I am strangely self-conscious today. I think it's because I wore my hair curly and also realized that I have finally acquired that annoying Minnesota twang. My work phone voice is an off-putting mixture between north side Chicago soccer mom, with a little bit of Texas, and now, to my utter dismay, some yeah, sure, ya betcha thrown in. It's gross. Maybe it's time to move to a new state.
Otherwise, I was sitting in traffic the other night and thinking about how so many people I know are always like "fuck capitalism", etc, etc, etc. This is frustrating, especially since many of my friends sadly identify Michael Moore as their hero. That's pathetic and in some ways ironic, since he took advantage of his enemy, capitalism, to make his own tidy fortune. But what does one expect of people like him?
The way I see it capitalism is a product of Mill's principal of utility, aka "the greatest good for the greatest number". And before you give me the crazy look (I get that a lot), I am well aware that the more immediately logical economic system to be paired with Mill is probably socialism or some other derivative of it. But if we were to entertain my thought process as it pertains to opportunity, I think it becomes much clearer that capitalism not only provides the best incentive to a greater number of people, but probably also a greater reward. And since I am nothing short of a Reagan lover, I am naturally a believer in the trickle down theory.
So as those most able and willing to take advantage of opportunity generate economic activity, they create jobs, they buy other people's products, their ideas grow and in the end the greatest good for the greatest number is optimized through ingenuity. That makes sense to me. I know nothing is that simple and I know I probably know more about earth worms than I do the economy, but simple logic tells me that there are few, if any, alternatives to capitalism. Unless of course, my Michael Moore loving friends are holding out on me with big plans for a new economic structure.
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since he took advantage of his enemy, capitalism,
Huh?
Mr. Moore's primary intention may have been to out rightly challenge President Bush and his administration in his "master piece" Fahrenheit 911 (which, by the by, is sooo factually accurate). Though this may be mere speculation, I believe Moore set out to make a butt-load of mad cash. Otherwise, what would the point of endless promotions and carefully selected DVD release dates be?
Sure he wanted to get the word out and maybe that's it, but why didn't he forgo his profits and donate it all to charity, moveon.org, Amnesty Intn'l, the Red Cross...whatever. My point was that Mr. Moore so desperately hates capitalism and everyone and everything which stands for it and all the while so blatantly exploited it to profit.
That makes me ill.
Sure he wanted to get the word out and maybe that's it, but why didn't he forgo his profits and donate it all to charity, moveon.org, Amnesty Intn'l, the Red Cross...whatever. My point was that Mr. Moore so desperately hates capitalism and everyone and everything which stands for it and all the while so blatantly exploited it to profit.
Why would he hate capitalism if he himself utilizes capitalism?
I have never heard him say he hates capitalism.
In fact I've read his books and he openly embraces it.
You accomplish nothing more than what you hate in Michael Moore's style when you take a statement and write it as fact when it is in fact written by the man to be untrue.
Moore hates Bush. He was wrong to make a movie such as he did in Farenheit which could inspire others to kill a man.
I have this deep down feeling that Moore is a closet socialist...that's all. Like I said, "not really sure where this came from". I've been wrong plenty of times but I just think Moore would be slightly satisfied to see free trade destroyed.
Y'all check out:
http://www.mooreexposed.com/
http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html
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