The Pursuit of Happyness is really bad. Will Smith's inspirational moment is going to the New York Stock Exchange and seeing all the happy rich guys in suits walking around, and wanting to be like them. Having to do stuff like brown-nose executives, sleep in train station bathrooms and pull his son out of daycare due to lack of money are presented not as flaws of the system but evidence of Smith's smart bootstraps-oriented thinking. This movie is the Mein Kampf of liberalism.
Oh yes, yes it does.
It only added to the :brainworms: of the "mankind must leave the cradle, humans must become an interplanetary species" escapist fantasies of liberals that never want to even dial back their consumption.
that story would be very cool under a communist context though
Not saying it wouldn't, but when it's billionaires with god complexes fantasizing about increasingly wasteful and convoluted "spacesteads" to escape what little taxes and legal liabilities that may have inconvenienced them, then masking that all in Manifest Destiny ideology, the appeal is lost.
literally Elon Musk’s wet dream in film