• imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Yeah that’s what I figured. I was just confused because he doesn’t save his own skin like any IRL capitalist would. But if he’s supposed to be a personification of capitalism as a system it makes sense

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      1 year ago

      The thing is that he’s blind to his own upcoming demise.

      He’s not dying of boneitis right now, so he can make a profit and use his money to do something about it when it actually becomes an issue, but in the end, when that happens he’s too late. And to top it all off he curses the boneitis instead of his own mistake of destroying the company making the cure.

      It’s similar to how capitalists will likely react when their homes and lives are destroyed by the byproduct of climate change - it will be the weather’s fault, not theirs for choosing profits over fixing the issue.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, again I didn’t remember the plot of the episode this was from but it makes sense to me now

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      1 year ago

      he doesn’t save his own skin like any IRL capitalist would

      Doesn’t he? After essentially destroying the cure he freezes himself so he can survive.