Fallout: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

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Inon Zur - Main Theme - Fallout: New Vegas

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The issue with the critique of capitalism in this show is that they depict it as moustache twirling, smokey back room evil, when the issue is actually that the incentivization of greed and short term profit is encouraged by how the system is structured and that this STRUCTURE, and the people with the highest financial stake in it remaining as the status quo will ignore long term problems in favour of short term profitability.
It would have been much more appropriate to simply depict price gouging on american citizens in the pre war era, under the guise (or partial guise) of inflation. Gas prices skyrocketed in the pre war era, but how you depict capitalism negatively in that type of example is saying that the actual barrel price of gas did go up, but the oil companies took the opportunity of an inflation wave to quituple their prices so that instead of doubling in price, gas became 5-10x more expensive and they pocketed the difference as profit to show their shareholders. This is totally incentivized under capitalism (only regulations stand in the way of this happening and the pre war fallout america was totally a corproticrasy that wiuld have removed consumer protections) and this leads to increased stock price at the expense not only of crippling transportation in the long term and the ability to conduct war, but also destroying the economies of allied nations, increasing desperation and tensions, and driving the middle class into poverty. The self destructive nature of unregulated capitalism is that it would destroy the consumer's ability to purchase products in the attempt to show perpetual financial growth for stock investors.
This could have easily been shown in the show and been the reason tensions ratcheted up even higher to cause the war. Thats literally one main reason Japan attacked america in ww2, because of the cut off of oil which would have crippled their economy, and it was also a reason why they began exoanding into asia to protect a supply of oil there for themselves.
These type of cynical, encouraged short term goals of corporations could easily begin shifting socioeconomics and cause nations to act irrationally towards an america cutting off their ability to live their lives and seemingly put them into poverty.
Something was going to snap eventually under those conditions.
Vault tec itself is a good example of this. They were just profiting on the paranoia amd creating massive shelters and selling rights to different corporations for social experiments as a means of short term growth. They were riding a fad.
They key to a good critique of capitalism is that its not overtly evil (usually, although some billionaires genuinely are), its that the evil of capitalism is incredibly boring and self defeating. It is a series of short term decisions for whats best for yourself and your investors at the cost of some future time that you dont have to worry about because youre planning to jump to another company before the consequences materialize, and you know that since the economy is vital to the nation, the taxes will just bail you out if the economy crashes because of you.