Boots Riley’s Dystopian Satire “Sorry to Bother You” Is an Anti-Capitalist Rallying Cry for Workers
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- democracynow.org - An evil telemarketing company, a corporation making millions off of slave labor, and one Oakland man at the center of it all who discovers a secret that threatens all of humankind. Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You” is the dystopian social satire being hailed as one of the best movies of the summer. The film’s stars include Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Armie Hammer, Terry Crews and Danny Glover. We speak with Boots Riley, writer and director of the critically acclaimed film. He is a poet, rapper, songwriter, producer, screenwriter, humorist, political organizer, community activist, lecturer and public speaker-best known as the lead vocalist of The Coup and Street Sweeper Social Club.
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I love how Amy Goodman gets a bit giddy talking to Boots. You Go Amy! Glad to see you smile after so much depressing news lately.
This is her reaction to activism generally, not that Boots hasn't put out good work.
I noticed that , too. Good for her - feel the joy!
My thoughts exactly, haha.
Seeing her so happy and smiling makes me really happy too for some reason. Probably because it’s usually all war, corruption, terror and climate disaster 24/7 😂
It makes seeing her like this so enjoyable
The world needs more artists like boots!
SASHA Savage you're a jack ass. Have fun arguing with yourself.
Hell yes!
SASHA Savage,
I heard the earth is flat and the sun revolves around it.
i prefer sneakers :D
@SASHA Savage he still lives in oakland...something tells me he's not exactly rich.
_"Slavery is likely to be abolished...and chattel slavery destroyed. This I and my European friends are in favor of, for slavery is but the owning of labor and carries with it the care of the laborer, while the European plan...is capital control of labor by controlling wages."_
- Hazard Circular, 1862
This quote is from where? this is quite familiar.
@@JakeTheMuss10454 , I cited the quote.
It is from an elite publication, Hazard Circular, from 1862.
_"Physical slavery requires people to be housed and fed. Economic slavery requires people to feed and house themselves."_
*- Zeitgeist: Addendum 2008*
Really crucial, combing Labor Movements with movements to thwart Police Brutality. If you organize the workers and they will withhold their labor...you'll see change.
The company "WorryFree" he's talking about,that sounds like Sony corporation. In S.Korea you can give birth in a Sony hospital,live in Sony owned suburbs,get married in the Sony chapel,and get buried at the Sony cemetery. Essentially never needing to step foot off company land your whole life.
South Korea is a capitalist-hellhole.
Boots could actually portray George Jackson in a Biopic if he wanted. Love his work with the Coup.
After watching Amy constantly talking about corruption, climate disasters and war it makes me really really happy to see her so cheerful and upbeat. She’s such an icon and a hero. Love her.
Amy Goodman is so adorable
I can't recommend this movie enough, it was fantastic and extremely bizare
Great movie. I understood the meaning and questions it raised.
That's the key. How to give teeth to demonstrations, by affecting their bottom line.
cant wait to see it......f ya! Boots keep speakin brother
Brilliant film. Go D.N. best News Show ever!!!!!
Public banks might give the people more power because we'd be lending to ourselves. Interest profits would go back into the community rather than to "private interests".
Did you catch how he said to Juan to rephrase the question not repeat and it took Juan a second to catch up .
How tf am I only hearing about this movie now??
Boots must love Charlie Kaufman movies.
Terry Crews, Danny Glover Steven Yeun, Tessa Thompson, etc. very nice.
Looks like fun.
How is no one calling out their blatant misinterpretation of parts, if not the whole movie??
Loving it
Sounds like a mix between Which Way is Up and the Twilight Zone can hardly wait to see it✌
and Black Mirror.
good movie
Boots Riley I wonder where people can find your film? 8)
BB Reviews Movies & Attempts Comedic Mayhem..It's in theater's now
@Rafael Pena thank you.
No problem;)
oh yeah all right hell yeah thats tight
...................AM
I loved Truth-Teller Amy before she sold out to Big Gender.
Where can I sign up to the cult following that worships this movie???! PS Inquiring minds
If this dude is anti-capitalist, then I expect he'll be glad to split his paycheck with me.
watcherjohnny or he could create more thought provoking art.
Capitalism is a descriptive theoretical model of the economy, and Boots favours a different model. Your comment doesn't make any sense.
Did you watch the whole interview? I think he would encourage that more of his wealth get spent for the benefit of others. I bet he doesn't hire any employee's at minimum-wage.
_"Slavery is likely to be abolished...and chattel slavery destroyed. This I and my European friends are in favor of, for slavery is but the owning of labor and carries with it the care of the laborer, while the European plan...is capital control of labor by controlling wages."_
- Hazard Circular, 1862
This is what modern capitalism has become.
_"Physical slavery requires people to be housed and fed. Economic slavery requires people to feed and house themselves."_
- Zeitgeist: Addendum
Did you not hear the part where he has to work part time to make art like this? I hope that white privilege is working out for you because you are an idiot.
watcherjohnny ,do you think there's no paycheck without capitalism? How old is capitalism? 300 years,tops. Man,get a clue and stop letting greedy bastards manage your perception.
If it was not for capitalism, workers would not have jobs to cry about. The irony!
energyparticle You don’t know shit! 🤣
You're thinking of the economy, not capitalism, there's a difference.
energyparticle
Right... Because jobs don't exist in any other ecomonic system. Everything is just created/developed by magical tree elves and fairy dust. Come on buddy... Capitalism is simply a system where labor is controlled by a few, authoritative individuals at the top. They supply the market with what will make the most profit, having no concern for the actual needs of the people exploited by said market system or the unaccounted externalities created by day to day operations. Automation will take away majority of the jobs over the next 30 years as capitalists continue to eliminate labor cost in every way possible. Overall this automation will be a good thing, but there will probably be a difficult transition period thanks to the current US political climate (favoring oligarchy over democracy). It will be interesting to see less 3rd world exploitation as robot workforces become a less expensive option.
Jay J the thing is, guy, that Capitalism includes the practice of politics. That’s the part of capitalism that creates collusion and corruption. The antithesis of Business Ethics. Education is critical. But it seems you’d prefer to just regurgitate talking points you’ve been fed. Try again?
Our economy is capitalism. What am I missing?
I like the movie but the anti capitalist message behind it is dumb. Capitalism is about driving innovations. You gotta work smart and hard in this system. if you are not smart and don't make great life choice, why should other people need to make up for it? It's cruel relentless, but that is life. Competition drives creativity. Why do most technology come out of us?
I am socially left but the left have zero idea on how economics works(at least the far left) they think throwing money at everything fixes the issue. If we raised the minimum wage, what is going to happen to the cost of living? If your local market double their payroll, are they gonna jack up their price? If an employee get the same amount of money but work only half of time, would he choose to work half of time? You can adjust the the minimum wage but all the other variable is gonna change, in the end, nothing is gonna change except you just mess with the invisible hand and that hand is gonna stick its finger up everyone's ass
Public defender for example is a social safety net, every lawyer on there gets about 7 min to review one case before hearing. Why does it suck? Because it's run by the government, like your usps, like any of the government agency. What are the incentives to improve their service? Steve job wasn't asked by us government to make the iPhone, he wants it, he know he can profit from it. Internet was invented by us army, but was given to public, and now it grows into this beautiful and the most important inventions. Try and name one innovation, communist Russia or China came up with.
I'm not a USSR apologist at all, it was a terrible totalitarian state, but you are aware that they were the first to shoot a man into space? Russia went from being a mostly agrarian state in 1917 to becoming a global superpower in a matter of a few decades.
The argument you make about wages isn't new at all, Marx responded to that exact claim over 150 years ago. If everyone gets more money, nobody's going to live more wealthy, that is correct, but if you reduce the profit margin of capitalists, the same amount of money just gets distributed in a different way.
The often cited "invisible hand" is not about what most people think it is about. Adam Smith used the term to describe that companies wouldn't just outsource their productions into other countries as that would hurt the economy of the nation they're operating in. That, quite obviously, proved to be false.
Not only the internet but many major innovations, be it techonological or medical or whatever, are government-funded. Capitalism even sometimes discourages innovation as corporations want to make a profit of a product as long as possible. Companies sometimes buy patents just so nobody else can use them and then wait to sell their current products and sell the patented product as an innovation later on.
Lastly, most leftists (though not all) don't want a large government. The original idea of socialism wasn't that the government would control the economy, but that the people as a whole would - like a democratisation of the economy. So if people worked in a factory they would collectively decide how that factory operates. Anarcho-communists as one example reject the idea that there should be a state at all.
@@R0DisG0D What is interesting is there are varies way to obtain growth. Hitler done it, as you mentioned soviet done it. And China is doing it now, but thru initial privatization and Xi's transformation of China into a closely gripped authoritanian state. However there is a fundamental flaw in these government styles. They all rely on one single figure or will end up relying on one single source of direction/leadership. Quote me on this, once xi leave the office, China will go down really fast if they can't find an equally competent leader.
I disagree with you with on technical innovation being government funded. Internet maybe invented by us military, but only when privatization happened, do we see the tremendous user growth and infrastructure growth. All these internet companies do not spawn from government money. IPhone were made because someone wanted more market shared, and money.
So your point on reducing profit margin does not make sense to me. What are the percentage we are looking at and how do we decide that percentage. How do we make sure that we dont have profit margin way too high up there that causes the job creator to stop creating job and just become one of worker.
Lastly, while most leftist countries start with good intent and based off sounded Marxist theory. Do we ever have a country succeed or continueing Marxist doctrine? I don't think so. I can give the Venezuela but there is a lot of other example, Cambodia, mao's China, North Korea. Many would argue, there wasn't a true communist society. Well why is it so hard to implement? Could it be that it is just a theory? Keep in mind this is so long ago and Marx is just a theorist with no actual implementation experience. Could it be the greediness of human nature that always corrupt and deviate from the theory?
First point I kind of agree with. The growth Hitler caused I'd argue was less sustainable though than the USSR or China growth as it was so focused on war that it was agressive on an unsustainable level, regardless of the competence of the leader.
Second: eh, I still think that could've happened in the hands on the public. It didn't happen prior to that because the military isn't interested in providing a vast infrastructure for the public.
As long as capitalists exist, they will always make more money than workers: the idea behind hiring workers is that they generate value for you. You pay them, but you pay them less than what they produce is worth or else there would be no financial reason to hire them at all. The rate of profit margin is concerning how much you pay them less than what they're producing is worth: do you pay them 50% of what they produce is worth or 60% or 90%?
The problem with the emergence of democratic socialist states is that they often get shattered by outside forces. The Paris Commune was squashed by Prussia and frances monarchic forces, the Second Spanish Republic was overthrown by Franco and current attempts in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (often called Rojava, not to be confused with Assads regime or the rebels fighting against him) are threatened by a turkish invasion among other things. Heck, even Russia was invaded by 4 foreign forces before anyone could have known in wich direction it would develop in 1917.
I fully agree with you that nobody should keep to strict Marxist doctrine. The dude had problems and he wrote his book 150 years ago, so large parts of it are completely outdated. There's a lot of lessons to be learned from his works, but nobody can expect to create a working society by just following his instructions (wich were rather vague when it came to actually discribing communism anyway).
you sound dumb asss fuck and ignorant