"Wire Cutters," is an adorable, award-winning, Pixar-styled short about a robot miner sent to another planet and the shenanigans that unfold when he bumps into another bot. It is also about the perils of exporting neoliberal extraction-based capitalism to outer space and the soul-crushing twinge of regret we all will inevitably feel when we realize that we are unable to change our ways, dooming us to greed-encrusted loneliness and, even, potentially, oblivion.

It's all there! 

And it's very well done. "Wire Cutters" is the work of Jack Anderson, and it's been garnering plenty of acclaim; it won Vimeo's coveted "Short of the Week" award, and has picked up top honors at a host of other festivals. As you can see, it features a cute little corporate mining vehicle sent to some nameless distant planet to mine resources, where it runs into another company's robot that was sent to do the same. They compete at first, then form a strategic alliance, then greed gets the best of them, and they engage in violent conflict until only one bot is left standing; then, spoiler alert, nobody is.