Good job on catching the metaphor
shareExcept when you run out of money instead of dying you get the Government (our money) to keep you going.
shareAnd that's a bad thing somehow?
shareDoesn't always work like that. Go ask any of the homeless vets living on the streets or drug addicts trying to get better but cant afford the rehab.
shareExcept it isn't.
We (I live in the uk) have something approaching free market capitalism, which means I can offer services and charge less than someone else if I want.
I can sell a coffee for 2 mins if I want to.
So the film world reflects monopolistic practises and price fixing, which is what was screwing everyone over.
Mind you, I think I would be living in New Greenwich, and if you managed to get out, I would find some legal way to take your time off you and you would have to move back into poor district :)
To fix this world, get rid of the monopolies, and only allow someone else to have a kid when someone else accidentally dies, that way you keep a stable population.
By the way, that coffee was criminally under priced at 4 mins.
I can sell a coffee for 2 mins if I want to.Yes but even in a free market economy you're a slave to inflation. Sure you can sell coffee for 2 minutes if you want but what happens when 2 mins a cup doesn't cover your overheads? I didn't get the impression the coffee sellers were necessarily being greedy rather that their costs were driving up the price.