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April 10th, 2020

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/r/The10thDentist

6 years ago

If everyone were forced to write an analytical essay after each movie they watched, society would be so much more efficient

Picture this: You log on to thepeoplesessays.gov and see literally billions of essays written by fellow citizens about every movie they have ever watched. Forced to deeply think about the films they watch, people would all be a lot smarter, AND dates that consist of "dinner and a movie" would be a lot better. "Yeah babe I see that you're naked let me just finish this paragraph."

Lastly, I think the best part of this policy is that each asshole in government getting paid over 70k a year would have to grade ten papers a day. That'll show them. And the person with the best scoring paper every day (limit 5 per year) gets $200 in tax rebates

April 10th, 2020

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Comments:

[deleted]

6 years ago

My essay: movie was good

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manawesome326

6 years ago

I'm pretty sure doing this would just kill the movie industry, as having to write an essay after watching a movie completely neutralises any amount of fun you might have had.

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LeninisLif3

6 years ago

vast increase in time before doing leisure activities

more efficient societally

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[deleted]

6 years ago

It’d be much less efficient cause we’d all be writing essays instead of just moving on after a movie That and I doubt people would put much effort into it, people chose to be in high level English classes and still skimp on essays. It wouldn’t mean more thought was put into a movie or even people getting better at bullshitting, it’d just mean faster typing

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Obelion_

6 years ago

Whaaat? So nobody would watch movies anymore. That is the only effect this would have.

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rinwashere

6 years ago

I want to see what kind of nonsense essays would come out for stupid movies.

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TheBerg18

6 years ago

This is just a dumb opinion

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[deleted]

6 years ago

This is so stupid I can't even. But I think you could attempt to implement a system that does stuff like this to get you a yearly tax deduction in some kind of education focused utopia, but it's in most people in power's best interest to keep your population stupid.

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[deleted]

6 years ago

I do think the idea has some merit conceptually, though perhaps not in a legally executed manner. If we're speaking on efficiency, you need to consider the broader implications. How is movie consumption tracked, and what kind of resources would be necessary to enforce it? It's not entirely that people simply wouldn't want to watch the movies, it's that production would all but cease in lieu of lowered profits, indie movies wouldn't have a chance in hell, and there would likely be fierce regulations to produce the movies given the scenario. I do think there should be encouragement for deeper thought, but I would picture it as more of a contest scenario, or a business venture. Remove the force/mandatory element, something similar might be at the very least entertaining and help the industry, but if efficiency is the metric, I can't see it.

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CherryPi31

6 years ago

im sorry I’d be bored out of my mind. I don’t need a repeat of movie/book analysis in school. It would ruin movies for me.

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