Capitalism: A love story. I think he should have titled it differently, maybe the title, “People are greedy, and it really sucks” would be more suitable. I think that Michael Moore showed us more of what greed is in America, not so much Capitalism. I believe that every form of government; Democracy, Capitalism, Communism, Socialism, etc., in its best form is great. In a perfect world, people might support one another, or would not mind being paid equally or any of the other things that a form of government may suggest. Since we do not always ‘play nice,’ people are sadly being punished by greed. If Michael Moore wanted to take that approach he succeeded. For example, he used way to many points for his accusation, and most of them played the sympathy card. The kids in ’care centers,’ families having no place to live, pilots not being paid fairly, revolution of workers, dead peasant policy, Katrina, the list goes on. Yes, these are terrible things that happen in our society today; I personally have been in the same situations that the families have gone through with foreclosure and I had to come home to the city of New Orleans and see the horror that had happened there, and it sucked, (but that’s another story, never mind, anyway..) But capitalism did not cause it. For one, Katrina was a natural disaster, there was no fixing that, but it still took a long time to get New Orleans back on its feet again. That was not capitalism at its worst (That was just FEMA). And the foreclosures, the dead peasant policy, and low salary is just large industries being greedy. What I am really trying to say is that it is the people who are being greedy in their seat of power, is the main problem, not the form of government. Furthermore, I do not think that Moore gave a good counter argument, or even saying why ‘they’ think that this is right. He just proved wrongness (and greed).
On another note, What does Wallace Shawn have anything to do with this? Wallace Shawn!? Was Michael Moore just trying to say that Capitalism this is:
Inconceivable? Why didn’t he just get him to say it? He may have just needed another celebrity in his film.
Oh and maybe in the future we will be judged on things like this:
I would rather that over greed any day!
