Expectations vs Reality
Expectations vs Reality
Expectations vs Reality
I recommend checking how Scrooge McDuck career started. He was absolutely miserable, horrible and alone. I guess as Disney itself grew more popular, and wealthy, it had to change the persona in order to better fit the situation, resolve the discrepancy.
What's even more ironic IMHO is that... Disney itself is absolutely terrible too. They make money by selling a seemingly endless supply of plastic toys and arguably even worst retrograde ideas, sexism, racism, normality (that they are literally dictating based on their rich) and above all other values, consumerism. It's an empire of prisons where nothing is what it seems. Even the fairytells it stole have been transformed beyond their initial point and are so locked down via lawyers that they became unrecognizable. See how creators who collaborated with Disney regretted it, from P. L. Travers to Ub Iwerks for the iconic mouse itself.
So... yeah, deconstructing all that as an adult is fascinatingly grim!
I recommend reading The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, which, while not officially considered cannon, is the origin story that is most accepted by fans. It tells the story of how Scrooge got corrupted by greed, resorting to horrible acts for profit (he actually burned an African village, and blew up a historical monument right in front of Theodore Roosevelt), them turned around at the end of his life when he realises his real wealth is his family.
There is also that one page that subtly confirms he isn't a virgin.
Walt was also a pretty outspoken antisemite.
Power corrupts.
Eat the rich.
In my mind, the true injustice is that his wealth is largely speculative. Scrooge McDuck had all that liquid wealth, kinda like Warren Buffett. For this reason he, in my opinion, doesn't even make a worthy enemy for a proletarian uprising focused on real economic equality.
He still owns pretty much every kind of industry, with his only competitors being two even worse billionaires (Glomgold and Rockerduck).
Be well never know the joy if walking into a random bar without fear.
As frequently as I gotta shit and how alcohol runs through me, I have similar anxieties (especially after I went to that coffee place in Tacoma that didn't have toilets).
It's not a liquid, it's a great many pieces of solid matter - that form a hard floor like surface.
Does anyone else think Scrooge McDuck is MAGA too?
His political inclinations are probably dictated by what his class finds economically advantageous. Blah blah material interests blah.
He probably would be against Trump wanting to be a dictator because he would want to be the dictator, considering he himself seceded from the US and made himself king.
What an embarrassing shit stain