Pizza_Rat

It's the fucking worst.

We simply can't leave until we get some wheeeaaat!

Huh.

Wrong turn on 3rd...

Same

I'm a big fan of Always Sunny, but not much outside of that.

My take on it is this: it's a movie about being a nobody with small, kind of pedestrian life goals, in a time when everyone is trying to be famous and we are inundated by media and celebrity. Everyone in the movie tries to make themselves the main character, except for the actual protagonist.

The most essential question of the film, at a literal and existential level, is this: who is this story about?

I agree completely!

Fools Paradise. I loved it. Thought it was beautiful, subtle, and weird.

I was absolutely shocked how poorly it has been received. I think most people completely missed the point of the movie.

Agreed. What a dumb article.

Hot take: it was a valiant effort by people with tremendous power and influence to do the right thing with the wrong tools. Blackrock et al. tested the hypothesis that companies can generate greater returns by doing good. In doing so they risked their reputation and relationships with their investors.

We all learned together that their hypothesis is wrong. One cannot add a constraint (ESG etc) without compromising returns, and the big money piles operate with mandates to maximize risk-adjusted returns.

Or maybe we could work a unified coalition of voters around the implementation of a carbon tax, incremented over a period of years, to align those incentives?