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Michael Moore - 'Capitalism - A love Story'.?
I watched Michael Moores 'Capitalism - A love story'. Now i am not American so i dont know how much truth there is in his documentary. Now not being American, i am just wondering are things that bad in the U.S? Do americans find that there is any truth to what michael moore is saying about capitalism? What particularly got me was the 'airline' pilots salary - that pilots dont make much money. But also the bailout of the banks by the government. How do americans feel about what michael moore was saying - the true state of America or a complete load of rubbish - or was their some truth to what michael moore was saying? Has capitalism let people down?
I guess what i really am interested in is are things as bad as what the film portrays? I also saw another documentary called 'The Last Truck' about the closing of the GM Plant. Just seeing this documentary as well as Michael Moore's doco really paints a very gloomy picture of the U.S today and i guess a picture that big companies have alot to answer for. Are things really as bad as these documentaries say?
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- Noah HLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Corporate capitalism isn't exactly 'capitalism'. Trans national corporations spend most of their earnings buying up smaller corporations to increase market share and they spend almost as much buying up politicians to look out for their interests. We always think of capitalism in terms of the guy who builds a better mousetrap and does well by doing good. That's not what's happening now. Defending the 500 or fewer mega corporations as they continue to buy up governments, pay bribes to the thugs in China and other thugocracies for a license to exploit workers and ignore what ever weak environmental laws exist and worse, take no responsibility for shoddy, worthless, dangerous and short lived products that in another context is called 'pimping'. Trans national corporations have become like medieval fiefdoms constantly at war with one another via hostile takeovers and who treat all but the top most executive aristocracy like serfs. Meanwhile the GOP/Teabag/Fox 'News' Axis keeps it's Ministry of Propaganda, the right wing radio dummies and Fox 'Weasel' 'News', pumping out propaganda about anyone...like Michael Moore, calling everyone 'not them ' 'far left liberals, or socialists or a communists if they even mention how badly the American wage earner is being screwed. This form of corporate capitalism is another episode of 'Robber Barons'....no friends of the working class. While corporations 'make money' the social and physical infrastructure falls apart, wars continue and the working middle class is reduced day by day. That's not capitalism...that's just a giant criminal enterprise and they're getting away with it!
- 1 decade ago
Michael Moore is a biased liberal. Everything he puts on screen is his version of propaganda. He tells only half of any story. America is not anything Moore puts in a movie. He might have some good points here or there but judging America by a Moore movie would not be an accurate judgement. I haven't seen that movie, I have seen parts of some of his others, and this one is pretty much the same thing. But America's capitalism does have some flaws, its mostly because banks did things that banks should not do. And the government bailed them out which they should not have done. The problem is not being solved, its just being delayed.
