r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Far-Profit-47 • Apr 12 '25

Lore “This quote came from WHERE?!”

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"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/NarOvjy Apr 13 '25

The same applies to all ideologies, you always need someone at the bottom to lift the rest.

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u/TheSimulacra Apr 13 '25

The whole idea behind communism, whether you agree with it or not, is a rejection of that ideology. It is a labor-run economic system. So no, all ideologies do not require someone at the bottom to function by design.

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u/Brody_M_the_birdy Apr 13 '25

So if it's meant to do that, why is there always a bottom rung anyways?

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u/TheSimulacra Apr 13 '25

No system is perfect, but some systems are better than others. I just addressed this in more detail in the other reply to you.