Perversions of Capitalism in Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story
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Capitalism came into being as a social and economic system when private individuals or corporations--as opposed to the state or classes of people--began to build businesses where the goal was profit motivated for the self-interest of the owner. This is opposed to a socialist system where the business may be owned by the state and/or profiting the state. In an ideal world, it is the economic establishment of the individual right for self-accomplishment. The private individual/corporation succeeds or fails based on its own merits. The rewards can be great, but the downside, left unchecked, can yield greed and corruption. It's survival of the fittest, whether fair or not. To those who love
it, capitalism is the highest form of risk-adapting freedom. Those who despise it believe the rich get richer and the poor get poorer under it. All us poor people just are suckers for the big business. Michael Moore is one of the later.
In Capitalism: A Love Story, Moore attacks the institutions and individuals that in his and popular estimation have given free enterprise a bad name. Appe...
In this essay, the author
- Explains that capitalism came into being when private individuals or corporations built businesses where the goal was profit motivated for the self-interest of the owner.
- Opines that capitalism is the highest form of risk-adapting freedom. those who despise it believe the rich get richer and the poor get poorer under it.
- Analyzes how moore's film capitalism: a love story attacks the institutions and individuals that have given free enterprise a bad name.
- Analyzes how moore's film brings up a larger issue: if capitalism is what we want for america, should it go unchecked?
- Analyzes how moore's investigative style, though selective, reminds us how little washington knows what it is doing with our money.
- Analyzes how moore satirizes the perversion of capitalism, the reward of success taken to an extreme, and money misunderstood and misappropriated.
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