Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why)

[dragoner]

This is an equivocation. The difference begween, for example, a starving artist who lives on comissions and an independently wealthy person who paints what they want on their own time is night and day

Work is the curse of the drinking classes, though yeah for 90% of people, work is a prison of measured time.

 

[Epic Meepo]

Should someone start a new thread for all this debate about the value of work? I'm not seeing how it's related to "Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why)."

 

[Mannahnin]

Should someone start a new thread for all this debate about the value of work? I'm not seeing how it's related to "Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why)."

It's a digression, certainly, but sci-fi is about ideas, and questions like the one we're discussing.
Wall-E is one of the movies people have talked about as a favorite.

We got here because someone brought up that Wall-E showed us a world where humans are freed from the need to work, and opined that this reduced human life to meaningless comfort and reproduction. Even expressing the extreme position that it would make us no better or more than viruses!

 

[dragoner]

It does fit into the "And why?" Part though thread drift just happens.