Capitalism Is the Devil The United States was founded by numerous founders who wanted to build the best nation in the world. According to the Constitution, the right should be given to “We the People”. The government should build “a more perfect Union” and promote “the General Welfare”. It has always been a dream. It is a goal that we cannot reach. But somehow, capitalism has been disguised as the best system ever devised, making citizens believe that it is the only way we can reach our goal. And it leads us to an irreversible situation of plutocracy. It is Michael Moore who pulls back the curtain on capitalism to reveal the insidious role it has played in the destruction of our American dream. In his documentary film “Capitalism a love story”, Michael Moore demonstrates the failure of Capitalism as an economic system in America. The movie explores what capitalism is, who benefits and whom capitalism hurts. Moore shows us how capitalism has been hijacked by entrepreneurs and how it jeopardizes the middle class. The poorest, uneducated, and hardworking middle class are the most likely people to be taken advantage of by the unscrupulous corporations such as the home loan industry, health insurance industry and many others businesses. According to the film, some people are no longer able to live in their own house, which they live for decades, because they cannot pay their bills or the authorities have sold their land to corporations. Kids in Pennsylvania are sent to private detention centers for minor offenses by judges who received kickbacks from the prison company. And airline pilots whose wages are so low they have to go on food stamps. Some giant corporations buy life insurance for their employees and benefit millions of dollars from their employees’ death. Moore claims that it is the Wall Street profit machine that drives this suffering, which had been abetted by deregulation during the Reagan, Clinton and Bush administrations. Special interest groups sent their agents to Washington to change the politicians’ minds so that they could stop the regulations that were in their way. Without the regulations, those rich corporations would have become even wealthier. They even spent the bailout, the taxpayers’ money, on their entertainment and bonuses instead of stimulating the terrible economy. At the end, Michael Moore concludes, “Capitalism is an evil and you can’t regulate evil. You have to replace it with something that is good for everyone.” And he suggests replacing the current system, not with socialism, but with a true democracy in which the masses vote out government officials who are in the pocket of the powerful and wealthy elite. I clearly remember a rude Wall Street guy who, when Moore asks for some advice, replies “Don’t make any more movies.” I disagree with him. In fact, we should thank Moore more for producing this movie. I’m glad Michael Moore is out there, stirring up trouble, digging up unpleasant truths, reminding us of things we might rather forget. It's new and disturbing to learn, for instance, that a number of airline pilots supplement their meager paychecks with food stamps or by selling their blood plasma. Remember that they are the ones who guard our safety up in the air. Moore insists that capitalism is making people dead. It forces people to focus on profit and to discard other morality and values. And he believes that without exaggeration, America will be ruined by capitalism. Furthermore, I am looking forward to see more opinions about capitalism in order to see the whole perspective. So I will try to collect more information online and see what is really going on.