A capitalistic paradise: make a sound (like, for example, "trade union" or "wage raise" or "workers' rights") and you get killed

Rating: Null/10 (12 April 2018)

According to a certain report, there are 42 individuals today in this world who hold as much wealth as 3,7 billion people around the globe together. And in the USA alone there are only three - Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett - who have as much wealth as 160 million of fellow citizens. So, what do we see in the movie? We see that there are presumably only three monsters that terrorize the land, a county which population seems to be drastically decimated, but reports show that the world at large fared even worse. It looks like there are very few humans left altogether.
Now, many have argued that this is nonsensical. How could a bunch of blind, unintelligent, and basically very primitive and vulnerable monsters have wiped out almost the entire humanity? How could there not have been anyone, not even the many governments and their militaries with all their subsidized industry, who would figure out the means to counter the monsters and destroy them? Why have the survivors so readily complied to their new ways of living in fear, scarcity, limitation, and imminent death?
The question, however, should be posed differently. What if it's not fear and brutality and scarcity that the survivors live in, but the other way around: what if this is exactly the kind of world that brings them happiness, joy, fulfillment, and stability? True, the monsters are brutal, dangerous, and malevolant, but there are so few of them. And it turns out they are not as death-proof as people around the world seem to have taken for granted. Yet, they, those very few monsters, have managed to kill off entire populations without anyone actually trying to revolt against them, to strike back. So the people must have felt happy about the occupation by the monsters? They only needed first to figure out some basic rules - one of them being "Do not make a sound" -, and everything could be as perfect as ever.
In the real world of today, there are 42 individuals who have as much wealth as 3,7 billion (billion!) of humans on the planet together. And 3 individuals in the USA whose wealth equals to that of 160 million of other people together. Yet, everything seems to be as perfect as ever. No-one objects. No-one revolts. No-one strikes back. Billions against 42, millions against 3, yet the math doesn't work the usual way. It's not the millions and billions that outnumber 3 and 42, but the other way around. So, which is then more illogical: the real world where 42 individuals outnumber billions of individuals, and 3 that outnumber millions, or the movie where 3 monsters hold sway of the whole country?
The movie presents a perfect vision of a capitalistic paradise. Firstly, you're not allowed to speak, to make yourself heard (you can do it only when there are louder sounds around that subdue your own - the sounds of sweatshop factories of Apple, Microsoft, Nike etc.). Secondly, you're not allowed to walk anywhere except as designated, a narrow path through abundant woods and fields - you are only leasing your living ground from the 'entities', the 'powers that be' (oil pipelines through the land of Native Americans). And thirdly, the ripe crops in front of your nose are not for you to reap and eat (a Monsanto lawyer will claim the crop belongs to the company whose GMOs have been found in your fields which means you have violated their patent rights). It's a capitalist's heaven! Try and make a noise, and you're eaten alive in no time! But you can still have a baby. Those billions of people around the world still decide to have babies, don't they? So, why is there such an outcry against the characters in the movie who decide to give birth to another human being into this world? Is it because the world into which they'd bring this new human is so atrocious? Is that so? With only 3 monsters roaming around? The real world of today in which the billions are living is clenched in the fists of 42 individuals. And no-one seems to mind.
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