Via Avedon, this panel with Joss “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Whedon at ComicCon:
And here’s some of what he said:
Joss Whedon said a lot of interesting things in his Q&A at ComicCon, with good news for fans of his work and some interesting insights scattered along the way, but around the 54-minute mark he answers a question about his economic philosophy: “… And, you know, we’re watching capitalism destroy itself right now, and ultimately, all these systems don’t work. I tend to, you know, want to champion the working class because they ARE getting destroyed. I write about helplessness. Helplessness in the face of the giant corporations and the enormously rich people who are very often in power giving those people more power to get even more power. We are turning into tsarist Russia, okay; we are creating a nation of serfs. …“
It always gets worse before it gets better. Especially when you’re taking power away from those who have it. But what really pisses them off is when you start taking their money. Fun times.