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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I have some big issues with the final Dr Strangelove scene.
For one, big companies don’t like competition at all, Amazon should know all about that.
For another, once the bombs fall, the sales stop. You can’t tell me vault life would be preferable to their current ultra-billionaire lifestyle.
For a third, none of the people in that room would be even remotely hurt if their companies folded. That only applies to small business owners, not billionaires.
So they have zero incentive to drop the bombs. That’s just ridiculous.
fishpen0@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Unless wealth is just their means to feel in control. All the wealth in the world apparently can’t stop war from happening and someone else being able to nuke them means they have to face the reality that they are not in control of all things. Vault tec gives them the psychological out of not facing their own lack of control by telling them they get to drop the bomb and control the vaults. If they drop the bomb, they take control back from chaos.
brlemworld@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They also did social experiments in each of the vaults. It’s kinda more like the books/TV show Wool/Silo.