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It’s a Wonderful Life (With Capitalism)

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Unlearn the Propaganda!

  • Johnnie Bravo!

    Excellent!
    Is that Yuri Maltsev’s son? :D

  • http://plenarchist.wordpress.com/ plenarchist

    Nice vid. It occurred to me the other day that capitalism is the competition to make people happier… how great is that?

  • guest

    Tom, you have to see that movie “In Time”. As an Austrian Economist, it should be really interesting to pick it apart.
    It’s cool how they crafted a world where time is the currency, so it really is an entertaining movie (if you excuse the part about humans being genetically modified to die after a certain number of years). Heavy collectivist themes, though; Total propaganda.
    It seems to be an attack on the Time Preference Theory of Interest and on the concept of “planned obsolescence”.
    One of the themes is “No one should live forever if even one person has to die”, which can be taken as an argument against profit.

  • Douc

    It’s also done by an amusing process and it is by constant, mutual gift giving. Because whatever action defined by capitalism is about, both parties must necessarily be better off – a priori the exchange of titles to property. And even more amusingly it fulfils supposed need for greater good of the greater number aim – whoever does that gets rich, because he adds most to society in objective terms (absent gov). Imagine that – it’s even better than you thought!