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This was the backstory in Robocop (1987), btw. Detroit was going broke so they privatised Detroit police, OCP made the winning bid, then their plan was to repl
by DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
This was the backstory in Robocop (1987), btw.
Detroit was going broke so they privatised Detroit police, OCP made the winning bid, then their plan was to replace expensive human police with cheap-to-run Robot-cops. That’s why the film was satire /first/, Hollywood-action-film second.
Unfortunately I don’t think Paul Verhoven can save us from this...
- verhoven_fan 5y agoI think verhoven has a particular sense of humor and while he himself labels some of his movies satire I think he makes a particular kind of low brow action movie first and foremost. Its more "demolition man" than "a modest proposal". Labelling the whole thing as a Satire and pretending to be above Hollywood audiences is part of his sense of humor imo.
- reedjosh 5y agoBut in that case the government paid a single company for protection. In the private market there will be competition for security services.
- guerrilla 5y agoTwo more fiction stories on the same subject: https://youtu.be/Eo2OQsPDwBI https://youtu.be/Eo2OQsPDwBI and https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertarian-police-department https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...