• SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    ...by forcing them to murder each other as their only hope to get out of poverty, right?

    And it's still this lost on people? Hopeless.

    • Rojo27 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Yeah. Everyone I know that is talking about it never mentions how it's an allegory for how fucked up capitalism is.

      Hell. The guy who wrote the script himself seemed to be in a pretty bad place and it took 10 years for the script to be picked up. So now people are being sold on a "pick yourself up by the bootstraps" story rather than the anti-capitalist one that I'm sure the writer intended it to be.

      • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        it took 10 years for the script to be picked up. So now people are being sold on a “pick yourself up by the bootstraps” story

        Survivorship bias is so strong, and it's so hard to disabuse people of it

    • Sen_Jen [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Obviously the message is "hey what if this happened in real life. Would that be fucked or what"