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Capitalism Is Bad

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Capitalism Is Bad	comment	Many people believe that greed is the root of all evil. Some individuals would take it a step further and go so far as to proclaim "Fuck the Rich!" and demand the destruction of the system that they see as being a Plutocracy that is of the Corporations, by the Corporations, for the Corporations to screw the people over. This trope can come in a variety of forms: Class struggle: Arguably the most well-known form of this in which Capitalism is portrayed as benefitting a small elite at the expense and oppression of the poor and middle class. Black Market opportunism: Possibly the least controversial version of this trope, Corrupt Corporate Executives are portrayed as abusing loopholes or outright flouting the law to aggrandize themselves by immoral means such as drug dealing, contract killing, smuggling, illegal arms dealing, slavery (in settings when/where it is outlawed. See the fifth point for details), and illegal business transactions (e.g. cartels, scamming). Environmental Destruction: Sometimes a Green Aesop is incorporated in an effort to broaden its message in portraying businessmen as blatantly irresponsible in harming the planet in order to make a profit. May overlap with Science Is Bad in certain situations. Religious criticism: Works that have this sort of angle will seek to present capitalism as incompatible with certain religions and in some cases argue it as being a sin against its god(s) and/or basic principles. At the very least, it will present it as amorally "incentivizing sin" by supplying material that is prohibited by that religion's guidelines (e.g. alcoholic beverages, pornography, certain prohibited foods (e.g. pork), etc.). Can be a right-wing attack on capitalism that thinks its market liberalism is too decadent or a left-wing liberation theology example. Racial and ethnic oppression: Somewhat of an outgrowth of the first variety, but with a special focus on the effects of capitalism on certain races and ethnic groups in the forms of slavery, segregation, imperialism, and/or colonialism. Ableism: a more recent critique, similar to Class Struggle and Racial and Ethnic Oppression. Examples of this critique include barriers to employment, lower quality of life, and discrimination, faced by persons with physical or cognitive disabilities. Patriarchy: a feminist critique of capitalism, also similar in theory to racial and economic oppression, which emphasizes the tendency of capitalist societies to subordinate women, as well as gender and sexual nonconformists, relative to cisgender, heterosexual men. Notably a feature of Intersectional Feminism, where it overlaps with other anti-capitalist critiques listed on this page. In this context, capitalism is also seen as sexually exploitative (and usually involves a Double Standard). War as a business: A critique sometimes used as a display of how wars are fought at the beck and call of those with a financial interest in spreading death and destruction, often tying in with ideas of colonialism. Unless they are socialist Utopian stories, works employing this trope will generally be on the cynical side of the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism and the villains will typically be categorized as Lawful Evil in Character Alignment. Anarchist works will have heroes in the Chaotic Good sphere as heroic revolutionaries while stories involving an existing socialist nation will firmly paint them as Lawful Good comrades. Though some Lighter and Softer versions of this trope may focus on certain aspects of capitalism, such as consumerism and the policy regarding regulation, rather than condemning it as a whole. More nuanced works with this trope may also employ Humans Are Flawed or Humans Are Bastards being that, after all, businesspeople are humans too, unless they're aliens or a point is made on how the human majority is working-class and moral in the face of the rich decadent few. Use of this trope is no guarantee that the writer understands capitalism and is willing to portray it fairly. Some works invoking this trope have come under criticism for their superficial depiction of capitalism. Terms such as "critique of capitalism" are often used as empty marketing slogans to make works seem more interesting and important than they are. Such terms have been used as such for so long that their use as such is now satirized. Before snarking about some writers and actors employing anti-capitalist messages while profiting from them as being hypocrites, keep in mind that narrative fiction creators are more likely to identify as artists than as businesspeople. And then there's the fact that a) people need to eat and pay bills, and b) capitalism is nearly omnipresent, so working outside capitalism is virtually impossible. In the less popular Marxist sense, however, class is merely your relation to capital, so making money isn't a problem as long as you yourself are a worker and not profiting off of employees. Sometimes represented by The Man. Compare and Contrast with Aristocrats Are Evil and Democracy Is Bad (the latter of which some believe can strengthen people's property rights, and thus enforce Capitalism, in certain situations. Others stress that capitalism is inherently undemocratic when the rich hold influence). Also keep in mind that not every work of fiction that features a Corrupt Corporate Executive is necessarily playing this trope. For example, Rufus Shinra from Final Fantasy VII and David Xanatos from Gargoyles are both unscrupulous businessmen, but the nature of capitalism is never explored in any detail and therefore those works would not count for this trope. However, that will not necessarily stop critics from deriving anti-capitalist messages from it anyways. Not to be confused with Adam Smith Hates Your Guts which is a video game mechanic. See also Chummy Commies. For the opposite of this trope, see Dirty Communists.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_227431b6	comment	Runaways occasionally delves into this, given that it's a series about former rich kids trying to survive after the deaths of their supervillain parents. And then there's the "Dead End Kids" arc, where they flirt with supervillainy because they've been cut off from their hideout and they're tired of sleeping in their getaway vehicle.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_25a6826e	comment	Reds!: A Revolutionary Timeline, being an Alternate History about a socialist revolution in the US written by a socialist, has this in any depiction of capitalist countries, both in and out of universe. The Fire Never Dies has a similar premise and themes.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_3d513f8	comment	This is Jim Stephanie Sterling's opinion regarding the video game industry (especially the "Triple A" major studios), and capitalism in general, with the industry leaders' insatiable greed resulting in various major problems including: Destroying the well-being of the companies' own employees by withholding bonuses on flimsy premises, forcing their staff to do thousands of hours of unpaid overtime as a collective during pre-release "crunch" periods. Promoting horrible and predatory business practices such as gambling lootboxes, cutting content to resell it later, increasing the grinding games require to sell "fast track" upgrades & in-game currency. Using their money and connection to avoid or circumvent regulations and taxes that might be put upon them, with any charitable acts being so insignificant compared to their earnings that they should not be considered as anything else than publicity stunts to appear as good guys and discourage putting regulations or restrictions on them.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_6a4bddd6	comment	Iron Man: The comics play with this on some occasions. Stan Lee and Larry Lieber noticed that all the businessmen in the Marvel Universe, and for that matter comics in general, were those of the Corrupt Corporate Executive type, and thus decided to create a superhero who averted this trope in the form of Tony Stark (AKA Iron Man), possibly to demonstrate that capitalism was not inherently evil but also as a personal challenge for Lee, to turn a war profiteer into a beloved character. Some of the villains that he faces, most notably Obadiah Stane, lack any of Stark's integrity and take advantage of armed conflicts to make a profit. Thus the beneficial and detrimental effects of capitalism can be played up in certain storylines.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_7785278d	comment	BioShock: Arguably the central theme of BioShock. The setting is a laissez-faire capitalist utopia in a city at the bottom of the ocean, built by industrialist Andrew Ryan (explicitly an Expy of Ayn Rand). Without proper regulation, Rapture quickly turned into a Wretched Hive ruled by Corrupt Corporate Executives and Social Darwinists; the poor were dehumanized and seen as "parasites" (despite doing all the necessary work to maintain the city), and everything became commodified, fitted with a price tag - even breathable airnote In a city that's underwater, worth reminding. When someone with even more ruthlessness and business acumen began to outcompete Ryan in the market, Ryan turned to state power to come down on his business rival, dashing all of his guiding beliefs and sparking a Civil War with Rapture's other business owners. Ryan won the resulting war, turning Rapture into a tyrannical One Nation Under Copyright, and the whole city snapped a few years later with a second Civil War that destroyed Rapture. Though, it should be noted that Ken Levine has said that the theme of the game was more that Humans Are Flawed and extremism of any kind is not beneficial. Bioshock 2: By contrast, the new tyrant Sophia Lamb is a self-proclaimed collectivist, who seized power by organizing a cult of disenfranchised ex-capitalists while she was waiting in prison for Ryan to finally die. Instead of selling the genetic modification drugs everyone has been fighting over, her master plan is to experiment with them until she can transform her daughter into an Ãœbermensch, an ultimate lifeform meant to rule the world. In this case, it is less about what Capitalism does in charge, and more about what non-capitalist rulers can do with capitalism; Lamb is completely hostile to the concept of capitalism, but she has stolen the corporations' means of production, and is using their product in her grand, dangerous, and unethical science experiment. BioShock Infinite: While this game's extremism is about religious jingoism, one of the major power players is Fink Industries, which proudly checklists every tactic of the Age of Robber Barons. Fink uses the city's extreme racism to enslave the working class minorities, pays them in scrip, sends them to ghettoes, and has them bid on temp jobs for the cheapest prices. He even forces them to work in beat with his brother's music for the ego trip! Judas takes 21st-century capitalism to an extreme. An entire colony spaceship has been turned into a giant theme park, with the workers buying into social media while pretending their sub-standard way of life is paradise just because it keeps the lights on. Instead of corporations selling faulty and dangerous products, the employees are the product, suckered into selling their souls for bland, bare-effort T-shirts, and brainwashed to mindlessly worship the CEOs of the three ruling corporations. And unfortunately, this game also portrays the potential side-effects of AI capitalism; AI was so utterly profitable that the corporations eventually gave their central AIs full control. When the protagonist finally snapped, she tried to sabotage the ship's mainframe to destroy the corporations' power - which accidentally drives all of the ship's AIs insane at once, from the worker drones to the piloting systems.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_7b7f461d	comment	Super Mario World (1991) had King Koopa open a fast-food joint, Scoopa Koopa's. The food was addictive, calorie-filled, and had nasty side-effects that turned customers into chickadactyls. Koopa's ultimate plan was to turn everyone into chickens and open a second restaurant to sell them as fried chicken, gloating that you can't be too rich or too evil.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_7f3e688b	comment	The Promised Land depicts the appalling exploitation of workers by factory owners in 1885 Å�Ã³dÅº. Mr. Muller builds a palace that he doesn't even live in, just to impress people, while the workers live in squalor and pawn their possessions. A factory magnate essentially forces a pretty girl to go to an orgy. A worker is chewed up by machinery; as he's still twitching with one arm gone and the other still caught in the machine, Karol tells everyone else to go back to work. And at the end, Karol orders his security forces to shoot at the strikers, and a man carrying a red flag is shot In the Back.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_81692f99	comment	In Star Trek the Federation is a post-scarcity, post money utopia. But Depending on the Writer it only explores how this is possible a few times. The concept of how the society is moneyless is that the Matter Replicator technology has reduced all basic necessities as a trivial issue. All problems with resources surround colonies and alien societies, who represent various human issues through Planet of Hats. Except for the apparent voluntary and inconsequential existence of markets in the Federation appearing to be a tolerated "lifestyle choice." Seems the Federation doesn't care whether you accept all their free stuff or not, as long as you're not profiting off other people not having things. So they have money, they just don't allow it to generate socioeconomic disparity. Kind of a "be capitalist at your own risk" mentality. Capitalism as a whole is lampooned through the Ferengi, whose entire theme is about wealth and business. They were first introduced in TNG's "The Last Outpost" and explicitly compared to "Yankee Traders," and on top of other things were also short gremlin-like creatures with misogynistic views. Their religion even talked of bartering and earning a place in a celestial treasure trove. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine featured Quark as a main character and was able to provide a more nuanced take on their culture. He once chided Sisko for looking down on Ferengi when they never practiced slavery or had wars on the same level as Earth because they are toxic to a healthy economy. He also talked to the Prophets, who had little comprehension of linear time or physical existence, and was able to provide a convincing argument over the value of greed and ambition. He talked to a Vulcan and explained the logic of going to war through business terms, if neither side wants war then peace should be available at a bargain price. Later in the series Ferengi started to relax their policies around women because females with jobs will have the opportunity to buy things.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_85b79d17	comment	Black Mirror plays with this in several episodes: "Fifteen Million Merits": In this dystopian future, people do pointless work to buy pointless things, and celebrity status is the only carrot on the stick. People keep degrading themselves in pursuit of fame, and then when they find fame they realise they've only escaped into another prison. "White Bear": Shows a privatized prison being determined into a nightmare and a woman's eternal suffering being used to make lots of money. "White Christmas": Matt is an amoral businessman willing to send virtual clones into hell in order to make money. "Nosedive": An episode set in a dystopian future where your social media ratings determine everything about you, from your job to your housing to even your priority for hospital treatment. All social interaction in the world is reduced to a game where people exchange numbers, and it makes them behave like shallow sociopaths with no concept of true friendship or decency. "Playtest": Shows how ruthless a corporation can be by literally killing a man and treating it as a business loss. "Black Museum": Shows an amoral businessman using sadists, white supremacists, and torture to make a lot of money.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_93e0d9e3	comment	Jennifer Government: In many ways the Anti-1984 (read about that one above), in which a dystopia exists by way of powerful corporations seeking to aggrandize themselves and have turned the United States government into a puppet to serve their own purposes. Its condemnation of libertarianism is so over the top (especially going out of its way to present John Nike as the worst kind of person in existence to make readers come to a conclusion) that it seems like self-parody.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_9994a14f	comment	WALLâ€¢E: Rampant consumerism encouraged by a Walmart Expy turned One Nation Under Copyright brought about such ecological destruction that Earth had to be evacuated due to literal skyscrapers of garbage. The humans living in orbit on the Axiom are little better, essentially living as overgrown children who basically exist to eat, lounge around in boredom and buy things whenever prompted by adverts. When the Axiom goes back to Earth at the end, the humans adopt a Solar Punk-style society which is healthier for them and for the planet. Director Andrew Stanton has gone on record for saying he didn't intend for this.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_9a6bf4b3	comment	Parodied by The Future, a rather hypocritical group of communists from Hail, Caesar!. As communists, they see capitalism as an oppressive system that takes their good work as writers and gives them nothing for it. This doesn't stop them from not wanting to redistribute their ransom money evenly, or letting their Soviet bosses get all the money for their labor, or from listening to a professor who says the best way to fight capitalism is to try and obtain the most wealth as possible, a capitalist mindset. The whole philosophy is presented as humorously contradictory, except when Eddie Mannix hears a big actor using it to bad mouth the studio after all it sacrificed to rescue him and secure his career. Mannix slaps the actor silly and makes him realize that all the hard work people put in to make a movie is not just to drive some system, it's worth something.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_9a9b24fa	comment	In Jurassic Park (1993), Ian Malcolm sums this up when criticizing Hammond and his Jurassic Park experiment by pointing out how he created something and the first thing he did was turn it into a business venture
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_9ef055f4	comment	The earlier Ratchet & Clank games include some strong satire, whereas more recent games starting with Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction onwards avert this. While the companies that make the weapons that the protagonist and many other people (including villains) use aren't actively malevolent, they are certainly apathetic in regard to the destruction their customs cause after they've paid for them. In fact, the series is actually the Trope Namer for MegaCorp. Starting in the first game, everyone who is capable of helping the heroes progress on their journey requires bribes to do so, they follow the famous superhero by watching all of the tacky ads he was paid to star in, and it turns out that he's a washed-up failure helping the bad guy for cash. In the second game, MegaCorp plays numerous ads showing how hilariously uncaring they are about the safety of their customer or employees, and their base is located at the centre of the galaxy, meaning that the entire galaxy literally rotates about this one corporation. The fourth game has the heroes being forced to compete in a gladiator gameshow for cash, while the main antagonists are a former hero who sold out for the money and a Corrupt Corporate Executive more concerned with the revenue he can get for commercials and merchandising of the heroes he is forcing to kill each other.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_a7b231a4	comment	The Boondocks: Capitalism is portrayed as detrimental force on the lives of everyone, with the exception of a white elite, especially on the black community in keeping it in perpetual poverty unless one decides to go "acting white" (though "acting black" isn't seen as being wise either). To add to this, Huey Freeman frequently quotes Karl Marx to back up his opinion. In the last season of the cartoon based on the comics, Granndad was driven into prostitution, corpse smuggling, and actual slavery by his own blind, irresponsible consumerism, and the manipulative usury of his plutocrat landlords, the Wunclers. Pissing on the poor seems to be an actual pastime of Ed Wuncler's; he once trapped a little girl into wage slavery in a lemonade stand, by promising her a pony. All of this bleak horror is Played for Laughs. The necessary condition towards upwards mobility isn't "acting white" ("acting black" is perpetually shown to be synonymous with "acting like a damned fool") so much as "affecting a very narrow set of status-quo-abiding behaviors and beliefs". Successful lawyer Tom Dubois needs to act a very specific kind of white; he can't act like any of the Wunclers (especially not the one who "acts black"), or like a redneck, or anything like that. The criticism against him doesn't seem to be that he's a Category Traitor, but that he's fettered, impotent, and perpetually insecure.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_ac03a2dd	comment	Little Shop of Horrors: The creators of this off-Broadway musical have said that it is about how "power, greed, and the pressure of capitalism to corrupt" society as represented by the Audrey II plants claiming to offer fame and fortune in exchange for being fed human blood. The 1986 film based on the musical makes it Lighter and Softer by downplaying this message and omitting the ending of the musical in which The Audrey II plants grow out of control and consume everyone in the city of Skid Row, New York and with the rest of the world eventually following in this fate.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_afbade25	comment	Bioshock 2: By contrast, the new tyrant Sophia Lamb is a self-proclaimed collectivist, who seized power by organizing a cult of disenfranchised ex-capitalists while she was waiting in prison for Ryan to finally die. Instead of selling the genetic modification drugs everyone has been fighting over, her master plan is to experiment with them until she can transform her daughter into an Ãœbermensch, an ultimate lifeform meant to rule the world. In this case, it is less about what Capitalism does in charge, and more about what non-capitalist rulers can do with capitalism; Lamb is completely hostile to the concept of capitalism, but she has stolen the corporations' means of production, and is using their product in her grand, dangerous, and unethical science experiment.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_b2afdc9d	comment	Chronicles of Darkness: Mage: The Awakening: Capitalist ideology is a tool of the Chancellor, an evil god of wealth and scarcity. Its ultimate goal is a world of venal materialists who treat everything, including other people, as commodities and can be easily controlled through their own greed. Changeling: The Lost: The Pearl Satraps are a Changeling Prestige Class who operate on the simple belief that everything can be bought and sold. Their Oathbound Powers require them never to turn down an offer for trade — the heinousness of the offer merely adjusts their asking price.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_b3f3b0b7	comment	Dyztopia: Post-Human RPG: Zetacorp, the leading corporate power of the nation known as the Sovereign State of Zeta, treats the impoverished terribly by bribing the Church of the Vessel to exclude their communities from protection from demons. The son of President Zazz, Detritus, notes that there are many homeless people despite the country having enough money to house them, and wonders why the government would be so inefficient on this issue. Crow's bonding events imply that the real reason for enforcing poverty is to force more people to work for Zetacorp as Hunters if they want to survive. Zazz also conquered Vulcanite not because he needs their resources, but to deny the people access to these resources and hold their power plant hostage to control them, showing the imperialistic tendencies of capitalism. Finally, Zazz's endgame is to create an apartheid state where humans reign supreme over non-humans, and capitalism is his tool for enforcing this hierarchy by forcing non-humans into poorer areas. The insurance company, Mine Co, recommends a painkiller known as Pix, but they use their connections to make sure it's overprescribed so that people get addicted to it even if they don't need it, all to make a profit. They then sell additional medicine for the symptoms of Pix, making money off the problem they created.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_b712435c	comment	Leverage: The tagline is literally "The rich and powerful take what they want. We steal it back for you.'' The Leverage crew is not above working within capitalism to subvert its negative effects, but many fans have interpreted the show as having an anti-capitalist message. One episode, "The Low Low Price Job" has a pro-union message.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_c2b149a1	comment	American Psycho is about very young investment bankers that live a carefree, extremely boring life while putting on a faÃ§ade of work. Their entire existences revolve around status symbols like designer clothes, expensive watches, and getting reservations in highly fashionable restaurants. They are so conformist and same-looking that they keep confusing each other for others. The protagonist uses his money, his resources, his connections, and his anonymity to brutally abuse and murder people, especially of the Disposable Sex Worker and Disposable Vagrant types (probably).
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_c353ea41	comment	Jurassic Park: In Jurassic Park (1990), the entire disaster is caused both by Hammond's efforts to cut costs and corporate espionage to secure intellectual property rights. The Lost World (1995) plays with this, with a nice business owner being a main character, but the evils of InGen still being explored.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "Oxygen" is set aboard the mining space station Chasm Forge, controlled by an unnamed corporation that maintains control of the oxygen supply by only allowing it within employees' personal space suits and vents any unauthorized oxygen into space in order to "keep prices competitive", and which is prepared to execute its own workers because their mining operation has stopped being profitable. The Doctor makes numerous derogatory comments about capitalism and the idea of controlling the oxygen supply for profit throughout the episode, and at the end alludes to the fact that what occurred aboard Chasm Forge will one day spark a revolution that will cause intergalactic capitalism to collapse... until humanity finds another great mistake, but that's another story.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_c51cb60a	comment	Changeling: The Lost: The Pearl Satraps are a Changeling Prestige Class who operate on the simple belief that everything can be bought and sold. Their Oathbound Powers require them never to turn down an offer for trade — the heinousness of the offer merely adjusts their asking price.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_ca08598f	comment	The Wire: David Simon has said mysterious smuggling kingpin The Greek represents capitalism, as an amoral force willing to change allegiance to pursue whatever pays best for the least trouble. Similar commentary can be seen with Stringer Bell and his attempts to turn the drug game to work more like corporate America, and Marlo Stanield, who very similar to The Greek is motivated by money and personal power without regard to others, including business partners. In the fifth season, The Baltimore Sun is reeling under a acquisition, where the new bosses lay off most of the senior reporters and tell the remainder to "do more with less". One understated Greater-Scope Villain of the series is real estate developer Andy Krawczyk, whose urban renewall is driving working class people out of their old neighborhoods, and turning old but still usable industrial infrastructure into condominiums.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_cb1e7bad	comment	The Girl From Monday: The film takes aim at the drive to commodify things, having a monopolistic corporation ruling a future US determined to turn a profit off everything imaginable.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_d53b9238	comment	Judas takes 21st-century capitalism to an extreme. An entire colony spaceship has been turned into a giant theme park, with the workers buying into social media while pretending their sub-standard way of life is paradise just because it keeps the lights on. Instead of corporations selling faulty and dangerous products, the employees are the product, suckered into selling their souls for bland, bare-effort T-shirts, and brainwashed to mindlessly worship the CEOs of the three ruling corporations. And unfortunately, this game also portrays the potential side-effects of AI capitalism; AI was so utterly profitable that the corporations eventually gave their central AIs full control. When the protagonist finally snapped, she tried to sabotage the ship's mainframe to destroy the corporations' power - which accidentally drives all of the ship's AIs insane at once, from the worker drones to the piloting systems.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park, a series with an admittedly Libertarian-leaning, tends to invert this trope whenever it should crop up: The series averts this (or, at the very least, downplays it) in Gnomes. The episode presents Harbucks Coffee as a company, like any other, that started out small, but because of positive quality, was able to grow into a powerhouse corporation. The executive running the place isn't even evil; he's just forced to resort to petty tactics to compete with small-business owner Mr. Tweak, who manipulates the minds of the general public (many of whom already don't trust corporations) into taking his side. A Very Crappy Christmas argues that (even if the town mayor is the one pushing it) the blatant and overdrawn commercialism of the Christmas season is what makes it so special. Without it, the holiday season either passes by without notice, or becomes all about peace, love, and togetherness. Which is boring. This trope is also played with, but ultimately subverted, in Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes. While the newly-opened superstore Wall-Mart is portrayed as a sapient Eldritch Location that exists only to corrupt and devastate towns across the country economically and socially (to the point of turning South Park into a ghost town, and driving its regretful creators to suicide), the physical personification of the store itself admits greed and desire is what keeps it alive and prosperous; in other words, capitalism isn't inherently the villain, but a lack of personal responsibility and blind consumerism is. This apparently goes over the heads of the adults, who come to this conclusion, but in trying to support a small, mom-and-pop store, end up turning it into a successful corporation, which they decide to burn to the ground. Despite the subversion, South Park did show the Full-Circle Revolution nature of businesses, which were shown with the underhanded tactics of Tweak's coffee store and Randy's utilization of Amazon-esque online delivery for his marijuana farm before taking over other family farms and murdering Winnie The Pooh just to be a sole Marijuana distributor in China. As the show has shown that the small businesses would one day become the mega-corporation (or become dominant in general) and eventually planning a stranglehold against the same businesses that it once belongs to. South Park's stance could be more accurately described as "rent-seeking is bad." If a business is a villain, it's typically not because it sells products to try to make money, but because it attempts to lobby local government to help stamp out the competition. Tweak and Randy are both guilty of this. Ditto the cab drivers in "Handicar", who attempt to spend resources trying to shut Handicar down, instead of attempting to compete fairly by making their own product better (a thinly veiled parody of the how the ride-sharing tech company Uber has experienced backlash from local European governments being lobbied by taxi unions).
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_dd3fe595	comment	Atlas Shrugged seems like an unintentional example in a very different way than the others on this list: billionaires that also happen to be geniuses go on strike, taking all their technology and trade secrets with them, resulting in mass death, chaos and starvation throughout the USA. She portrays them as justified in doing so, though, as up until that point they had to work under intrusive regulations that not only kept them from getting anything productive done but are being manipulated by hypocritical politicians and Corrupt Corporate Executives to line their own pockets at the expense of those willing to do honest work, whether rich or poor.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_ddd4b174	comment	Monopoly is a classic example, by portraying capitalism as inevitable wealth inequality. Capitalism there progresses by the accumulation of wealth in fewer and fewer hands, and the progressive and inevitable bankruptcy of each player, and that the winners owe much more to chance than to strategy or personal industry. Also worth mentioning that the original creators of the game said that criticism of the contemporary laissez-faire that existed when it was originally released was its intention. Though people who did not live through the Great Depression tend only to see Monopoly as an escapist game about being able to fantasize about being wealthy businessmen.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_df57aa2a	comment	The LEGO Movie: This trope is played with. President/Lord Business, whose name by itself invokes this trope, has several posters/screens emphasizing obeying President Business (particularly buying products made by his company), as well as the surprising suppression of creativity, or then at least his standards of perfection. The city of which Emmet is a resident of are portrayed as sheeple who blindly accept such a plutocratic society, which would be consistent with Socialist and other Anti-capitalist propaganda. However, it is actually invoked in-universe by Finn, of which Mr. Business is an Expy of his father (AKA The Man Upstairs) and is a criticism of the latter stifling the former's creativity due to conflicting with Finn's father's perfectionist ideals.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_e8970723	comment	Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom also plays with this, with dinosaurs being captured and sold to corrupt crime lords for million.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_eb85cc4e	comment	American Psycho much like the book it was based on.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_ebffc81f	comment	Mage: The Awakening: Capitalist ideology is a tool of the Chancellor, an evil god of wealth and scarcity. Its ultimate goal is a world of venal materialists who treat everything, including other people, as commodities and can be easily controlled through their own greed.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_ec6b71cf	comment	Rage Against the Machine: A staple of many of their protest songs.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_ed422d3f	comment	The Most Epic Story Ever Told in All of Human History: A running theme through the series, directly called out by Epic-Man himself on most occasions, though other characters arrive at similar conclusions through their experiences too.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_eded0e44	comment	The Lorax (1972), heavily based on the book of the same name expands the narrative of the story. An entrepreneur named the Once-ler finds the Truffula Trees and begins hacking them down. He uses the tufts to create "Thneeds", a thing that is considered the most useful thing you could ever buy. The Lorax, a small orange creature, emerges from the trees to tell the Once-ler to stop cutting down the trees and destroying the environment, but the Once-ler defends his actions as creating a product, creating jobs, creating industry, and if he didn't... well clearly someone would do so anyways, right? The Once-ler is not treated as an out-and-out villain, just a business man who doesn't care about the damage he's doing because he sees it as "progress" and society praises him for it... until the last Truffula Tree is cut down. Because of the long time it takes to replant, his industry is now bust. In the current day, the Once-ler lives in a tall shack on the edge of town, lamenting his lack of foresight and dissapointment in himself, giving a seed to a young boy in hopes to inspire the next generation to do better than he did.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_ee384546	comment	Cyberpunk 2077: Exaggerated trope by design. Ridiculously violent advertisements plaster every wall, mountains of garbage litter the city and its landfills, the environment is a wasteland due to unchecked exploitation and frequent nuclear wars, the local gangs are funded by corporations to keep the streets poverty-stricken and disorganized, and politicians have completely bent the knee to corporate interests.note The only politician in the game willing to show a spine has been brainwashed, potentially by rampant AI. The series makes it clear that mega-corporations stopped being about 'greed' a long time ago, and became altars of worship for cruelty, slavery, and sheer narcissistic pride. If there's something both short-sightedly 'profitable' and a crime against humanity that generally enslaves people in the long run, it will be in this game. The corpos don't want more; they want all, and they're willing to burn the world down (through literal brainwashing) to rule over the ashes.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_eef5470a	comment	Rurouni Kenshin: An early incident delves into this with the conflict against Kanryu Takeda. Kanryu is an "entrepreneur" who has learned about western capitalism and seeks to spread it about in the setting of Meiji-era Japan. The business he runs specializes in opium, which has had a detrimental effect on the local area but nonetheless, Kanryu has profited and thus continues to provide it to meet the demand to make himself wealthier. In addition, he treats his employees Megumi Takani (his chief Opium maker) and the Oniwaban group with no shred of dignity and even attempts to kill all of the latter with a Gatling gun just so he could kill Himura Kenshin (who at this point was seeking, along with his friends, to rescue the kidnapped Megumi when she sought to escape to turn her life around) in the process.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_f2dae15e	comment	Desperate Acts Of Capitalism doesn't state this outright, exactly — but it does just about everything short of. The show chronicles the foolish, bizarre, unethical, and illegal things that companies do in their attempts to make money — as well as depicting how often those attempts crash and burn spectacularly.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_f8956ef3	comment	YuYu Hakusho: Capitalism is indirectly examined in the form of the unfettered self-interests of morally corrupt businessmen, known as the Black Book Club, to use demons to benefit themselves at the demons' expense. During the Dark Tournament arc, demons fight against each other in order to get a wish granted by the Human ran committee and to entertain their immoral human sponsors as they casually gamble large amounts of money. When the human businessmen aren't gathering them for the Dark Tournament, they summoned (via human psychics), captured, and bought demons to be kept as slaves (of whom some female demons are implied to be kept as Sex Slaves). One businessman in particular, Gonzo Tarukane (the founder of the aforementioned Club), kidnapped the innocent snow maiden Yukina due to her tears producing rare jewels and tortured her physically and emotionally to get them and sell them. In the absolute worst case, the Black Book Club tortured and slaughtered the demons in their possession to bathe in their blood as part of the Festival of Vices to entertain themselves. In the succeeding Chapter Black arc, Shinobu Sensui used all of the aforementioned actions that occurred via capitalism to make his case as to why Humans deserved to be destroyed off the face of the earth.
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Capitalism Is Bad / int_f8eaad5b	comment	The titular Charles Foster Kane of Citizen Kane is a deconstruction of the ideal American businessman, who genuinely wants to use his money well and help the working class, but is endlessly frustrated by a system that makes real change impossible. His desire to help is also called out as patronizing, and the idea of the working class helping itself by organizing is held up as a positive alternative. The film ultimately concludes that success under capitalism is corrupting, as Kane remarks that he "could have been a great man if [he] wasn't so rich" and the ending reveals that Kaneâ€™s last moment of true happiness was a boy living in a run-down shack in the Colorado wilderness before he inherited the fortune that led him on the road to fame and wealth.
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The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
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Mage: The Awakening (Tabletop Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Assassins (Theatre) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Faust: Second Part of the Tragedy (Theatre) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Little Shop of Horrors (Theatre) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Merrily We Roll Along (Theatre) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
The Pillars of Society (Theatre) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
The Threepenny Opera (Theatre) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Arknights (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Assassin's Creed Syndicate (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Atomic Heart (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Big Sky Trooper (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Blaseball (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
BOSSGAME: The Final Boss Is My Heart (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Chernobylite (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Citizen Sleeper (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Cruelty Squad (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Disco Elysium (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Dungeons 3 (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Dyztopia: Post-Human RPG (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Helldivers (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Horizon (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Kentucky Route Zero (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Kirby: Planet Robobot (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Liberal Crime Squad (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Limbus Company (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Metro 2033 (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
No Delivery (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Oddworld (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Shakedown: Hawaii (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Sorry, We're Open (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Star Fetchers (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Stray (2022) (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
The Fire Rises (Mod) (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
The New Order: Brave New World (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
The Outer Worlds (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
The Stanley Parable (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Zombidle (Video Game) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Stardew Valley / Videogame / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
A Light In The Dark (Visual Novel) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Psycholonials (Visual Novel) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Save the World (Visual Novel) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Shining Song Starnova (Visual Novel) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Overly Sarcastic Productions (Web Animation) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Civvie 11 (Web Video) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Cold Take (Web Video) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Drawtectives (Web Video) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Epic Rap Battles of History (Web Video) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Furry Found Footage (Web Video) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
H.Bomberguy (Web Video) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
ITV in the Face (Web Video) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Jessie Gender (Web Video) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Jimquisition (Web Video) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Jojo.png - The Polnareffland Saga (Web Video) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Jreg (Web Video) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Munecat (Web Video) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
NearChris (Web Video) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Real-Time Fandub (Web Video) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Renegade Cut (Web Video) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
I'm the Grim Reaper (Webcomic) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Lovely People (Webcomic) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Shaderunners (Webcomic) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
V The Vampire Vigilante (Webcomic) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Atlantis: The Lost Empire / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Metalocalypse / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Neo Yokio / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Praise Petey / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Super Mario World (1991) / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
The Further Adventures Of Uncle Sam / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
The LEGO Movie / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad
Atlas Shrugged / int_8b60a09b	type	Capitalism Is Bad

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