• 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