• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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    19 days ago

    Couldn’t he just take all the billionaires and fly them into the sun or smth? I don’t know if that alone would fix things, but it’s a start. Also literally no downsides.

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 days ago

      It is interesting that Superman’s archenemy was an incredibly wealthy businessman. That seems to be the exact problem with our world today (there’s just many more of them).

      • Obinice@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        The more you look at the villains in all the TV, movies, and books growing up, the more you realise they’re mostly evil capitalists.

        It’s weird that Hollywood etc would green light so many movies about how rich people like themselves are evil, and teaching kids to fight against them.

        The rich landlord is going to close the community club hall! The rich businessman is trying to have us killed to cover up his chemical spills! Etc etc.

        If it’s not a literal alien from another planet, more often than not the bad guy is just a literal normal capitalist.

        And yet try to use the lessons taught in every piece of media you ever watched as an impressionable child, and you’re told that your anticapitalist beliefs are “extremist” and you’re dangerous and must be stopped.

        Weird eh?

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      Only watched half of the video (because it’s something I’m well aware of), so it might have gone into it, but another angle is that there’s often villains that make good points and then suddenly take it in a batshit direction.

      Like Thanos had a point but apparently never understood exponential growth and how reducing all life by any constant factor is just delaying the same result, even if his snap made 99% of people disappear (unless he snaps enough people that the population collapses entirely, which is what he wanted to avoid).

      There’s many other examples where reasonable starting points end up in unquestionably evil conclusions. Pretty sure it’s just propaganda to make people who don’t think much about things link those reasonable beginnings with “evil” in their minds.

      Also there’s characters like Bruce Wayne and Tony Stark who are billionaires but their stories always ignore the realities of what must be done in order to become a billionaire (ie underpay staff doing the actual work by billions). In Stark’s case, they sidestep that by giving him super advanced AIs and automation robots, though he’s still the owner of a large corporation, that he still benefits from despite offloading any of the responsibility of even running it to everyone else.

      • Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com
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        18 days ago

        They even rewrote Thanos to have those Malthusian undertones, originally he just had a bone for Marvel’s legally distinct from DC’d genki goth girl personification of death and wanted her to notice him.

      • kameecoding@lemmy.world
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        19 days ago

        It’s addressed in the video, that these characters are always written to then go over the proverbial line.

    • Lumisal@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      Oy dumbass, “yeah” is already slang for “yes” that came out in the 1800s. So the word is technically “yes”, but “yea” is an optimization of slang.

      I’d say study language better but no amount of money can fix being a dumbass egotistical asshole.

  • MrNesser@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Isn’t superman pro free will

    He will protect against threats but if you fuck it up your mostly on your own

    • Corn@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      19 days ago

      Does superman think humanity chose capitalism? If Superman landed in 1600s Europe, would he think humanity chose feudalism and help put down peasant uprisings? 1700s Haiti, would he help stop slaves from stealing or enacting violence against the French?

      • NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world
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        19 days ago

        When it comes to the economy, capitalism with a heavy dose of regulation is the best option we have right now.

        Attempts at communism have failed miserably and just led to dictatorships.

        Unless you’re proposing something better than either of those?

        • MrNesser@lemmy.world
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          19 days ago

          Oddly a form of communism would work but only in a post scarcity society where all your needs are met.

          • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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            18 days ago

            Aren’t we already living in a post scarcity society in terms of economic output? Our only real limit is currently that we are using up natural resources too fast, but that would be greatly mitigated by cutting down on billionaires and a couple of other extremely wasteful activities.

  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    18 days ago

    Do people really write “yeah” as “yea”? Why isn’t that pronounced like sea or pea or tea?

  • alekwithak@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Nobody understands Superman, especially most of his writers.

    Dude is alien Moses created by two Jews during the Holocaust. His arch nemesis is a billionaire/the president. C’mon.

    • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
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      18 days ago

      has there even been a plot line where the system in so corrupt, superman has no choice but to become a villain to safe the world.

      ie he didn’t have the “consent” of the us president.

      probably happened when lex was president.