Like, Luke Wilson LITERALLY says a version of this out loud at the end of the story. *(a bigger issue is that the film interchangeably uses AAVE and "poor people culture" as signifiers for "stupid" even as it's trying to criticize exploitative conditions)
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Havnt seen Idiocracy Is that the one with
@ScottBakula in it? Or the guy who looks like him but is not him? -
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In terms of whats causing the problems in this reality, I think the morale of the movie is that smart people should have more kids?
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i think a lot of people never made it past that first scene
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Yeah, but it's pretty much presented as only the second best outcome, after the "smart" people failed to have enough kids. It's the stupid vs. smart framing, and the implied eugenicist attitude that bothers me most.
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Yeah, that's why the first and last scenes are about how stupid people will always outbreed the smarties.
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The bigger problem is that it's explicitly eugenecist from the opening scene
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Except its not. It doesn't advocate the choices of the "smart" or "stupid" people, it just sets up a world that satirically examines those choices. A Eugenicist movie would show either a "better world" of "smart" or an incurable dystopia of "stupid", it pointedly does neither.
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When Trump won, I said we elected President Kamacho.
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And yet Camacho was willing to hire a smart guy to fix things
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