Economic concepts in a bug's life
1. at the start of the movie the ants are preoccupied with traditional
agricultural labor.
a. what are the resources of ant island? grapes seeds, muts, lears
b. what changes in the ant's resources do we see through the film?
c. what resource do they lack most of all?
2. the grasshoppers are portrayed as a band of ravenous landholders
seeking to squeeze every cent from their holdings, not unlike the
exploitation of factory workers in the early days of the industrial
revolution. the “circus bugs” represent entrepreneurial capitalists.
a. do the filmmakers portray this business class in a positive or
negative manner?