I love how people keep bringing this up, over ten years since this patent was filed and nothing has come of it.
How do they envisage this would work? It would merely make you hate the thing in the ad more.
I thought this was a meme. Just looked it up on the US patent database…it’s real.
Stuff like this makes me equal parts furious and immensely sad. When I was younger and first watched Wall-E, I thought the obese chair humans were funny and wacky.
Now watching it as an adult, it fills me with genuine horror. All human experiences reduced to virtualized, sterile, mini-games designed to make you as addicted as possible so you consume their products and services as much as possible.
They want us as helpless and dependant on their platforms as they can get us to be. Locked in, forced to dance like monkeys so we can get back to mindlessly consuming more sludge.
Capitalism really is a cancer.
The humans in WALL-E don’t do any labour. When the captain tries to do something, a robot tells him to stop. That economic system is not capitalism. It’s a socialist utopia.
It’s not a utopia at all, it’s a dystopia. The ship they are on was built buy the mega-corp Buy N’ Large, which according to Pixar in the lore, gained a total monopoly over not just all other companies on earth, but much of the world governments.
It’s a classic Cyberpunk trope of mega-corps that effectively are the government because they wield so much power and influence.
Plus, socialism is a society where the workers own the means of production, which isn’t the case in the movie, so it can’t be socialist.
my favorite thng about this image is how the mandatory hamburger acknowledgement is interrupting a scene where a man is getting shot in the face, emphasizing that the target audience is Americans
Please drink verification can.
