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[-] Iapar@feddit.org 14 points 1 month ago

I don't understand what you are saying but I want to.

Care to tell me what is the message of atlas shruggs and the jungle are?

[-] erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 1 month ago

Atlas Shrugged is the conservative wet dream of "what if the rich people that totally do all the work and hold everything together got tired of the poors being so whiny and ungrateful and stopped." It's an-cap fan fiction.

[-] Denjin@lemmings.world 27 points 1 month ago

Ayn Rand wrote robber baron fan fiction

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago

And then died living off social security and Medicare.

[-] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Like a true hypocrite

[-] erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago
[-] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

"Robber baron" needs a resurgence for modern times

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

you missed out the part where they go to live inside a holographic volcano and pay each other with gold - which of course is useless inside a volcano but the book glosses over that

[-] erin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 1 month ago

The Jungle was a book exposing the nightmares of the industrial revolution, especially in the meat packing industry.

[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Since others have explained what those stories are about, the juxtaposition is about the idea of the Ubermensch being the savior of humanity, namely one where the Ubermensch are capitalists, is a dead concept in a world where we've let the capitalists run everything and result is an unmitigated disaster.

Turns out, they just want money and power. That's it, they can't save us. Why is this movie venerating them?

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