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* The eponymous \'\'RepoMen\'\' cut up innocent civilians for the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corrupt]] [[MegaCorp corporation]] \
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* The eponymous \\\'\\\'RepoMen\\\'\\\' cut up innocent civilians for the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corrupt]] [[MegaCorp corporation]] \\\"The Union\\\" to repossess bionic organs when their owners default on their payments. The owners are given notice months in advance to make the payments, yet the Union is to blame for trying to reclaim their own property, along with the masses of customers who live and hide underground in fear of them. The most \\\"evil\\\" thing one can say about The Union is their shady loan practices do not make their repo policy all that obvious but it\\\'s not their fault the victims don\\\'t pay what they agreed to pay for their expensive new organs.
** Well, if they go around reclaiming a heart or a lung someone needs to live because they couldn\\\'t make their payment, that\\\'s pretty villainous behavior regardless of how much notice they get. Cooperations killing people because they can\\\'t afford to pay their bills usually falls on the side of immoral.
*** Therein lies the rub: they do give the customers the option of calling an ambulance to leave them on life support without the organ, so their deaths are considered an unfortunate but legal by-product. From a present-day perspective, their actions seem heinous but much of the dialogue suggests in the world \\\'\\\'RepoMen\\\'\\\' takes place in, enforcing rules and agreements no matter how unfair or gory is the only way to [[OrderVersusChaos stave off anarchy]] and people regard the Union as a legitimate entity doing what\\\'s necessary to stay in business, and are no less contemptible than a bank repossessing a car or a house for non-payment. The film\\\'s stance is that organ repossession is wrong but its ok to doom scores of future customers to death by bankrupting the company that makes the organs instead of finding a cost-effective alternative to make organ repossession unnecessary in the first place.
The main character\\\'s boss explicitely tells him to try to make deals in which the customer can\\\'t pay the loans, because the company makes more money on interest and reselling the organs than when the organs are quickly paid off. The company\\\'s business model relies on exploiting dying people, killing them, and bankrupting their families. It\\\'s implied that the company doesn\\\'t need to be this ruthless, they simply \\\'\\\'can\\\'\\\' be.
** Well, if they go around reclaiming a heart or a lung someone needs to live because they couldn\\\'t make their payment, that\\\'s pretty villainous behavior regardless of how much notice they get. Cooperations killing people because they can\\\'t afford to pay their bills usually falls on the side of immoral.
*** Therein lies the rub: they do give the customers the option of calling an ambulance to leave them on life support without the organ, so their deaths are considered an unfortunate but legal by-product. From a present-day perspective, their actions seem heinous but much of the dialogue suggests in the world \\\'\\\'RepoMen\\\'\\\' takes place in, enforcing rules and agreements no matter how unfair or gory is the only way to [[OrderVersusChaos stave off anarchy]] and people regard the Union as a legitimate entity doing what\\\'s necessary to stay in business, and are no less contemptible than a bank repossessing a car or a house for non-payment. The film\\\'s stance is that organ repossession is wrong but its ok to doom scores of future customers to death by bankrupting the company that makes the organs instead of finding a cost-effective alternative to make organ repossession unnecessary in the first place.
The main character\\\'s boss explicitely tells him to try to make deals in which the customer can\\\'t pay the loans, because the company makes more money on interest and reselling the organs than when the organs are quickly paid off. The company\\\'s business model relies on exploiting dying people, killing them, and bankrupting their families. It\\\'s implied that the company doesn\\\'t need to be this ruthless, they simply \\\'\\\'can\\\'\\\' be.
