The Good Place is one example.
Jurassic Park. The bad shit is always either caused by profiteering or just clear cost-cutting, and the desire to make more money just always lets everything go to shit.
And yet the movie(s) tries to cut the entire message down to “People shouldn’t play God” again and again. As if the research itself was the problem. The series also works hard to rehabilitate the greedy fuck billionaire that caused the shit to go down in the first place iirc.
I’m working on a few years old knowlege here though, I might be a bit off.
The author of the book was very religious and the intended message was supposed to be about the god thing. He tried to imagine a somewhat realistic way that the problems he saw with where science was heading would surface, and of course just ended up imagining a problem caused by capitalism, because almost every problem is caused by capitalism.
I remember thinking forever that that message and warning was overblown and then when my sister started doing bio work in her 2nd year undergrad that included gene manipulation of bacteria and fruit flies (like down to editing stuff with a computer to inject later) I definitely felt a brief pang of “my god weve gone too far.”
Gotham. Every single problem and every single villain is the direct result of capitalism. As a bonus the unintended meaning of the show is that capitalism’s only response to this is brutal violence enacted either through the police or whatever that simply makes things even worse.
The answer is basically any show considered “speaking truth to power” and loved by Elizabeth Warren fans.
I think a more fun exercise might be “what pieces of media inadvertently show that capitalism is the problem?”. A go to for me would be Batman. Gotham doesn’t have a crime problem, the problem is that they allowed the Wayne family to consolidate all that wealth at the expense of funding social programs.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Does Captain Planet count? I haven’t seen it in a long time but I remember them almost literally saying that Exxon are sadistic super-villains destroying the world for money and lulz.
Captain Planet was explicitly anti-capitalist really, I don’t know how something that based was made in that era
