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[–] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 124 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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?