Hollywood Hates Capitalism - Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Edition

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Sep. 25, 2010

I love the line, "I once said greed is good, now it seems it's legal."

Surely people realize that makes absolutely no sense? When has "greed" ever been illegal? Greed is an emotion, it's a relativist desire, how would you make such an emotion illegal, and how would you legalize it? It's so idiotic it's baffling.

The most "greedy" institution in the world is government, that's the only instution who can steal from people and call it taxes and say it's for their own good. That's the only institution in the world who can rob literally everyone in a geographic location from the wealthiest to the poorest to pursue their own selfish desires with other people's money. Stealing from your neighbor to give some bailout to your campaign donors at Goldman Sachs is greedy, not running some profitable business where you serve your customers every whim for the mere hope of profit.

I should also note, "voting" to "raise taxes" (aka steal from) "the rich" is another "legal" entirely greedy act which can be done by the lowest pleb thanks to the institution that calls itself government.

To quote Frédéric Bastiat, "The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."

On the free market people need to give you their money voluntarily because they value your product more than the price you're asking for it, only when the exchange enriches them will they make the trade. With the government you just hold up a gun and tell them it's to help the poor (then spend the money to bomb some foreigners, of course). - Chris, InfoLib

Oliver Stone's uber-villain Gordon Gekko is back in the new film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which (surprise!) features greedy capitalists behaving badly. It might remind you of Avatar, Mission Impossible 2 or roughly a zillion other films in which capitalists destroy the environment, concoct killer viruses, harvest organs, and cover up murder in order to feed their lust of profit. Even when capitalism isn't the primary target, the representatives of commerce are often flat-out repulsive (think Jabba the Hutt).

Perhaps it's ironic that Hollywood filmmakers practice what they preach against. Sure he palls around with socialist dictators Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, but there's no doubt Oliver Stone hopes to rake in obscene profits with his new flick.

Approximately 1.35 minutes.

Written and produced by Ted Balaker; Associate Producer: Paul Detrick; Post Production Supervisor: Hawk Jensen













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