Seriously Disney, What The Heck?

[bazooka_beak]

I want to go to Disney World in two years... I hope things are better by then :/ Disney makes so much money it's not like they couldn't afford to take a few falls... they have a cash cow FARM. Raising prices and cutting jobs just makes things worse. A few years ago I was in a Disney World giftshop and the prices for the most ordinary things were ridiculous. $80 for an ugly, could-get-at-Target-for-$9.99 bathing suit?

 

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Maybe I'm idealistic, heh, but we can't complain about the current state of things but then say we just have to let the system keep working. Major upheavals have occured in history, but only through sacrifice. I don't mean sacrifice of ideals, but some kind of going without.

Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you - who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these...machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men.

If any form of pleasure is exhibited, report to me and it will be prohibited. I'll put my foot down, so shall it be! This is "the land of the free!"

Again, idealistic perhaps, hehe. But if we don't want idealism, maybe Disney and everybody else should stop making movies.

 

[frogboy4]

Maybe I'm idealistic, heh, but we can't complain about the current state of things but then say we just have to let the system keep working. Major upheavals have occured in history, but only through sacrifice. I don't mean sacrifice of ideals, but some kind of going without.

Again, idealistic perhaps, hehe. But if we don't want idealism, maybe Disney and everybody else should stop making movies.

Idealism is great, but few people are likely to join a revolution if it results in higher prices for goods and services. Most people shy away from the unpleasant. That's human nature. Working against the grain should be the last option after everything else has been attempted. People are driven by incentive. The answer to all these problems isn't revolution or sacrifice - it is incentive. A spoonful of sugar!

 

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The answer to all these problems isn't revolution or sacrifice - it is incentive. A spoonful of sugar!

I don't think you're incorrect. Incentive has been used too. Yet the system remains flawed. It always needs to be shacken up at different points in history. We'll see what happens.

And I still say, we can't enjoy these movies and entertainment, but then say their messages are too idealistic. Artists in theory aren't there just to entertain us, but to inspire (yes even in a Capitalistic society ).