Capitalism A Love Story Analysis

Capitalism is a system where the sole goal is for private owners to gain profit. In the 1930s’ Dust Bowl, private owners, such as farm owners did not pay laborers enough money. In addition, minimum wage laws did not begin until 1938. Wages dropped so low because of the contradicting owner and laborer goals. Moreover, the stock market crash caused demand to drop and jobs to disappear. Overproduction also contributed to elimination of jobs. The wage gap between the wealthy and poverty further increased over time. Despite, the huge elimination of many jobs during the stock market crash, the changing seasons created some cotton and fruit picking jobs because certain plants are ripe for a certain period. However, laborers had to travel to other states or even countries to look for jobs only to face ostracization from the natives. In pursuit of capitalistic goals, the government promoted harmful DDT chemicals and nuclear weapons to keep the chemical and weapons industry alive.

     Historically speaking, the movie relates the United States history poorly. It has many accuracies historically, but the problems far outweigh them.

He first lists a few Economic issues such as “DOW having its biggest annual loss in almost twenty years…, and that its cheaper to fed ex yourself across town then to drive there…, also that Russia and China have signed a new pact when we’d dismantled the last of the fallout shelters etc…” One may ask why he listed these and not go into further details, but who knows. It’s probably because these are what he thinks are the small issues in American society. However later on Moore goes into more depth about the DOW crash and how it effected many Americans in layoffs and how investors lost millions. He then went back into retrospect hinting that the economy was better before Bush’s presidency again. He says that before America had no issues intact it had the “largest economic expansion in history”, “The air and water pollution were at its lowest levels, crime was at the record low, teen pregnancies had dropped out of sight, and more kids were graduating out of high school and college than ever before.” and in just a blink of an eye everything went from being great to the total opposite. Moore didn’t only talk about the United States, he also referred to the Israelis and Palestinians stating that “Israelis started killing Palestinians again.”. Moore mentioned this issue because he just wants to show that when the American economy goes down not only does it just effect the Americans but there allied countries too.

Throughout the film I began seeing America and its culture in a new light. I was able to see the things that Americans take for granted every single day, that other countries and people would worship. I was able to see American beliefs, traditions and practices through a different perspective. One practice that stood out to me was our use of technology and how dependent we are on technology. When the Lost Boys of Sudan came to America, they had never used electricity at all and it was hard for them to adjust to using it. This, I found was strange because technology has become second nature to Americans. We don’t have to even think about using it anymore. One tradition that stood out to me was how we as Americans, celebrate the Fourth of July.

A cancer cell known today is a destructive living organism that duplicates itself by feeding off the energy of a corpse. Similarly, a country that promotes capitalism enables businesses to gain wealth at the expense of the consumer’s wealth. Ultimately this becomes a question of morality as these corporations reap the money from hardworking citizens for the purpose of greed and exploitation of the free market economy. In the film, Capitalism: A love story, the film makers use conventions and point of view to show that capitalism in America is an evil that is better replaced by democracy. Michael Moore warns everyone that promoting capitalism will destroy the economy because of the financial sacrifices made by citizens for free enterprise

Capitalist Society in The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller "Death of a salesman" is a "tragedy of a common man". Throughout the play the reader sees how Willy Loman struggles to achieve something, which is beyond his capability. He has a dream, the American dream of success and accomplishment. And yet, he is not able to ever thrive because his idea of how to succeed is wrong. The times have changed, the play is set in the period of an economic boom and increasing desire for material goods in America and the Loman family is now living in a capitalist society, however, Willy seems not to have realised that things have changed.

Socialism and capitalism are two concepts that are used by governments in respective countries regarding how the economies operate. The two concepts are based on political, economic and social systems. The United States of America is an example of a capitalist country while Sweden is a socialist nation. Apart from the similarity in which the government plays a role in the effectiveness of the two systems, there is no discrimination in both systems regarding race, color or other arbitrary classification. There are notable differences between the two systems based on ownership structure, equity, and employment.

In the Michael Moore documentary Capitalism a Love Story examples what capitalism is and how it hurt so many citizens. Capitalism is a way of organizing an economy so that the things that are used to make and transport products are owned by individual people and companies rather than by the government. The documentary teaches viewers the impact that big corporations have on americans. At the beginning of the film Moore is showing middle class people get there houses taken from them because of capitalism.

There are many strengths and weaknesses in this film. One of Moore’s strengths was that he uses many entertainments to portray most of his argument. Moore uses interviews with the public and celebrities, history of our country, crude humor, footage that was extremely ruthless and alarming, as well as hands on experiments Another strength is that he provides evidence as to what he’s saying. One weakness is that sometimes he goes off topic, or sometimes he also contradicts himself. Moore uses many pathos, ethos, and logos through out the whole film. First off, this film is filled with pathos, it is all very emotional due to all the tragic events mentioned. With ethos it does show a lot of credibility through out the whole movie. Lastly, the film does state many facts, statistics, and evidence. For example, the correlation of people killed all around the world and the laws that each country has. On fallacy found in the documentary is how he always tries to prove something from what he says. This is called or also known as Ad Hominem fallacy. He

Capitalism is not a rigid, inflexible economic and political system—there are many forms of capitalism around the world. It is illustrated as being different variations of capitalism outside the United States; there is the Dutch version, the French version, the British version, as well as the American version. American capitalism implements free-market ideology and that makes the U.S. stand out among other nations. Other nations do not dwell on privatization and deregulation nearly as much as the U.S., which is both a major strength and critique of American capitalism. One critique of American capitalism is the Five Internal Contradiction of Capitalism. These contradictions include inevitable growth of monopolies, demand labor saving technology

The main key idea in this film is that America’s economy has nearly doubled, yet almost all of the benefits have went to the top 1%. Robert Reich touches on the growing inequality between the middle class Americans and the top 1%. He talks about how in the last 30 years America has just been getting richer and richer. Despite all the success our country has been having somehow the middle classes rates have flattened out and they are being taxed much more than the richest people in the nation. He also talks about how the average middle class citizen has some form of debt and it is continuing to grow. The reason this is happening is because people in the middle class keep digging themselves deeper into debt just to live comfortably. If America keeps heading down this same path than eventually there will be an economic crash.

Capitalism stresses private economic decisions. People are free to decide how they will earn and spend their income. Companies may choose which goods and services to produce and how much to charge for them. They also compete with one another to sell products. Nations whose economies are based on capitalism include the United

The movie is a semi- historical document, explaining the trends in contemporary American life, an investigative report on a set of social problems and their causes. Issues like our over-reliance on cars and the failures of public transportation to meet the needs of people. The historical causes are identified in General Motors ' projects to shape American life around its own interests. Again, we are talking Capitalism! The documentary is well evidence based on archive documents. Central concerns are on infrastructure and how business interests shape public policy.

By definition, Capitalism is an economic system controlled chiefly by individuals and private companies instead of by the government. In this system, individuals and companies own and direct most of the resources used to produce goods and services, including land and other natural resources labor, and “capital”. “Capital” includes factories and equipment and sometimes the money used in businesses (Friedman, 5).

Michael Moore used comical tactics as a way to appeal to his audience in this piece of literature. Michael Moore’s argument is that capitalism is destroying the nation’s economy rather than helping to develop it. The poor are suffering, while the richer are getting richer. The arguments that Moore used may not be considered tangible by all, but he definitely did have the evidence to support his argument. Michael Moore purpose was to expose this ground breaking issue of the dominance of corporate America through video. He used the web source as a source to get his message across because he knew the internet would be accessible to many people. Moore in this film used the different elements of reasoning to identify the message he was sending