Things That Came to Me After Watching Capitalism: A Love Story

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

Capitalism is a social system based on the principle of individual rights. Politically, it is the system of laissez-faire (freedom). Legally it is a system of objective laws (rule of law as opposed to rule of man). Economically, when such freedom is applied to the sphere of production its result is the free-market. Capitalism might not be a perfect system, but it is not that evil. There is evidence proven that capitalism has helped the U.S. become the wealthiest nation. The primary concept of capitalism is totally devoted to the creation

However, some may come to the deeper meaning of this text that the author was trying to get across. Some being the flaws of Capitalism and the “American Dream”; Social Darwinism, only the financially “fit” survive; and how Socialism could be the answer to those who need support financially. These issues have trailed the United States for many years, one example of a result of these issues is the creation of the Black Panther Party in the 1960’s; due to African American’s limited rights, inability to find a good paying job, and cold hatred towards the government. However, because of the ignorance by the majority of upper-class citizens, they would interpret the book as an attempt to persuade others to look down on Capitalism due to the struggles portrayed in the book in result of corrupt rich folk.

In America, most of our parents at a very early age that we should be grateful for what we have. Even with these teachings Americans are finding it hard to do just that. American Capitalism is built off of the concept that anybody can buy property, open a practice/start a business, and profit off of it. One thing that both “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald and “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck teach us is that the system of American capitalism isn’t perfect. Both of these books show both sides of capitalism, those who make it and those who don’t. In both books the rich are ignoring the bad things they inflict on the poor because it makes them richer and more powerful. As Rick Danko said, “As time goes on we get closer to that

Capitalism is basically the form of society we have in America. Capitalism is where there is a collection of individual businesses that are individually owned with little influence by the government. These businesses are set up by three things human skill, human manpower, and resources.

So what is capitalism really? According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, capitalism is “an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market”. In all words, capitalism is a system where you are allowed to have private property. I think the government are the antagonist of the movie Atlas Shrugged because not only are the taking over companies and material rights, setting how production is going to work, and wanting everyone to have their “fair share”.

Capitalism is good. In reading the articles, it seems scholars are either pro or anti-capitalism. The corporate American model of capitalism is built upon free enterprise and encourages competition. It’s also called the Liberal/Social Democratic model. Our economy, supposedly, encourages and rewards competition and equality. Yet the lack of competition and equality in our economy are issues scholars take aim at the most. George (2013) wrote in his editorial, “In the United States, income inequality has escalated since the 1970s while millions of workers and their families are suffering the devastation of long-term unemployment or work that is insecure and unstable….That is, the tenets of American corporate capitalism (ACC) might be in contradiction to compassionate organizing. ACC is an ideology that emphasizes, among other things, the pursuit of self-interest, competition, market exchange, consumerism, and using a profit/loss criterion to make decisions in organizations (George, J. 2013).” I’m pro-capitalism and I understand the views of those who are anti-capitalism.

Capitalism, to me ,seems to be one of the best things that could happen to our country. After reading How Capitalism Saved America and after watching Capitalism A Love Story, I have became more aware of what’s going on around. Before our country became overly government regulated inflation didn’t occur , family were able to survive off of one income , and business were able to flourish freely .

Mr. Stanley quit his job waterproofing basements before Mrs. Stanley's new business was successful.This situation reveals capitalism because it was the Stanley family choice to make the decision to compromising on whether it be successful or not because capitalism is all about taking risks.Some say that capitalism is unfair because the government may need to intervene like the Stanley family.It is not fair that the family had to pay 30,000 in medical bills because Mr.Stanley got sick. However,i still say that capitalism is fair because it takes money from society and anyone can get sick so the government can’t pay for everyone.

Capitalism, economic system where the central topics include private property, accumulation and wage labour. In this film,

American History Essay Subject: Compare and contrast fascism, communism and capitalism in theory and in practice. Throughout history, different ways of political and economic organization have developed in different places. Many philosophers have tried to put into practice different theories to define and even control the economic and political organization of the population but some of these theories have failed to work in practice. Capitalism is a political and economic system that promotes the increase of one’s wealth, giving personal freedom, having limited government intervention, free market and private ownership.

Capitalism started up as a system of investing and sharing money in order to increase the value of resources in the future. Capitalism was just an economic system, but then soon turned into a complex system of ethical practices. Harari defines capitalism as, “a set of teachings about how people should behave, educate their children and even think” (Harari 314). This economic system evolved along with the people that were endorsing it. Capitalism enables the rich to get richer, while the poor continue to get poorer. There are many benefits to capitalism, but there are downfalls as well, and these downfalls tend to be masked because of the rapid speed capitalists grow at. Harari first presents a definition for capitalism, and soon goes into great detail on why capitalism, while fast paced and unforgiving, is able to stand unwavered while other productions fail.

“Capitalism A love Story “ I would have to suggested as a must see movie. Personally rating “Capitalism A lover Story “ with 2 thumbs up, this documentary was a well put together film with brilliant ideas and creativity to illustrate the critical destruction of capitalism from empirically aspect.

Capitalism: A Love Story was directed my Michael Moore who is an American documentary filmmaker, it is 127min long and was released in 2009 in USA. The film shows families are being evicted from their homes while the business of real estate agencies flourished with the increasing number of foreclosures

Capitalism is when the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer. Capitalism has mercy on no one. Each individual lives in a society where the mass crowd complain about how the big business are buying the smaller ones but just doesn’t grasp the idea that all this is happening because of the consumers themselves. Within a system just as there is pros there are also cons, cons that are costly in the end. One of the biggest cons that capitalism promote is wealth inequality. Wealth can be inherited, so some people can be rich just due to luck of their ancestors. The others that are not so lucky has to work hard for their earnings. So this becomes a problem because not only does it promotes wealth inequality, it also promotes inequality of opportunity. Capitalist societies are failing to create both equality of outcomes and equality of opportunities. Example of this is the Great depression which lasted from 1929 to the beginning of World War II, profoundly shook the world’s confidence in the capitalist system. The crisis began with the crash of the New York stock market and resulted in widespread economic damage throughout the world, including bank failures, massive unemployment, and bankruptcies. According to the article Capitalism it states, “In addition, the suffering that resulted from the Great Depression highlighted the vulnerability of the labor force. In the United States, 25 percent of workers lost their jobs, and bank failures wiped out many people’s life savings.”