[Uncle]

Pretty sure they had farming and families and consumption. Likely trade even. Currency.

But what do I know, I've only read about history of the world not labeled everything above nomadic hunter/gather tribes as "colonization" or "white" like the experts.

It basically sounds like a strange mix of "anything that matters in the modern world was created by the west" and the "noble savage" trope. Like honestly it seems kinda offensive.

also boils down to "ugh, you mean practice and performing actions well and efficiently results in success and personal gain?? that's so capitalistic!"

success, even represented simply by navigating past goombas and pits to be celebrated by fireworks at the end of the level, is an anathema of a concept

but the alternative is a game where everything is already unlocked or given to you and there is no challenge or purpose to any of it

almost like...that's an effective little microcosm of what their worldview would do to humanity