Nintendo and Disney aren’t evil because they’re cooperations, not people. It’s the people who sit on top of Disney and Nintendo who are either diabolically evil or spineless cowards who want money and power but are too scared to use it for good. Either way, Nintendo and Disney “don’t serve the public interest”.
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cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Now look at who’s running Nintendo (of America). Guy named Bowser. That will never not be funny. (Coincidentally, a guy who hacked one of their consoles and is now essentially a wage slave to them, forced to give up like half his paycheck to them, is also named Bowser.)
Disney and Nintendo are both widely loved companies that have done some very bad things for the world. Maybe the true villains. But, like anything and anyone else, it’s shades of grey, neither of them are completely diabolically evil.
InputZero@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
rikudou@lemmings.world 23 hours ago
You sure? I don’t see any redeeming qualities in Disney nor Nintendo.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
The happiness they bring children counts for something.
rikudou@lemmings.world 16 hours ago
Not in my book. Disney shot Mulan next to a concentration camp, for fuck’s sake.
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
As always, companies aren’t people, they are comprised of people. Not all of these people are diabolically evil. And even then, likely the people making the diabolically evil decisions have some streak in them that’s not diabolically evil.
For example, you can’t honestly say that none of the Disney movies had any positive effect on people. Same with stuff that Nintendo does.
Sure, overall the verdict is “diabolically evil”. But there are positives within the overwhelmingly negative.
rikudou@lemmings.world 20 hours ago
I mean, Mengele had positive effect on medicine, doesn’t make him a bad guy with some redeeming qualities. Same with the people deciding stuff in huge corporations.