The first scene of the new Venom trailer being basically domestic fan fiction is absolutely sending me 😂😂 a bunch of executives at Sony really went “alright well this is weird as shit but it’s what will sell so fine you horny fuckers we’ll give it to you”. See this is what capitalism should be. The invisible hand of the market should tilt toward what the people actually want even if that thing is monster fucking. Imma write an essay on how this is what Adam Smith was actually talking about
Karl Marx failed to consider the monsterfuckers
For centuries historians and economists have disagreed about how to quantify exactly where Marx was incorrect in his prediction that capitalism would fail; or if, perhaps, he was not incorrect about the unsustainable nature of capitalism but rather about the amount of time it would take for the inevitable collapse that may still be on the horizon. Marx’s fatal flaw, we now understand, was his failure to consider the Monster Fuckers, due to pride in his German heritage preventing him from being cool enough to read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and see the truth.
Adam Smith, on the other hand, was born and lived most of his life in Scotland. While on a family excursion to the countryside in his adolescence, he caught a rare glimpse of the Loch Ness Monster and, for the remainder of his years, harboured a secret but burning desire to have sex with it.
In this essay I will