Businesspeople are Evil! is a great post at the Acton Institute Powerblog by David Michael Phelps.
Gainor attributes these portrayals as the result of “a shrinking roster of available villains, in a universe where capitalists, along with aliens and Nazis, are one of the few groups left that it is safe to demonize.”
One comment maker adds:
Further confirmatory evidence: the transition of Lex Luthor from “mad scientist” to “evil capitalist businessman” in the 1980s.
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