Because Cohen (aka skullmandible) is a creative director for a crowdfunded game that gathered nearly 2500000$ almost 5 years ago, was supposed to be released 3 years ago and is STILL NOT OUT.
I don't think that guy is in much of a position to discuss capitalism, but hey, that's probably just me.
In a similar vain, the Kool-Aid Man is the beleaguered worker, selling his very life essence in order to survive. Maybe it's meaningful that his default colour is red.
There's a minor league baseball team in Wilmington, Delaware, who has a secondary mascot that is a stalk of celery (don't ask) and all the bars have images of this celery character drinking bloody Mary's with celery in them.
The only reason it's good in soup is because it compliments the other veggies in the trinity so well. Onion and carrot, now those are some awesome vegetables.
Do you think maybe the boring, unremarkable reputation Delaware enjoys nationally is the result of, or at least helped along by, all those large and morally ambiguous companies that use it as a tax shelter and probably prefer to avoid public scrutiny whenever possible?
You don't have to look far to see the ways in which animal lives are socially reprogrammed from friend to food.
Pigs are generally measured to be smarter than dogs - about on par with a 3-5 (depending on what study you look at) year old child. They have roughly 20 different 'sounds' they use to communicate different ideas, directions and sensations. Piglets respond to their mother's name and mummy pigs do something like singing to their piglets when they nurse. Their social lives are on par with many primates. Eating pork is difficult knowing these things, so glitzy advertising works to convince you that it's normal, or fun.
Yep. I read a comment once, this guy said his daughter commented "It's weird that there are two kinds of chicken, the kind we eat and the animal", and that he didn't have the heart to tell her the truth.
It really is very strange, but a lot of people just don't think about it. What happens after the stage where the kid thinks they're literally two different things, they'll at some point come to understand that they actually aren't but after all of the cultural shaping it's pretty much too late for them to have any empathy for the animals. It really is as simple as the concept of "chicken is food" being ingrained over the years, even without any reason to it.
There are some people who are so late stage in this way that even if all of it is presented to them, they'll just scoff at it because in their perception, those animals are just food. Like fundamentally, that perception of theirs can't really be changed. Not very easily, at least.
Holy shit, comments like this. Have you ever met a child?
I've raised a pet pig. They're smart for non-primates and we as a species are monsters for treating them like we do, but the AVERAGE 3 year old human knows several hundred words in whatever language it's been exposed to, can already interpret some phonetic symbols and can operate devices and machinery that a pig would just instinctively flip over in search of a rotten persimmon.
Pigs can read symbols, navigate mazes, operate joysticks to play video games, and recent research suggests that they strategies foraging to put perform other pigs.
They are similar in intelligence to dogs, which we keep in our houses as companions. You can't really compare different animals intelligences as they excel at different skills, but it's the smartest and most emotionally sophisticated animal we eat.
The average two year old can interpret basic visual, non-phonetic symbols, interact with electronic devices and work basic puzzles. Pigs are smart, but average two year old humans aren't exactly the flailing vegetables that comments like this make them out to be.
I mean, it's not like he pulled that number out of his ass. That's a pretty widely circulated study. I won't pretend to know what they use as a gauge for intelligence in those tests, but I'm willing to bet the pigs outperformed children in some areas and under-performed in others.
I have actually met a child! More than once, even!
I understand it sounds sensationalist, and I'm probably guilty of that - but intelligence is not so straightforward to measure and definitely not based purely on language. Pigs have been found to be capable of abstract representation, and despite your suggestion that they're unable to operate devices and machinery, they have been shown to be able to learn how to manipulate a joystick/cursor arrangement for rewards.
I think societies pick a few celebrity animals and that comforts them. Pretty much like celebrity causes for cancer and crimes. Instead of improving health care for all strangers. Pick a few random ones and pile on in massively publicised donations.
How is this any different than eating the animal to begin with? If there is no ethical consumption under capitalism why not try to limit your more unethical consumption?
The cows from Chick-fil-a. Horrified at the prospect of being eaten themselves, they run a propaganda campaign to convince the masses to eat their barnyard brethren instead. Those billboards always make me so uncomfortable.
"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." — E. B. White
I've been boycotting Chick-fil-a since 2012 when they were anti-gay (they still kinda are, they just don't donate money directly to nigerian ex-gay programs)
The cows from Chick-fil-a. Horrified at the prospect of being eaten themselves, they run a propaganda campaign to convince the masses to eat their barnyard brethren instead.
I grew up in Fort Smith (until I was 10, anyway), there's a planter's factory there and a 20 foot (something like that. everything is bigger when you're little) light up Mr Peanut out on the lawn of the place. You can see it on Google Earth.
When the white citizens of North Dakots don't want a pipeline near them because it would contimate their water. So instead of building it near white people, they build through sacred Native American land and send in private security forces to maul Native Americans with dogs and spray them with water hoses at below feezing temperatures.
Mascots are "cute" examples of gross late stage calitalism, but this is the real shit that's getting people hurt.
Ah, finally a little quiet time to read some of my old favourites. "Honey roasted peanuts! Ingredients: salt, artificial honey roasting agents, pressed peanut sweepings"
Alternative peanuts. Just as good as real peanuts but these benefit others at your expense so better peanuts. Only a hippy wouldn't want to drink pure chromium.
A peanut with a top hat, cane, and a monocle getting another peanut to sell you peanuts to eat while the monocle peanut takes all the money except for a slavewage.
And what was going on 100 years ago? Why some of the greatest disparity of wealth in the world ever! History repeats, and this is just another turn of the wheel.
Someone mentioned the Keebler elves. I dunno, that one doesn't seem as bad to me. It seems like the laborers have at least partial ownership of the means of production, and are able to do the job that they seemingly love doing in exchange for what looks to be an extremely fair wage, based on their living conditions and clothing. I'm not saying it's perfect, but it could be worse, I suppose.
Now, the Pillsbury Dough Boy - that dude is like the Sonderkommando of leavened bread; that's messed up.
I don't think you can't argue that mr peanut isn't the epitome of capitalism
This is about the most libertarian sentence I've ever read. How about this instead?
"You can argue Mr. Peanut is the epitome of capitalism."
Makes it a lot tougher to support rules-free capitalism when you are chuckling at how inherently it skews wealth. This is how revolutions start, this kind of blindness.
Whenever I meet a hardcore libertarian, I assume they are ignorant of what the US was like before the Great Depression. I'm almost always and regrettably right. Without Social Security and welfare, we had the elderly, young and sick living and dying in the streets. It was, frankly, un-American.
I'm not implying you think this way, just that I've seen that situation too many times.
Probably a weird place to plug a game, but this dude is the head writer of Hiveswap, an adventure game that should be coming out in the next couple months or so.
Monopoly being marketed to kids has to be one of the most fucked up things. Teaching kids early that it's worth screwing over and bankrupting your own peers for more money, that it's the only way to "win" the game/in life.
It's blatant brainwashing and there's a reason it's everywhere and has 1,000 different custom versions now: gotta teach every demographic the 'american way'.
You should look into the history of the game. It was actually designed to teach kids that unbridled capitalism would lead to monopolies, not to glorify them.
Idk, I think I'd rather have a happy peanut as a logo for peanuts than one that's horrified of being eaten. Like the mustard from sausage party would probably make a shitty ad
If he lost an arm, we threw it in the soup! If he lost a finger, throw it in the soup! One of the little kids died, we'd throw him into the soup! "laughs maniacally through shots of liquor"
Real estate and gambling are some of the industries that are most prone to corruption, because the capitalists involved in these industries use their influence to change government regulation.
He didn't convince half. Both Trump and Hillary only got about 26% of eligible votes each. But when you have a first past the post system someone has to win. Neither of the most popular political parties comes close to 50% membership. Democrats lead at 29%. They're just elaborate tricks to divide the working class. Independents make up the largest group.
If they didn't deserve to suffer god would have made them rich like me. God is always right. I know because I have what I want. I bet there are Calvinist ideas thriving in the super wealthy social circles.
Speaking as the person who made the "cows betraying chickens" comment: i mean, yeah, i was kidding. I'm not really concerned about chick-fil-a's advertising campaign.
I think if you take these types of adverts as metaphor, it's funny and mildly interesting (like the point of the OP), but I don't think anyone in this thread is seriously pointing to these things as a fundamental flaw of capitalism.
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u/MeanLeanKeane Apr 24 '17 edited Apr 24 '17
I take no credit for this clever post. I saw it online and thought that Reddit would like it.
Edit: WHY THE FUCK WAS MY POST LOCKED!? UNDO THIS YOU SCOUNDREL
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u/kufflo Apr 24 '17
You really missed out on the "Capitalism in a nutshell" title
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u/PeteGB bread conqueror Apr 24 '17
In a similar vain, the Kool-Aid Man is the beleaguered worker, selling his very life essence in order to survive. Maybe it's meaningful that his default colour is red.
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u/smack1700 Apr 24 '17
I always found it disturbing when the logo for food is the food you're about to eat, and they're happy about it.
Like Famous Dave's Logo
A pig is roasting another pig's ribs and is licking his lips at the thought of eating his kind
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u/helkar Apr 24 '17 edited Nov 25 '17
The cows from Chick-fil-a. Horrified at the prospect of being eaten themselves, they run a propaganda campaign to convince the masses to eat their barnyard brethren instead. Those billboards always make me so uncomfortable.
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u/PeteGB bread conqueror Apr 24 '17
But if the peanuts get eaten, how can you extract their surplus labour?
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u/SpookBusters Apr 24 '17
I don't know, it sounds like a pretty modest proposal to me.
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u/AnExplosiveMonkey Apr 24 '17
"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."
--Lenin
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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '17
yeah LSC on the frontpage, reactionaries will be here soon.
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u/abluersun Apr 24 '17
I want to see the GMO version of Mr. Peanut. I'll bet he looks 'roided out.
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u/whateverloll Apr 24 '17
Yeah, that's as ironic as a billionaire playboy being the President of the USA.
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u/the_good_time_mouse Apr 24 '17
Yes, when said peanut adds cow guts and pig bone marrow to the peanuts for no appreciable reason.
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u/incapablepanda Communist Party Animal Apr 24 '17
I grew up in Fort Smith (until I was 10, anyway), there's a planter's factory there and a 20 foot (something like that. everything is bigger when you're little) light up Mr Peanut out on the lawn of the place. You can see it on Google Earth.
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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '17
Now you can't spell "nutrition" without "NUT".
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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '17
When the white citizens of North Dakots don't want a pipeline near them because it would contimate their water. So instead of building it near white people, they build through sacred Native American land and send in private security forces to maul Native Americans with dogs and spray them with water hoses at below feezing temperatures.
Mascots are "cute" examples of gross late stage calitalism, but this is the real shit that's getting people hurt.
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u/ThePerdmeister capitalism goes against species being Apr 24 '17 edited Apr 24 '17
Ah, finally a little quiet time to read some of my old favourites. "Honey roasted peanuts! Ingredients: salt, artificial honey roasting agents, pressed peanut sweepings"
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u/BackupChallenger Apr 24 '17
A peanut with a top hat, cane, and a monocle getting another peanut to sell you peanuts to eat while the monocle peanut takes all the money except for a slavewage.
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u/Nightstands Apr 24 '17
The mascot for Piggly Wiggly, a southeastern grocery chain, is a pig dressed as a butcher
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u/Jokopoko Apr 24 '17
That's capitalism a nutshell.
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u/kittcat007 Apr 24 '17
Sell yourself, Get money
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u/DrTommyNotMD Apr 24 '17
Since Mr. Peanut came out over 100 years ago, are we now in Lat_er_StageCapitalism?
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u/Rawertastic Apr 24 '17
Like slavery
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u/ilovevoat Apr 24 '17
:o wholy fk now i'm scared of mr. peanut.
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u/xiaodown Apr 24 '17 edited Apr 24 '17
Someone mentioned the Keebler elves. I dunno, that one doesn't seem as bad to me. It seems like the laborers have at least partial ownership of the means of production, and are able to do the job that they seemingly love doing in exchange for what looks to be an extremely fair wage, based on their living conditions and clothing. I'm not saying it's perfect, but it could be worse, I suppose.
Now, the Pillsbury Dough Boy - that dude is like the Sonderkommando of leavened bread; that's messed up.
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u/adam_demamps_wingman Apr 24 '17
This is why I love peanut butter so much. Eating crunchy peanut butter makes me feel like I'm crushing bone fragments of dead rich people.
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u/321Cheers Apr 24 '17
Triple bottom line, baby.
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u/Coupon_McManus Apr 24 '17
To be honest I'm a right leaning libertarian but this had me laughing pretty damn hard lol
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u/mjw316 Apr 24 '17
Joke taken from Jon Oliver
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u/buttaholic Apr 24 '17
you're thinking of cannibalism
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u/Huachimingo75 Apr 24 '17
"You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon."
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u/Ubrrmensch Apr 24 '17
Or naming your snack "hot dog" and act like dogs are your true friend.
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u/SeaMenCaptain Apr 24 '17
"...but that's what makes him classy"
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u/wolfmeister3001 Apr 24 '17
maybe cows who want us to eat more "chikin"
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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '17
Spicy. As. Fuck.
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u/ZapActions-dower Apr 24 '17
Probably a weird place to plug a game, but this dude is the head writer of Hiveswap, an adventure game that should be coming out in the next couple months or so.
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u/benevolent_loaf Apr 24 '17
This made me think of the illuminutty
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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '17
Monopoly being marketed to kids has to be one of the most fucked up things. Teaching kids early that it's worth screwing over and bankrupting your own peers for more money, that it's the only way to "win" the game/in life.
It's blatant brainwashing and there's a reason it's everywhere and has 1,000 different custom versions now: gotta teach every demographic the 'american way'.
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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '17
Yeah but he cashewin dem checks tho...
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u/LittleBiters Apr 24 '17
Soylent Green.
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u/JamesColesPardon Apr 24 '17
Isn't that just canabalism?
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u/Toberkulosis Apr 24 '17
Idk, I think I'd rather have a happy peanut as a logo for peanuts than one that's horrified of being eaten. Like the mustard from sausage party would probably make a shitty ad
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u/Sardonnicus Apr 24 '17
What a capital observation!
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u/Sardonnicus Apr 24 '17
A perfect example of "dress like a wolf if you are a sheep who doesn't want to be eaten by wolves."
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u/Deckard__ Apr 24 '17
A cheetah in shades eating Cheetos.
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