Sunday, 4 October 2009
Michael Moore - Hypocrite Extroardinare
As you might already know, Michael Moore has a new movie called "Capitalism: A Love Story". I haven't seen the movie, but I have read that is a massive propaganda piece about how evil capitalism is. Asked about the hypocrisy of making a movie disparaging capitalism while amassing a fortune of over $50 milllion dollars Moore claims that capitalism has done nothing for him.
I find it laughable when he complains how the system is not set up to help somebody from the working class. Yet somehow he managed to do it. If he can do it why can't others? It makes me laugh when poltroons like Moore complain that success in capitalism isn't easy. Success is NEVER easy regardless of the system. Anyone that promises something for nothing is selling a lie. Which is why socialism is such a sick disease. It corrupts people into thinking they can get something for nothing. The only thing you get for nothing is abject poverty and slavery.
The only thing I can come up with is he doesn't understand the idea of capitalism. I noticed that most of his complaints are surrounded around large corporations. Maybe he is just anti-large company. There is a big difference between large companies and capitalism. While a capitalistic environment can lead the creation of large corporate entities, it is NOT capitalism. Regardless his screed against large companies fails due to his own success story. If it is impossible to succeed with these large companies about, then how did you do it Mr. Moore?
CNSNews.com then asked Moore: “Critics would say he’s [Moore] been very successful under a capitalist system. How would you justify making a movie where you paint capitalism as evil?”The rank hypocrisy of this statement is incredible. Capitalism did nothing for him? Let's see he was able to create a product that people wanted to watch. He then sold it to those people and made $50 million dollars. That is the definition of capitalism!!!! The whole point of capitalism is to create an environment (free market) where you can sell your labor. If what you provide is valuable you will get paid for your work. If it doesn't have any value then you aren't paid. Thus it is a system that promotes productive use of labor and resources.
Moore said: “Well, capitalism did nothing for me, starting with my first film.”
“You know, I had to pretty much beg, borrow and steal,” he said. “The system is not set up to help somebody from the working class make a movie like this and get the truth out there.”
“In fact, in Fahrenheit 9/11 if you remember, capitalism, the Disney Corporation, tried to kill that film--tried to make it so that people couldn’t see it,” said Moore. “My book Stupid White Men--Harper Collins tried to kill that book so that people couldn’t see it. It's
only because I put the light of day on it and told people what was going on did people get the chance to see these things.”
I find it laughable when he complains how the system is not set up to help somebody from the working class. Yet somehow he managed to do it. If he can do it why can't others? It makes me laugh when poltroons like Moore complain that success in capitalism isn't easy. Success is NEVER easy regardless of the system. Anyone that promises something for nothing is selling a lie. Which is why socialism is such a sick disease. It corrupts people into thinking they can get something for nothing. The only thing you get for nothing is abject poverty and slavery.
The only thing I can come up with is he doesn't understand the idea of capitalism. I noticed that most of his complaints are surrounded around large corporations. Maybe he is just anti-large company. There is a big difference between large companies and capitalism. While a capitalistic environment can lead the creation of large corporate entities, it is NOT capitalism. Regardless his screed against large companies fails due to his own success story. If it is impossible to succeed with these large companies about, then how did you do it Mr. Moore?
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