Comments on: "Ghosts With Shit Jobs" econopocalypse mockumentary raising money for tour with USB bracelets

By: Jarmo Puskala

Jarmo Puskala — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:59:00 +0000

Uh, actually it is “that deep”.

By: T_Camper

T_Camper — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:51:00 +0000

You have not been to Hamilton lately. My suggestion is to head out to the Art crawl on James Street north. It is where Queens Street West was 20 years ago. Gritty but amazingly so.

By: Azdak

Azdak — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:47:00 +0000

Uhm, you haven’t seen this movie… right? So really you have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about… right? This movie satirizes white people in the west and their practice of tokenizing and exploiting others. It’s satire. You know what that is… right?

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:27:00 +0000

I enjoyed this video quite a bit, It was obviously downtown in familiar Toronto locations. If you wanted to show decay, maybe Hamilton would have been a better pick!

By: Incipient Madness

Incipient Madness — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:52:00 +0000

Like I said above, I’m afraid we may be half way to losing first world status.

By: hypnosifl

hypnosifl — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:36:00 +0000

The US may not go bankrupt, but wealth may continue to become more concentrated with a larger portion of the population working shitty jobs and less of a middle class. Look at this post discussing some studies of prospects for recent college graduates, for example.

By: Garrett Eaton

Garrett Eaton — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:19:00 +0000

Putting the racial component aside, there’s still a lot wrong with this film… The fact that the creators actually think these are shit jobs is a pretty big clue. Or is it so meta that it’s actually a giant self critique: the west has become so privileged that we can’t fathom any job where we don’t sit on a computer and read boing boing instead of working?

Something tells me its not that deep.

By: Incipient Madness

Incipient Madness — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:30:00 +0000

BTW, the US is not going to go bankrupt in 2016. The day may come when we slide out of first world status (I fear we may be half way there) because of underinvestment in infrastructure and education, but it won’t start going this bad this fast.

We are a strong and still very wealthy country full of innovative and hard working people. The main thing wrong with us is that, as Neil deGrasse Tyson said, we stopped dreaming.

By: ChicagoD

ChicagoD — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:12:00 +0000

Yes, but it only applies to white Canadians.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:46:00 +0000

Especially since the plight of low paid immigrant workers in central Toronto is pretty implicit in the parody which works largely as ironic role reversal. Maybe some actors need to be shown in traditional Asian roles like the old guy sitting on a step stool on the sidewalk using a box cutter to trim the baby bok choy.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:19:00 +0000

Dang, how did you leave out Toronto’s Vietnamese and Portuguese neighborhoods?

Is there a rule of the internet that whenever “Canada” is mentioned a Canadian must complain that Canada is unfairly stereotyped as being all white?

By: ChicagoD

ChicagoD — Tue, 15 May 2012 17:09:00 +0000

Even in Toronto!?! Well, shit.

By: OtherMichael

OtherMichael — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:10:00 +0000

Munro always manages to make the maximal from minimal means .

By: OtherMichael

OtherMichael — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:09:00 +0000

Could you please elaborate.

Or just stop commenting about this without acknowledging the incredible amounts of insinuating well-poisoning asshatery present in both your assumption and execution?

By: Alvin Dantes

Alvin Dantes — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:50:00 +0000

Could you stop posting about this without acknowledging the incredible amounts of racism present both in the premise and the execution of this? Only white people are affected by the tanking economy? What happened to all the blacks, latinos, and even asians who are poor already, even in Toronto?