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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 19 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

What isn't fiction is that when faced with dwindling resources, the capitalist class, which already operated in an unethical fashion, went on to invent new, more abominable and dangerous (or so they thought) ways to turn suffering into business.

Remember, at the end they didn't replace the bad guy with a good guy, Monsters started operating the power plant themselves.

Tune in for the next post, where someone talks about the Marxist subtext in A Bug's Life

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

So many animated films have a marxist subtext. Even more animated films are generally anti capitalist.

[–] psycotica0@lemmy.ca 8 points 13 hours ago

He was removed, not because he was bad, but because he was bad and unnecessary.

If the monster world went into a blackout, he'd have been out and operating the child-reactor with full government support. Only because Sully found a new, compatible, source of power was the ethics of the old system finally up for debate. Slavery is only allowed to be abolished after it stops being "necessary" for the economics of the system.

And yeah, it's a movie, so he got taken away in cuffs before the new power source was operationalized, but that's just a bit of movie magic 😉

[–] Fancy_Gecko@lemmy.ml 23 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

the villain in monster inc is 100 times less evil than the epstein class

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

'ill kidnap a hundred children before I let this company die'

Pretty sure Epstein kidnapped more than a hundred over time

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

He did still profit from child suffering tho

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Sure but how many of them did he fuck and murder and eat?

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

He hadn't gotten up to that stage on the plutocracy yet

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 16 hours ago

Not unless you're the PRC, Vietnam, etc, which regularly execute or imprison capitalists.

[–] lithiumground@lemmy.ml 3 points 13 hours ago

Rich/oligarchs just thing their interest. Bill gates,elon musk, whatever , promotes if they are working on the World,but reality is that ,they working on get more power and more power. Rich are too greedy.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 15 hours ago

The Panama Papers, the Epstein Files, etc. have shown that system won't change because the people in power are benefiting from the status quo.

It's going to be up to us to push for large systemic change.

[–] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 14 hours ago

Is the Board of Directors affected?