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coauthor of 
Businessmen Behaving Badly
. “They engage in criminal behavior.
As a group, corporate types commit more murders on TV than any other
occupational category
—
even career criminals.”
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Aliens, Resident Evil, Avatar
, and 
Network
 are all recent examples of seedy
corporations or their henchmen doing evil deeds. In an article for 
Politix
,
movie critic Nell Minow agrees with the corporate villainization and those who
run them. She explains, “The corporate bad guy in stories has been around as
long as the corporation. One of the best-known characters in literature is
Charles Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge, a stingy moneylender without any vestige
of kindness or compassion.”
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And yet, has it ever occurred to anyone that

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maybe the real persona behind an entrepreneur is not crusty Mr. Potter, but
perhaps George Bailey?
The villain narrative, or class warfare, is also prevalent in politics and often
determines who gets elected. Campaign demagogues know a winning
candidate is the politician who successfully paints the villain narrative against
his opponent, while minimizing it for himself. Democrats successfully used the
villain narrative against Mitt Romney, portraying him as a ravenous capitalist
working for the evil private-equity company Bain Capital. Comments from his
wife about owning a horse and its expenditures sealed his defeat.
Political class warfare is a 
SCRIPTED
tool for obedience. According to
OpenSecrets.org
, the average net worth of a congressman, Democrat or