The remake of The Planet of the Apes – the apes look real this time – purports to give the backstory of how it is that the world came to be governed by primates while the handful of humans are caged and abused.
The story line is so conventional that you could make it up just sitting there. A private-sector biochemical corporation rushes to test a drug that is supposed to reverse Alzheimer's. It is tested on apes and the drug makes them strangely intelligent. But the same drug unleashes a killer virus among humans. The rest is science-fiction history.
The anticapitalism is so familiar that it is not even as disturbing as it should be. The CEO struts around in super-fancy suits, always in a rush from place to place, and his main job is to look cool and bark at everyone. Several times he snaps that drug development is all about profits. He tells a research scientist (paraphrasing): "Don't talk to me about risk. Develop the drug. Then you get famous and I make money. That's the way it works."
Ah yes, corporate management, as told by the movies.
Then there is the privately owned ape prison where the animals are enslaved in cages before being taken to the laboratory to be pumped full of experimental drugs. They are shocked with electric prods, hit with clubs, fed gruel, and humiliated constantly by the jerk in charge.
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Oh yes, the libtard view of corporations. "Don't talk to me about risk...".
ReplyDeleteProblem with the libtard view is it's completely wrong. The first thing they teach you in business school, is that if your product starts killing your customers, then you will soon be out of customers.
The second thing they teach you is that there's an acceptable level of deaths that occur...so go ahead and develop your product...you can always say "My bad" later.
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ReplyDeleteThere is no such thing as risk free products. You can sell bottled water and there is risk in the product.
From a financial standpoint the corporation must determine their liability exposure from bringing a product to market.
It is done for each and every product on the market....period.
You libtards like to demonize corporations but those corporations that bring us products are your neighbors!
Oh, and by the way. The very worst thing a corporate executive would ever want to say is "my bad". The stock holders (you and me) would throw the guy (or gal) out for placing the company at risk.
That just doesn't happen!
You have a very twisted view of corporate America. You must be a libtard!
Sounds like our stock market and Guantanamo wrote the script...
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