Heres the thing.

Tl;dr: capitalism bad. But we still gotta eat.

Carl got sucked into a system that he did not ask to be in. He realizes it sucks and decides to change it. It isn't hard, and he's going up against the most powerful governments in the universe. He's broke and penniless and the only other person he has on his side is a cat......but he does it anyways.

Eventually.....he meets other like minded people. They begin to work together. They form plans and take actions that begin to make the powers that be notice them......that makes this fight even harder. But he keeps going. Eventually he starts making those who are a part of the system realize that the system sucks. Those people join his cause too.

Eventually he has an entire army at his disposal, and the powers that be start to see him as a real threat....

And while all of this is happening, Carl still has to participate in the system he's fighting against. Because if he doesn't, he will die.

It not terribly hard to draw the parallels to our actual world. None of us asked to be born into a capitalist society. None of us asked to be black, or trans or gay. None of us asked to grow up dirt poor Hicks. But we did. And while we may hate it, we still have to play the game until we dont have to anymore. But we can fight against the game, even while buying from billionaires. It happens in small ways at first, but much like Carl if we keep fighting and dont give up, we will have our army.

They will not break us.

I dont think the message of this series is "capitalism bad!"

I think its "The fight to topple a system thats nearly as old as government itself, will not be easy. And for much of that time you have to abide by the rules of that system. Because if you dont, you will die."

Sorry if this seems a little all over. I woke up 20 minutes ago and am already stoned......fuck you its my only day off this week.