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> a selfish way of milking poor people for emotions in order to generate income. Monsters, Inc. comes to mind! In that movie they are scaring children, bottlin
by jazzyjackson 3y ago
> a selfish way of milking poor people for emotions in order to generate income.
Monsters, Inc. comes to mind! In that movie they are scaring children, bottling their screams as energy and selling it as a commodity. The happy ending is our protagonists stumbling upon the fact that laughter is a much better source of energy than screams, and so the staff of monsters become slapstick comedians for children everywhere.
YouTube managed to become the boring-dystopia middle-ground where they make money off both.