• KurtVonnegut [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Iron Man invented a way to create free green energy. And instead of sharing it with the world, he kept it for himself and used it to build weapons, which he used to personally intervene in foreign countries's conflicts. Yes this is the "good guy".

    Also, "One world, one people" isn't even that radical of an idea. It just means we're all human beings.

    • comi [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah, like I’m amazed, even in capitalist paradigm, the arc reactor would rip the oil sector, cars, mobile tech and energy grid sectors, it’s literally 100 trillions dollar shit. Instead we get biggest brain “we’ll sell armored suits to the government”, which will pay at best 100 billions a year.

    • MathVelazquez [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The first Iron Man covered this in the most cynical way. Jeff Bridges says something like "the arc reactor was a PR stunt, it was never going to reach profitability." So the in universe explanation is perfectly reasonable; if the materials for an arc reactor are prohibitively expensive capitalists would never choose to develop this technology. The profit incentive simply is not there for providing "free" energy.