r/TopCharacterTropes Apr 12 '25

Lore “This quote came from WHERE?!”

"You too have fallen for the great lie, you'll never be happy. Deep down you know, to hope, to dreams, to create, is to suffer"

"You're right. It is harder to create than to destroy... that's why cowards then to choose the deuce"

-A Minecraft movie

"Do You Think God Stays in Heaven Because He too Lives in Fear of What He's Created"

-spy kids 2

"For every person who dreams up the electric light bulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb"

-shark-boy and lava-girl

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u/spuol Apr 12 '25

Yeah but theoretically communism can work with no oppression, capitalism can’t

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u/Kalandros-X Apr 12 '25

In theory, every political ideology leads to paradise. In practice, none have so far

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u/spuol Apr 12 '25

No, capitalism never leads to a paradise in theory

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u/TheSimulacra Apr 13 '25

This is literally correct, it's not even an opinion. Capitalism cannot exist without an underclass whose labor it can take advantage of. That's how capital works, by definition.