The point is, the underlying real estate was not created by anyone else (subject of course to one's preferred religion.)
Compare what a real estate developer does to what a Disney-esque media conglomerate does. The developer buys the land and constructs buildings for customers who are entitled to exactly what's in the contract, nothing more or less. I have no problem with that. Nobody took anything that wasn't legally theirs (at least not recently). If you lease the building, nobody is going to alter the contract after the fact to extend the lease for 70 more years, or kick you out before the agreed-upon term is up.
Disney, on the other hand, appropriates stories and ideas from our shared culture and erects legal walls around them. They didn't build jack shit, they just slapped on a fresh coat of paint and a stout padlock. They're cultural squatters with their own cadre of Congressmen.
Compare what a real estate developer does to what a Disney-esque media conglomerate does. The developer buys the land and constructs buildings for customers who are entitled to exactly what's in the contract, nothing more or less. I have no problem with that. Nobody took anything that wasn't legally theirs (at least not recently). If you lease the building, nobody is going to alter the contract after the fact to extend the lease for 70 more years, or kick you out before the agreed-upon term is up.
Disney, on the other hand, appropriates stories and ideas from our shared culture and erects legal walls around them. They didn't build jack shit, they just slapped on a fresh coat of paint and a stout padlock. They're cultural squatters with their own cadre of Congressmen.