The future society is obviously Capitalist (as it is controlled by corporations), so why would they want to discourage individual effort? Individual effort and competition are essential to the survival of Capitalism.
They should have had the world being ruled by one all powerful collectivist government or something, that would have made more sense.
Individual effort and competition are essential to the survival of Capitalism.
Slightly wrong. They were not Capitalist. They were a complete corporate state. Capitalism means competition. There was no competition. There was no free market. Thoroughout the film they make several references to the destruction of the corporate wars.
They eliminated the competition for the well being of the corporate entity. Therefore individualism was not a good thing. If you merge the bad parts of communism and the bad parts of a corporation, that is what you have in the movie.
i didn't think of it this way, but this makes a lot of sense.
shareI'm not sure it is capitalism as we know it. It seemed that one monolithic corporation was in charge of each commodity; energy, food, etc. No competition, no marketplace. You get what you're given.
shareI'm not sure it is capitalism as we know it. It seemed that one monolithic corporation was in charge of each commodity; energy, food, etc. No competition, no marketplace. You get what you're given.
Just because something is controlled by corporations doesn't mean its capitalist. Or rather, just because something is capitalist it doesn't mean those in control want to encourage more competition. The thing with capitalism is that it is a competion with winners and losers, with no real rules. The 'game' of capitalism can end in an oligarchic, dictatorial, monopolistic freeze, wherein by self interest of those 'capitalist' winners, free competition (capitalism) becomes undesirable. In essence, capitalism destroys itself.
The thing is, the corporations are excellent at hiding their power, the world becomes an image where everybody is supposedly equally in control (because they roughly have the same material things, and have the same chance at winning Rollerball). Therefore, by the image they present of a collectivist society, where you trust and support your ruler, the message that individaul effort is futile, becomes desirable to the elite.
I'd say monopoly not capitalism.
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Dystopian maybe Fascism where the corporations having taken the place of governments. It is anti-capitailist actually... Remember the head man said "the game was designed to demonstrate the futility of individual effort." Capitalism is about competition.. All other forms of government are about how people are dependant on their government to provide for them and guide how they live.
(BTW Facism and Liberalism have more in common in philosophy than capitalism)
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You mistake corporatism for capitalism. Capitalism is metastable. Without some regulation, at minimum in the form of antitrust laws and the like, capitalism produces monopolistic corporations, the aim of which is the subversion of capitalism through the total control of a discrete market.
As for individuality, with rare exceptions, corporate culture is very conformist. The spark that serves as the engine of capitalism is only a threat to the entrenched power and privilege that is valued above all else by the corporate elite.
Jonathan became too big. That made him a threat to the system.
shareThe governments stop fighting wars. The corporations ran everything.
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