martes, 13 de julio de 2010

Capitalism, a love story



Capitalism is unfaithful.
A big love story it must be for put up with it, with Capitalism. That's the message of Moore in his last movie. The love is not, however, too present in the film, and it can only be supposed for the bankers and other profiters of the system. Seen from an European point of view, the situation can be seen a little bit differently. Cause we have also capitalism, but truly saying a more social one. But even us in Europe we have some similarities with the situation showed by Moore in his film. One of the main points in his explanation of how the destiny of America has fallen in hands of the economic power is the fact of how economic power has been able to pressure* the legislative power, the Congress and Senate to vote by contributors paying seven hundred thousand millions of dollars (700.000.000.000 $) to the banks theoretically for that they don't go bankrupt. In America people have not right to social rights like in Europe, but here we have been also paying bank's bills without always the biggest guarantees. So, the film tries to show how the economic power only tries to defends its interests and how without legal limits it acts against the interests of people. In fact, it seems to be also that while thousands and even millions of people are thrown out of their houses in United States for not being able to pay the bills other little minority makes business of this, even of people death (necessary to see the film for understand this point) and gets payed millions while peoples money is used to finance the stability of banks and banks doesn't use their money for any social purpose. In fact, according to the film, which quotes the study of an American economist in the States 1% of the population owns 99% of the wealthiness of the country and the 99% of the rest of the people owns only the rest 1%. So, Michael Moore, argues in favor of democracy for that the constitution and peoples political rights and rights to dignity were applied in politics across their votes. The documentary finishes with the electoral campaign of Obama, which promises socio-economic rights to the people. Economic power tried to stop his way to he White House, and even if Obama is not a socialist, neither a revolutionary, as banks and their payed republicans argued, some changes have begun to have place, as the public health care program, which doesn't appear in the film, but which is already a reality, but as Moore shows during his record, many other changes are necessary, necessary for a more equilibrated society, where ones welfare would not be built on the basis of the exploitation of others or the unbalance of the welfare of the society.
So, it seems that love arrived to its finish. Its the time of reforms.

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