Are you saying it's neoliberal from the angle of like "small business brazenly disregards environmental regulations because they're cool and the EPA are nerds"?
It's the thesis of "any problem can be solved by private enterprise". If ghosts and stuff become such a problem that exterminators of sorts are required, and it's like super-dangerous tech and stuff... then why are 3 shlub professors in New York doing it on their own dime? Shouldn't that be like a public interest matter?
Yeah, they're effectively petit bourgeois entrepreneurs making profit off a natural disaster. The video game (effectively Ghostbusters 3) makes some vague gestures at squaring that circle though. They've become contractors working for the city with a public insurance fund. The EPA guy from the first movie is their supervisor or something, but they still treat him like a nerd dork loser. I'm not sure if this was a conscious decision to make the Ghostbusters seem more publicly accountable, or if it's supposed to imply they gained more public trust, or maybe it's just a silly game play mechanic where you get a report of the dollar amount of destruction at the end of levels.
Are you saying it's neoliberal from the angle of like "small business brazenly disregards environmental regulations because they're cool and the EPA are nerds"?
It's the thesis of "any problem can be solved by private enterprise". If ghosts and stuff become such a problem that exterminators of sorts are required, and it's like super-dangerous tech and stuff... then why are 3 shlub professors in New York doing it on their own dime? Shouldn't that be like a public interest matter?
Yeah, they're effectively petit bourgeois entrepreneurs making profit off a natural disaster. The video game (effectively Ghostbusters 3) makes some vague gestures at squaring that circle though. They've become contractors working for the city with a public insurance fund. The EPA guy from the first movie is their supervisor or something, but they still treat him like a nerd dork loser. I'm not sure if this was a conscious decision to make the Ghostbusters seem more publicly accountable, or if it's supposed to imply they gained more public trust, or maybe it's just a silly game play mechanic where you get a report of the dollar amount of destruction at the end of levels.