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Re:For Seoul’s poor, class strife in ‘Parasite’ is daily rea... by barry-cotter on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @11:48PM (#22481289)
> The point of the film was that poverty forces the poor into ruthless conflict with each other as they battle for the scraps of the rich.

As an empirical matter this isn’t true. If it was civilization would be impossible. Most people are decent human beings working hard to get by. If poverty forced the poor into ruthless competition India or China would have higher rates of violent crime than the US, not lower.

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Re:For Seoul’s poor, class strife in ‘Parasite’ is daily rea... by WilliamEdward on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @12:33AM (#22481437)
This movie was a plot exaggerated to be interesting. Most cutthroat behaviour exhibited by the poor in real life is not literally killing, but more like selfishness and conniving.
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