A Must Watch –> Capitalism: A Love Story by Michigander Michael Moore.

In this documentary, Michael Moore has explains how the extreme version of capitalism that America employs domestically is a disservice to the American people, maybe even war on the American people. In prior generations, one could argue that this sort of capitalism was needed to have proper footing for American interests abroad, but I think we have gone too far. Our financial system and its values are examples of this transgression. Americans should have the basic needs to pursuit happiness and a prosperous life if they choose to do so, not because they deserve it, but because it is for the common good, and we can afford it.

Also, America has been very successful at teaching its people, i.e. the poor and middle class, that peace, tolerance and coexistence is better for the common good, even though we have the constitutional right to bear arms. In short, I’m saying that in the past, if someone was trying to take your home, whether a bank, a crook, or both, they would be met with a shotgun. Now, we, Americans, don’t live like barbarians so we need to see that also from top level corporations and decision makers.

I’m from a small, working-class town in the Midwest, more specifically Michigan like Moore himself, and went to Emory, where a lot of bright kids typically go work for places like Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers (RIP), and other corporations that are complicit in this Plunder (another great documentary). So his documentary particularly resonates with me because I saw the things mentioned happen before my eyes.