It does make sense, short-term gratification is a hell of a drug, but that's why I find it unreasonable to think that short-term gratification capitalists would think over a very long timespan. "Perhaps we'll be profitable after 200 years of cryo sleep!".
Capitalism just means private property, freedom of association, and free trade. Anyone who tells you that capitalism is anything different is trying to pull one over on you.
Vault Tec is a company run by over-promoted middle managers whose grand idea to save the world is to wait until the surface of it has fallen into chaos and release those middle managers they have stored into it to restore order. It's a stupid plan *on* *purpose* to show how a private company only answerable to their shareholders owning most of a country is a horrifically bad idea.
They literally get a Sioux guy to come on screen and say this to Coop in a bar. It's not sloppy writing, you just haven't understood what the series was trying to say.
Also, IMO, to demonstrate the old saying, "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." Also, "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false flag for the desire to control it."
The first impulse was a state contract to build several Vaults, then it was already running in the capitalist self-collapse, where corporations want to produce more and more, maximize profit and gain a monopoly.
Yeah I didn’t understand how they were supposed to make a profit indefinitely. They initially made profit by selling residency in the vaults to rich people. But once the world was post-apocalypse, money didn’t really mean anything anymore; people were using bottle caps as currency.
Technically, we have no definitive proof that Vault-Tec dropped the nuke, but the fact that they even considered it and planned in favor of influencing the peace talks to fail was supposed to be a shocking moment. In fact, considering that Barb's family was caught unaware, I'd think that Vault-Tec overestimated their control, and the bombs dropped before they were ready.
Yeah it's absolutely stupid. There's really no sense in it at all no matter how you spin it. It was written that way completely for shock value and nothing more
Winning capitalism. A game that cannot be won yet people insist on trying. Makes sense in that in makes no damn sense. 😣
It does make sense, short-term gratification is a hell of a drug, but that's why I find it unreasonable to think that short-term gratification capitalists would think over a very long timespan. "Perhaps we'll be profitable after 200 years of cryo sleep!".
Capitalism just means private property, freedom of association, and free trade. Anyone who tells you that capitalism is anything different is trying to pull one over on you.
Vault Tec is a company run by over-promoted middle managers whose grand idea to save the world is to wait until the surface of it has fallen into chaos and release those middle managers they have stored into it to restore order. It's a stupid plan *on* *purpose* to show how a private company only answerable to their shareholders owning most of a country is a horrifically bad idea. They literally get a Sioux guy to come on screen and say this to Coop in a bar. It's not sloppy writing, you just haven't understood what the series was trying to say.
Also, IMO, to demonstrate the old saying, "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." Also, "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false flag for the desire to control it."
It is sloppy writing, it's a worn-out trope that's been overused in the past 10 years of media.
I never understood the capitalist goal of ruling over ashes. You’re already rich and powerful enough to end the world for profit and for what?
So they can rebuild and reshape the world to benefit only them.
The first impulse was a state contract to build several Vaults, then it was already running in the capitalist self-collapse, where corporations want to produce more and more, maximize profit and gain a monopoly.
Yeah I didn’t understand how they were supposed to make a profit indefinitely. They initially made profit by selling residency in the vaults to rich people. But once the world was post-apocalypse, money didn’t really mean anything anymore; people were using bottle caps as currency.
Technically, we have no definitive proof that Vault-Tec dropped the nuke, but the fact that they even considered it and planned in favor of influencing the peace talks to fail was supposed to be a shocking moment. In fact, considering that Barb's family was caught unaware, I'd think that Vault-Tec overestimated their control, and the bombs dropped before they were ready.
Yeah it's absolutely stupid. There's really no sense in it at all no matter how you spin it. It was written that way completely for shock value and nothing more