Seriously, need more things to string stuff onto the end of... Either way
Blah blah blah, michael moore is getting free publicity by making the semi-outrageous comment that capitalism is bad. his message probably falls short of actually embracing the alternatives and is just left wing whining but the whole thing where some people will probably take it to heart or already have (a certain austrailian poster for example) is good evidence of the basic truth of pure democracy; that is that the median always tends to the point where they want what is good for them right now and lack the ability to make reserves or deal with complex problems until it is too late (see Machiavelli).
He also somehow equates democracy (a political system) to an economic system. Can only interpret that as majority rule wealth redistribution. Then he goes on to complain about bailouts? Which is wealth redistribution...
Im not going to go over every single point until someone here says something along the lines of private property, freedom, and free enterprise are bad things.
VENICE (Reuters) - Capitalism is evil. That is the conclusion U.S. documentary maker Michael Moore comes to in his latest movie "Capitalism: A Love Story," which premieres at the Venice film festival Sunday.
Blending his trademark humor with tragic individual stories, archive footage and publicity stunts, the 55-year-old launches an all out attack on the capitalist system, arguing that it benefits the rich and condemns millions to poverty.
"Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil," the two-hour movie concludes.
"You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy."
The bad guys in Moore's mind are big banks and hedge funds which "gambled" investors' money in complex derivatives that few, if any, really understood and which belonged in the casino.
Meanwhile, large companies have been prepared to lay off thousands of staff despite boasting record profits.
The filmmaker also sees an uncomfortably close relationship between banks, politicians and U.S. Treasury officials, meaning that regulation has been changed to favor the few on Wall Street rather than the many on Main Street.
He says that by encouraging Americans to borrow against the value of their homes, businesses created the conditions that led to the crisis, and with it homelessness and unemployment.
Moore even features priests who say capitalism is anti-Christian by failing to protect the poor.
"Essentially we have a law which says gambling is illegal but we've allowed Wall Street to do this and they've played with people's money and taken it into these crazy areas of derivatives," Moore told an audience in Venice.
"They need more than just regulation. We need to structure ourselves differently in order to create finance and money, support for jobs, businesses, etc."
GREEN SHOOTS?
Amid the gloom, Moore detects the beginnings of a popular movement against unbridled capitalism, and believes President Barack Obama's rise to power may bolster it.
"Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event," he told a news conference. "If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him."
Moore also warned other countries around the world against following the recent U.S. economic and political model.
I don't care for what I know of this guy. It's easy - I have done so - to file him away as some extremist cocksucker, but I don't know what his angle is. He may just be very good at what he does. He is an amazing nipple twister.
Im not going to go over every single point until someone here says something along the lines of private property, freedom, and free enterprise are bad things.
