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.
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.