A Little Irony

If you make a clear distinction with profiteerism-gauged Capitalism with resource-distribution gauged Machiavellianism, you find that famous characters in American history such as Jimmy Hoffa worked within socialist models but to have their group compete in the capitalism-geared market.

Richie Rich is a great American comic book character who espouses the ironically beneficial qualities of capitalism (i.e., merchandising).

Bruce Wayne, for example, on the other hand, is a man of wealth and industrial power which affords him symbolic social attention.

Comic book villains such as Kingpin, a nemesis of Spider-Man, who seem financially strong, shape asset-flow towards brutally efficient power networks (and/or associations with crime syndicates).

Maybe it just comes down to the traditional greed-wisdom dichotomy of money management (in the comic book world). Consumerism creates unusual ties between lifestyle consumption and ethics fantasies, and the media feeds this. Certainly, the fictional American comic book vigilante Catwoman, a sometimes-ally, sometimes-nemesis of Batman, wears outfits that seem reflective of real world street fashions in America and Europe. Catwoman starts out as a lowly bureaucrat in Gotham before making intriguing connections with the wealthy (and powerful) Bruce Wayne (and his alter ego).

This issue seems to be either be very stimulating or a continuous dead-end, depending on the route of your analysis/investigation...





Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco

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