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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

He didn't want to die, but that didn't stop him from wanting to make more money while undermining his own survival. Basically they were making fun of the self destructive, profit over everything else and infinite growth at all costs philosophy of capitalism and corporate culture. I think the writers' intention was for him to be the personification of capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

And in the end his only regret... was that he had boneitits

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

He kinda tries but his short-sightedness dooms him anyway

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The capitalists will even sell you the rope that hangs them.