What if Aladdin had wished Genie free here?

That's different though, that's Abu modified into another form, while the parade seem to just be formed out of thin air and manipulated by Genie's will, like the dancers during his first big musical number.

There's an episode of the show where Iago becomes a genie and makes everyone in Agrabah rich in jewels, but it also decreases the worth of the jewels.

Misery is more likely to cause revolt; comfort tends to lead to stability as people fear change if they are already satisfied

That was a great episode.

Iago tries to prove that genie is an idiot by using magic to solve all of Agraba's social problems, but everything he does makes the people worse off in the long run.

Moral of the story is that Genie is right to do jack shit all with his powers.

What sort of magic they try? I can't believe something like "make everybody get a loaf of bread every day" would backfire

If Genie had the script right there then how come he didn't know that Al would free him at the end of the movie?

The script doesn't tell him to spoil that reveal so he couldn't.

He does make food for everyone, but the merchants who only know how to make food now have no marketable skills, and the abundance of food also ends up attracting monsters from the desert.

The user you're responding to is, I think, using the logic you hear on Fox about how the Democrats want people to be poor, but also they support welfare because it controls them.

In reality, the way it works is somewhere in between. North Korea is a really interesting example. They live in horrible poverty and rely on the government for rations, but when the government can't provide they turn to black markets. At one point, the black markets began to really rise and certain groups were starting to accumulate wealth, and through wealth, power. NK then decided to reform their currency and wiped out everyone's wealth, saying you could only exchange a certain amount of the old cash for the new. This reasserted reliance on the government and prevented new factions from gaining power.

In terms of control, the trick is that things have to get better before they get worse. The hungry make good soldiers but the starving can't lift a sword, so things have to improve enough that people can pick themselves up out of the gutters.

The common poverty across Agrabah wouldn't apply to this comparison because there's a broader variety of social strata. It also doesn't apply to America for the same reason. Additionally, most similar regimes have already collapsed and reformed after a well-meaning dictator fed his suffering people a little too much and let a few too many others hold some cards.

>monsters from the desert
user, please, the Arabs are a proud race

How big is a loaf? Can you eat a whole loaf in one day?

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To be fair, even if Aladdin was a real prince, he still wasn't raised as one. What worried him was the prospect of becoming a Sultan one day and we're talking about a guy who's spent his entire life out on the streets with a monkey as his only companion. He doesn't know shit about ruling a country and would likely get everything fucked over and probably get murdered by someone.

One of the deleted scenes on the dvd showed that Genie transformed all the servants from a bunch of rats and roaches that all got changed back after Jafar undid everything. It makes sense and nothing in the final movie suggests that this couldn't be the case so I'm going with it.

He knew Aladdin was going to eventually make the right decision and just played along for the fun of it and so he could learn the lesson.

Didn’t they say in the musical that Genie just turned some animals into human subjects to worship Aladdin?

there was a cancelled song about it too