Capitalism: A Love Story is a 2009 American documentary film directed, written by and starring Michael Moore. The film centers on the late-2000s financial crisis and the recovery stimulus, while putting forward an indictment of the current economic order in the United States and capitalism in general.
Topics covered include Wall Street's "casino mentality", for-profit prisons, Goldman Sachs' influence in Washington, D.C., the poverty-level wages of many workers, the large wave of home foreclosures, corporate-owned life insurance, and the consequences of "runaway greed".
The film also features a religious component where Moore examines whether or not capitalism is a sin and if Jesus would be a capitalist, in order to shine light on the ideological contradictions among evangelical conservatives who support free market ideals.
Directed by Michael Moore Produced by Anne Moore Michael Moore Written by Michael Moore Music by Jeff Gibbs Cinematography - Daniel Marracino Jayme Roy Editing by Jessica Brunetto Alex Meiller Tanya Meiller Conor O'Neill Pablo Proenza T. Woody Richman John Walter Studio - The Weinstein Company Dog Eat Dog Films Distributed by Overture Films (US) Paramount Vantage (international)
Release dates: September 6, 2009 (VIFF) October 2, 2009 (United States)
This documentary assumes that America is a "capitalist" nation, we are not. We have a system of corporate welfare, high taxation, Wallstreet gambling with the government protection of loosing money from bad investments, the countless regulations that prevent new businesses from entering the market, tax subsidies for inefficient businesses (such as with Ethanol), counter-fit money printing by the “Federal” Reserve, the fact that you cannot compete with the Government, forced minimal wage, Union monopoly on skilled labor (which protect ineffective employees from getting fired,) ten year positions at Universities, and so on.
Honestly - people thought that Obama was Socialist? How big of eejits are these people? In Europe, Obama wouldn't even be considered a moderate social democrat - he'd be firmly on the economic right.
Americans don't seem to get that a pre-market system actually guarantees inequality, because it's inherently biased towards those with more resources at the start of their lives. Whatever about the myths of yesteryear, the American Dream is simply a myth, unless you have a serious distribution - from rich private accounts and villas, and into collective resources, like education and health, and into supporting struggling families trying to make ends meet.
We are failing in Europe precisely BECAUSE our elites, like the American elite, once again take more heed of the international markets than the needs of the real people and the real economy.
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