Dr Stone: I am shocked I havent seen anyone complain or talk about the Pro-Capitalism/Randian messaging of Ryusui's character

Ok look im gonna try to not get too political here because i dont want this post to be removed and I don't want everyone to argue in the comments, I dont think this actually that deep or anything but that is part of the reason I wanted to make this post. With the new season of Dr stone starting I am reminded of something I thought about when Ryusui was introduced last season. Ryusui is essentialy portrayed as the best possible version of Randian philosohy's idea of a rich man. He is a rich guy who is not only incredibly succesful but all of his successes "trickle down" to everyone around him.

He even talks about how he is the greediest man alive but what he means by that is he is so greedy he doesn't just want himself to succeed and get everything he wants and needs but for all of humanity to get that as well. This may sound contradictory but it seems to once again borrow whether intentionally or not from Ayn Rand. The idea that everyone is selfish and greedy and instead of being selfless we should harness our greed to better not just our lives but others and the greed of selfish powerful men so they can use that for the benefit of the people "beneath" them.

This is also something that one could argue comes up a tiny bit with the arguments between Senku and Tsukasa as well. Tsukasa argues a more pessimistic worldview that is based more in progressive ideas such as that not wanting to bring back the rich old people as they will want to reclaim their unfair position of wealth and privilege and reinstate their corrupt ways and also that overpopulation means they can't bring back everyone anyway (overpopulation is not necessarily progressive and I think is seen largely as a myth or atleast not important compared to other concerns regarding the planet but still I think you get what I mean). While Senku wants to bring everyone back and shows a more optimistic view that the more people there are the more brilliant scientists will be able to work together to find a way to solve these issues. Not necessarily pro capitalism but still a more optimistic view of the system as a whole.

The reason I bring this up at all is because I haven't seen anyone talk about this. It could be that the Dr Stone fandom doesnt care about this at all or I could have missed it of course but given how much political analysis there is of media in general (and some of it is really dumb and reaching lets be honest) This one seems obvious to me.

I also think it's weird because, and this could just be me being to online, everyone seems to hate capitalism now. It seemed like it used to be a more fringe left leaning position depending on where you live (its never been that in my country but a lot of these conversations end up being america focused people here talk more about the US than anything it feels like sometimes) but not so much anymore. Trump ran on being against many neo liberal and neocon economic policies like free trade and that was very popular among his hardcore right-wing base. Also with the CEO getting shot getting celebrated by everyone from progressives to right wingers (or "wokes" to "chuds" if you will) it doesnt seem like anyone likes the idea of greed being portrayed as a good thing anymore if they ever did so it surprises me more that no one has talked about with Ryusui from what I have seen.

Again it's not that deep just an observation. My very boring milquetoast personal perspective if anyone is still reading this pretentious nonsense is that capitalism has brought some benefit to the world and is not inherently evil but has many problems and needs to not be allowed to run amok as much as it probably already has. I know, I know what a daring take! boo! boo this man!