What are some pieces of media where they're clearly trying really hard to avoid saying capitalism is the problem?
What are some pieces of media where they're clearly trying really hard to avoid saying capitalism is the problem?
The Good Place is one example.
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The Good Place was written by the smartest liberals because they started out with a lib approach to moral philosophy and wrote themselves into the corner of "oh shit, there's no ethical consumption under capitalism" and "rehabilitative justice is the only reasonable afterlife".
They get so close, especially toward the end when we are introduced to the liberals who run the good place who are completely fucking useless, and how consumption is tied directly to the evils of capitalism. But then instead of "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" being the moral, it becomes "its complicated now, so we need to change the point system so consuming things doesn't count against you" to absolve liberals of the concerns that indentured servants make their treats. Its a version of "imperialism makes GDP go up, so its good actually". I also refuse to believe that anyone but people from the imperial core would end up in the bad place under their current accounting system. Liberals love flattening the difference between them consuming treats and a worker in the global south.
I loved my first watch of the show, but I can never watch it again because they are all insufferable libs.
is it worth watching?
it's got some pretty good jokes for a sitcom that's so :LIB:. i remember liking the jason bits a lot. there are worse ways to spend your evenings.
The characters and premise are fun and the first few seasons where they're accidentally writing their way to :marx-joker: don't have many cringe takes, on account of the materialism. Gets a bit less good in the later seasons but still tolerable if you watched it that far