I was actually pretty confused about the messaging. Like, okay, Disney and their specific pandering is BS. They’ve done that one before. But then the b-plot seems to be suggesting that people who are anti-capitalist or at least fed up with the billionaires are actually to blame themselves for being lazy and dependant on technology? Really? I get the loss of self-reliance (I guess, considering you can use said technology to look up how to do almost anything, the point seems moot) but then they went into what seems to be class warfare? And I guess I just didn’t get what their stance on that was.
I think they were just mocking that AI would end up replacing skills that we go to college for while real life skills like plumbing, carpentry can’t be replaced.
The gag of them just sitting around and complaining about capitalism was just irony.
i think its “i hate amazons owner and actions” everyone still uses amazon anyway. The handimen provided a service everyone uses got super rich to the point they dont give a shit about anything and fucked off to space jerk off races and everyone still continues to use them while complaining about them instead of just using something else or doing it themselves.
The joke was that there were lots of elements that have lead to a reduced quality of life and spending power in the college educated middle classes, but everytime they took an easy option to blame, like attacking the educational institutions themselves and finally Kathleen Kennedy got diversifying films.
I think the joke there was not that people IRL who want a fairer economic system are just lazy, I think the joke was that Randy and the other men who couldn’t fix things (you notice, all of them were men–they had women telling them to fix stuff, but women weren’t being shamed for not being able to fix stuff themselves) had expanded the problem of doing handyman tasks to overthrowing the current economic system and starting some kind of revolution rather than just…y’know, buying the washers from the hardware store and learning to use a screwdriver. Because the wider the scope of the “task” got and the more high-effort outlandish things Randy & co did in the name of fixing the oven door and other annoyances, the funnier the joke got.
It’s very, you know. How To Fix An Oven Door, where step #57 is “overthrow the government.” And there definitely wasn’t an easier way to get that oven door fixed.
I was actually pretty confused about the messaging. Like, okay, Disney and their specific pandering is BS. They’ve done that one before. But then the b-plot seems to be suggesting that people who are anti-capitalist or at least fed up with the billionaires are actually to blame themselves for being lazy and dependant on technology? Really? I get the loss of self-reliance (I guess, considering you can use said technology to look up how to do almost anything, the point seems moot) but then they went into what seems to be class warfare? And I guess I just didn’t get what their stance on that was.
I think they were just mocking that AI would end up replacing skills that we go to college for while real life skills like plumbing, carpentry can’t be replaced.
The gag of them just sitting around and complaining about capitalism was just irony.
i think its “i hate amazons owner and actions” everyone still uses amazon anyway. The handimen provided a service everyone uses got super rich to the point they dont give a shit about anything and fucked off to space jerk off races and everyone still continues to use them while complaining about them instead of just using something else or doing it themselves.
You missed the part where Randy blames everything on Katherine Kennedy
The joke was that there were lots of elements that have lead to a reduced quality of life and spending power in the college educated middle classes, but everytime they took an easy option to blame, like attacking the educational institutions themselves and finally Kathleen Kennedy got diversifying films.
I think the joke there was not that people IRL who want a fairer economic system are just lazy, I think the joke was that Randy and the other men who couldn’t fix things (you notice, all of them were men–they had women telling them to fix stuff, but women weren’t being shamed for not being able to fix stuff themselves) had expanded the problem of doing handyman tasks to overthrowing the current economic system and starting some kind of revolution rather than just…y’know, buying the washers from the hardware store and learning to use a screwdriver. Because the wider the scope of the “task” got and the more high-effort outlandish things Randy & co did in the name of fixing the oven door and other annoyances, the funnier the joke got.
It’s very, you know. How To Fix An Oven Door, where step #57 is “overthrow the government.” And there definitely wasn’t an easier way to get that oven door fixed.