Has there been a techbro Scrooge movie yet? There will be, I just hope it gets made in Korea before Hollywood gets any ideas. That way it can at least have some anticapitalist themes.
I've tried really hard to imagine what this take on a Christmas Carol would be like and TBH, and as obvious as it seems, I've really struggled to form a coherent picture that even resembles christmas carol and/or has a coherent moral message that's relevant. Even in a Christmas Carol the message isn't that money or rich people are bad, but is if anything a cautionary tale about how hollow the accumulation of wealth for its own sake is. Scrooge isn't really bad or evil because he's rich, but because he lives a hollow pointless and isolated existence alone deprived of any meaning. His lesson is more about nobelesse oblige and not forgetting his personal/familial connection...because in the end nothing he has done in life has mattered and he will have been completely forgotten.
Techbro Scrooge wouldn't really be that though. Techbro scrooge would be going mountain skiing every weekend with friends and family or throwing wild parties for his workplace staff all the time and living life large and in charge. He'd have thousands of instagram followers and would generally be leading a pretty goddamn crazy existence. Its an existance based entirely on exploitation of course...but its going to be hard to do a techbro scrooge story without making it seem aspirational. I'm honestly not sure how you can really do a modern take on scrooge that has him as the protagonist and is also anticapitalist.
I've tried really hard to imagine what this take on a Christmas Carol would be like and TBH, and as obvious as it seems, I've really struggled to form a coherent picture that even resembles christmas carol and/or has a coherent moral message that's relevant. Even in a Christmas Carol the message isn't that money or rich people are bad, but is if anything a cautionary tale about how hollow the accumulation of wealth for its own sake is. Scrooge isn't really bad or evil because he's rich, but because he lives a hollow pointless and isolated existence alone deprived of any meaning. His lesson is more about nobelesse oblige and not forgetting his personal/familial connection...because in the end nothing he has done in life has mattered and he will have been completely forgotten.
Techbro Scrooge wouldn't really be that though. Techbro scrooge would be going mountain skiing every weekend with friends and family or throwing wild parties for his workplace staff all the time and living life large and in charge. He'd have thousands of instagram followers and would generally be leading a pretty goddamn crazy existence. Its an existance based entirely on exploitation of course...but its going to be hard to do a techbro scrooge story without making it seem aspirational. I'm honestly not sure how you can really do a modern take on scrooge that has him as the protagonist and is also anticapitalist.