Basstrap
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Man,
has anybody else here seen this movie or read Moore's book (downsize this!) upon which it is based?
If you haven't you SOOOOOOO need to go watch the movie.
it will open your eyes to the capitalist world and it is VERY VERY funny!
The most disturbing thing I saw was the part of corporate welfare. Not something you hear of a lot in media.
Billions of dollors go to successful corporations in a sort of welfare - a free cash donation really.
More money is spend on this corporate welfare in the States thn is spend on social assistance!! there's something wrong there.
I'm not saying this is just in the states, but this is wehre Moore did his book tour.
The main crux of the book centers on downsizing and how multi-million dollar corporations who are successful and making a lot of profit uproot and move somewhere else leaving hundereds of families without jobs.
There was one scene when he snuck a camera inside and asked a manager why they were moving.
(paraphrasing)
manager: We're making so much profit that it seems best to move and be more competitive.
Moore: So your saying that because the people are such good workers and they make you so successful that your going.
manager: yes
Moore: so if they had reached this profit years earlier and were 10 times more productive they would have been out of jobs even earlier?
manager: yes
There's lots of funny parts in the movie. He's always causing problems and pissing people off.
go see it!
has anybody else here seen this movie or read Moore's book (downsize this!) upon which it is based?
If you haven't you SOOOOOOO need to go watch the movie.
it will open your eyes to the capitalist world and it is VERY VERY funny!
The most disturbing thing I saw was the part of corporate welfare. Not something you hear of a lot in media.
Billions of dollors go to successful corporations in a sort of welfare - a free cash donation really.
More money is spend on this corporate welfare in the States thn is spend on social assistance!! there's something wrong there.
I'm not saying this is just in the states, but this is wehre Moore did his book tour.
The main crux of the book centers on downsizing and how multi-million dollar corporations who are successful and making a lot of profit uproot and move somewhere else leaving hundereds of families without jobs.
There was one scene when he snuck a camera inside and asked a manager why they were moving.
(paraphrasing)
manager: We're making so much profit that it seems best to move and be more competitive.
Moore: So your saying that because the people are such good workers and they make you so successful that your going.
manager: yes
Moore: so if they had reached this profit years earlier and were 10 times more productive they would have been out of jobs even earlier?
manager: yes
There's lots of funny parts in the movie. He's always causing problems and pissing people off.
go see it!