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The Assylum is proof free market doesn't work.


The economic theory assumes desire for profit and competition will make sure society will get best products possible for lowest possible prices.

As we see here (and in countless of other examples) you can still make money making crappy products, contributing nothing to society and wasting money, energy, resources, human labor..etc (along with annoying people with those products)

Defenders will surely claim that just means the system isn't 100% perfect - Ofcourse you will have crappy products once in a while.

But here we see manufacturers of crappy products keep making money over and over and over again. The market doesn't force them to change in any way.

Some will now claim that since the product made money it has to have benefited someone - someone liked it otherwise it wouldn't have made any money.

This ignores the fact the product made money to the point of financial success due to the fact it was misleading - as are movie titles ripoffs in this case. The manufacturers of this kind of products precisely count on parents confusing their movie with the original, as in other cases counting on the fact that people won't have the time or the will to check the reviews of products or be psychologically manipulated in other ways.

OK maybe i've gone too far, this can be a very long debate. I just hope you get my point.

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In sentiment, matkoda, I tend to agree with you, but I think there are a few aspects you might be overlooking.

The free market doesn't guarantee everything is going to be of high quality - in fact, it tends to guarantee that most items will be the lowest quality the market will tolerate. It works against aspirations. But that aside, some products are intentionally pitched at a cheaper level. Not everyone wants to spend the money to eat off fine china, just as not every movie production sets out to make an award-winning or blockbuster product, even if they were able to. Some flicks are intended for the cheap end of the market, or for straight-to-video, and a relatively small return is accepted as the pay-off for a much lower initial outlay. People still go and see these flicks, knowing full well they're not a quality product.

I don't think you need to see the title of this one as an attempt to mislead movie-goers. It's a cash-in on the brand recognition of Cameron's flick, for sure, but it's also an easy way for people to know what they're going to get going in - "Hey, let's go see the one about the ship sinking!" I can't see anyone actually confusing this with Cameron's film.

As I said, I tend to agree with you, but you're not going to get much agreement from fans of free-market capitalism. They're like frogs sitting in the proverbial pot of water on a slow stove.



You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

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Marxist.

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