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This is an enjoyable and thought provoking game, if one whose intended experience I ruined because I read the description before playing it. But considering the title of the game jam this was submitted to, I think it would be easy to guess as to what the message of it was.

As other commenters have pointed out, the game is well done. The Visuals are pleasing to look at, the music is bearable enough I suppose, and it runs without glitching. Which doesn't sound like much, but crossing the bar of having a functional game is a difficult thing to achieve, even if it doesn't look like it. As I understand it anyway.

The experience itself, as mentioned previously, proved enlightening. The whole thing where you try to choose the "good" options early on leading to failure due to you not being able to both buy lemons and sell them at the same time leading to you just buying the one with the bigger number. Which initially is understandable, after all why buy a manual squeezer when you can grab an electric one.

Over time however, likely representing the company becoming a larger and more influential corporate entity, it becomes questionable. Do greenwashing, dump the waste on a river and just label the fines you take as cost of operation, outsource the farms where you get your inputs from to South East Asia. And in the final one where you have to sprint for a Billion or lose, bribe a politician instead of just paying your workers properly.

Onto the things written in the page, saying that Central Planning is unfeasible against Laissez-faire approaches because it's centralized is misguided in my eyes. Because there is an argument made that the system used by the Megacorporations is basically using Central Planning. For more details on that statement, check out the book "The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism" by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworsk.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply! 
About what you mention in the last paragraph, that sounds like an interesting read. I never thought about it and, even though it makes sense in many ways, since a company is actually a centralized structure, I see a company more like a feudal state instead of a democratic state. And of course, profit oriented. A country has deeper variables, but anyway, I should read the book before jumping to conclusions. Thank you for the recommendation :D