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Author: TheHandle

Oct 12th 2014 at 11:22:47 AM

Nah, I think it's a great title. Pithiness comes at the price of clarity. A lot of the examples involve "crony capitalism" where the government and money elites cooperate at the expense of everyone else, which [[NoTrueScotsman conservatives would argue not to be legitimate, properly-free-market capitalism]]. FlawedCapitalism would be less controversial. But PlutocratsPissingOnThePoor is what most if not all examples boil down to, and is a lot simpler to point out. In SnowCrash, "capitalism" may or may not be criticized, but plutocrats most ''definitely'' are pissing on the poor. Plus, AddedAliterativeAppeal.

* In ''Comicbook/SinCity'', Basin City is terribly corrupt and in the hands of a minority of political and economical elites, especially the Rourke family, who use their power to get away with regular [[KickTheDog dog-kicking]] so [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil base]], so [[SlidingScaleOfAntagonistVileness vile]], so [[CompleteMonster monstrous]], they don't even know what a MoralEventHorizon ''is''. They get away with most of it, too, until eventually the working-class, downtrodden, impoverished underdog {{Anti Hero}}es defeat or murder them.