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Author: TheHandle

Oct 9th 2014 at 3:40:43 AM

Add to the ''Monopoly'' example that Capitalism there progresses by the accumulation of wealth in fewer and fewer hands, and the progressive and inevitable bankruptcy of each player, and that the winners owe much more to chance than to strategy or personal industry.

TheBoondocks should also appear on the WesternAnimation section, and it should be noted that, in the last season, Granndad was driven into prostitution, corpse smuggling, and actual ''slavery'' by his own blind, irresponsible consumerism, and the manipulative usury of his plutocrat landlords, the Wunclers. [[KickTheDog Pissing on the poor]] seems to be [[ItAmusedMe an actual pastime]] of Ed Wuncler's; he once trapped a ''little girl'' into ''wage slavery'' in a ''lemonade stand'', by ''promising her a pony''. All of this [[BlackComedy bleak horror]] is PlayedForLaughs.

I'd also argue that the necessary condition towards upwards mobility isn't "acting white" ("acting black" is perpetually shown to be synonymous with "acting like a damned fool") so much as "affecting a very narrow set of status-quo-abiding behaviours and beliefs". Successful lawyer Tom Dubois needs to act a very specific kind of white; he can't act like any of the Wunclers (especially not the one who "[[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy acts black]]"), or like a redneck, or anything like that. The criticism against him doesn't seem to be that he's a CategoryTraitor, but that's he's fettered, impotent, and perpetually insecure.