This is just Prime Video and Apple TV. Fallout and Severance are great shows that shit on capitalism, but they’re made by two of the most capitalist companies out there.
Better Off Ted is probably my favorite TV show in terms of poking fun at corporate culture. Not only was it prematurely canceled, but the last three (or so) episodes never aired. They eventually released on DVD, so at least they’re not lost media or anything, but it makes me wonder if someone just really wanted that show off the air.
EDIT: As an example, these fake “commercials” were interspersed throughout the episodes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF3of5VRcNA
EDIT 2: May as well post these random jokes from the series
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Awesome show. Another show I liked, but with a different tone, was Corporate. They had some amazing episodes in their 3 seasons.
I loved that show.
“Your white guy does all that stuff for you?”
“Yeah. He’s great.”
“Can we trade white guys?”
Side splitting gags in the middle of a pretty solid message about how technology can systemicly abuse people.
“Apparently if we continued with our hiring plan, we would end up employing the sum total of humanity, and I guess doing that is illegal in some of the countries Viridian operates in, so they had to give in and actually fix the problem.”
“It’s the same as mine”
We are a million bazillion years old.
And every individual in your household used the same phone line
We JUST started watching Ted Lasso, and I was delighted to see Linda from Better Off Ted!
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Yuuup. And this is why amazon and apple don’t get any of my currency units.
Don’t forget Andor. Possibly the strongest piece of leftist media in a long time, and made by Disney of all things.
Panem et circenses
One of my favorites is any place selling a Che Guevara shirt
Man what an excellent fucking quote
What is that from, is it disco Elysium? (Never played it, the art style just kinda feels like what I remember disco Elysium looking like in)
Yep! Good catch!
Fuckin love seeing DE references in the wild.
Incidentally, the studio behind it was also taken over by capitalists via some trickery
Which means it’s completely moral to pirate it despite it being an indie game originally. Those who made it wouldn’t get a cent if someone buys it anyway
Oh I remember! ZA/UM strong-armed the creators out of the IP so now they encourage people to pirate it. And it’s extremely easy to find!
Considering the game is available DRM-free on GOG, it should be easy to find an installer somewhere.
The founders of the company won’t get a cent, but the coders and the people who labored to create the game are still there and would benefit from it.
So if you want to be anti-capitalist, pirate it, but if you want to support the people who labored to create it, buy it.
Here’s the thing. When you pirate something, the money you would’ve paid, but didn’t, to the company would have gone to the company profits.
See that, I said profits, not employee salary, profits.
The people who made the game, were already paid, while they were making it. Unless there’s some sort of revenue share agreement, or the workers are unionized to receive compensation on exceptional performance of products, or the workers partially own the company thus receive part of the profits every year, then none of your money will go to the developers. Literally not a cent. Companies who make record profits have massive layoffs of thousands of developers, you know why? Because employment and pay are decoupled from revenue. All the money goes into pockets that had no involvement on the creation of the game. The game they are working on right now, is not being paid by the revenue, but by investors, who are gambling on the next game’s revenue. The developers will be paid or fired, regardless of how much money old games make.
So, when you pirate a game, no one goes hungry. No one runs out of healthcare. People laid off from their work will go hungry or lose their healthcare regardless of how much money the game they coded makes (some even would point out that the highest record breaking games usually come from the studios with the worst layoffs). They were already paid, there’s no more money to go from you to them in the current capitalist scheme. This is why it is always moral to pirate a game made by a mega corporation (or owned by one), it’s reclamation.
“Hey, those Anarchists have a cool “A”, how about some t-shirts?”
The entertainment industry has doing that for over a hundred years.
Wall-E and others are capitalist propaganda.
Sure, they say the right things, and then you feel inspired, like you actually did something, and then you go out and buy the billions in plastic merch anyway.
Saw Toy Story 5 recently. Tech is the “bad guy.” Unless, of course, you use it responsibly. So don’t worry about the data centers powering AI om the tablets.
This reminds me of something I sometimes see in shows on like Netflix and other media. I can’t remember a specific example, but you often have generic anti-capitalist comments from characters (often portrayed as edgy). It often feels a bit, artificial, like a “fellow kids” moment but politically, I guess? Like activism as a prop / character trait, inserted into a multi-million media production. Maybe someone else can better put it to words, if I had more time I would’ve written a shorter comment
Some would probably call stuff like that “woke”, but maybe “performative” or “pandering” would be slightly less politically charged.
You’re too late.
Lol, I’m very curious to know why someone would buy a shirt that says “Corporate Greed”
4 bucks cheaper, duh
Everyone loves a deal!
To represent corporate greed in an avant garde political satire?
Chaotic neutral
I dunno, feels more like lawful evil to support corporate greed lol.
Gatta play both sides, baby!
Haha yeah, I was literally talking about this with a friend earlier.
The corporations (at least in Canada) have successfully managed to monetize KINDNESS. That’s what tipping culture is!!! Reduce base pay like anything, because “hey, people are kind- they’ll donate the rest of that wage we reduced anyway”.
Capitalism is incompatible with a functioning society.
The manager of Elvis Presley sold “I hate Elvis” buttons. So yes, that is definitely a thing and older than you might think.
Pitchfork sales are up
Note: Hasan Piker is currently on the front page of twitch.tv which is owned by Jeff Bezos.
Be sure to check out Hasan’s line of anti-corporate greed at his personal merch store at https://ideologie.shop/
It sounds like “ideology”, so you know when you buy this merch, you’re supporting socialism or whatever!
Honestly some of the worst design I’ve seen. Looks like a pop-up store that would disappear within a week in DUMBO.
Thats how you get products that build their marketing around the idea that consumerism of “good” products are how you fix the problems.
Which its nice to have products that don’t suck, but I do think it is unhelpful for us to think buying stuff is what will solve the problems, even in cases where people largely respect the companies behind those products (framework, the steam deck, etc)
I’m excited about those kinds of products, but I try not to let myself fall into thinking that buying the right stuff is some kind of meaningful labor that will help fix the world
“Lets blame the corporate corruption on politicians to support anti-establishment candidates thereby slashing our taxes.”
Corporate corruption is redundant!
As long as competition stays high I think corporate scale makes sense for things like logistics, retail, franchises, etc.
As long as competition stays high
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I remember being SO. INTO. Hot Topic when I was like, 13.
Then when I was like 15, figuring out that this is exactly what Hot Topic was. Early lessons in how the world works… 😖
