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He wanted to create something that brought joy to children. As "evil" as Disney may or may not be, being an Imagineer and getting to use your technical skills to bring enjoyment to kids is something he felt very passionately about. Being a tenured professor doesn't give you the same outreach as working for Disney does when building an amusement park ride.

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I understand the appeal, it just still baffles me that everybody who had anything to say about found it inspiring, since I find it so distasteful. Not that it's wrong to feel that way, but it's just strange to me that nobody seemed to have a problem with it.

The Cory Doctorow book "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" (readable for free online) captures the duality of Disney very well.

On one hand, it produces brilliant, creative, high quality work, and makes it accessible to everyone. On the other hand, it's quite willing to destroy everyone else's work in order to ensure it stays on top.

Download in multiple formats here https://craphound.com/down/download/

> and makes it accessible to everyone

If you pay. It heavily litigates you if you even put a decal of their characters (many who were taken from common European folklore) in your child care center. Disney has been the worst influence on copyright law in the US. Tt's impossible to assess its impact but I wouldnt be surprised if the monetary value of that stiffing of use would be in the hundreds of million.

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