Might want to read this article before going to the Lego movie

Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 3 months ago to Culture

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And I thought that I'd go see it this weekend.

SOURCE URL: http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/business-good_781552.html

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Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 3 months ago

I *told* you AS needed more CGI...

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Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 3 months ago

I'll have to see the movie to say. A lot of news outlets here can turn anything into politics. The plot does sound bizarre.

Lego has a great video on YouTube about how the founder had a dwindling business. He eventually had to lay everyone off. He ended up making toys and trading them to stores for food. Eventually he improved them and built it into a huge company over generations and huge ups and downs.

I don't think Lego is promoting an anti-business agenda, at least based on that one video.

My 5 y/o is a Lego fanatic, and I hope the movie doesn't have some political message in it.

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Posted by rlewellen 10 years, 3 months ago

Oh my it looks like Business and politics are together as one entity. That's a message about the truth of things.

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Posted by overmanwarrior 10 years, 3 months ago

That is a shame. I like Lego as a company. Too bad they took a wimpy approach to the plot of their film just to appease the left winged critics. Demonize business while trying to make money. That's like saying you want to lose weight while eating cookies.

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  Posted by Maphesdus 10 years, 3 months ago
  
  That's sort of true, except that the cookies are magical ones which actually do cause you to lose weight. You can't blame Lego for giving the public the message it wants to hear. It's a matter of supply and demand - the public demands an anti-business message, and so Lego supplies it. Is this paradoxical? Absolutely. But it's the way things work.
  
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    Posted by rlewellen 10 years, 3 months ago
    
    It's anti crony capitalist.
    
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      Posted by Maphesdus 10 years, 3 months ago
      
      Hmmm, I suppose that's a good way to look at it. But then, what's the difference between a crony capitalist and a big business capitalist? Must business remain small in order to avoid being crony?
      
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        Posted by rlewellen 10 years, 3 months ago
        
        A crony capitalist and a politician are hard to separate. A capitalist doesn't profit by buying influence.
        
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        Posted by Maphesdus 10 years, 3 months ago
        
        A capitalist doesn't profit by trading value for value? What do you mean?
        
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        Posted by rlewellen 10 years, 3 months ago
        
        I had to edit it. Read it now.
        
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        Posted by Maphesdus 10 years, 3 months ago
        
        Ah, that makes more sense.
        
        Now here's a question: do you consider John D. Rockefeller to be a genuine capitalist or a crony capitalist?
        
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        Posted by rlewellen 10 years, 3 months ago
        
        I don't know enough about him or his business practices to judge.
        
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Posted by Maphesdus 10 years, 3 months ago

Personally, I find it rather ironic that a big business (Lego Corporation) is promoting an anti-business message.

As a side note, people should be aware that collectivism is the underlying principle which drives big-business. Individualism is the driving force behind small businesses and independent freelancers.

“The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.”
~ John D. Rockefeller

http://www.economist.com/node/160180

What's kind of funny is that John D. Rockefeller was essentially the real life equivalent of Ellis Wyatt (that is, he was a giant oil tycoon), yet his principles were totally opposite of the ones which Ayn Rand thought such a man would have. Just something to think about... ;)

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