Che - The Movie
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Western style capitalism sure works for you, rafalski. You all make a fair amount of money, based on a "fair" system of humanity and equality for everyone. You don't have free health care and it doesn't work neither for tourists or Michael Moore (who is an American, I guess), but you still have waiting lists for seriously ill locals and high health care bills while people are turned away and denied health care if they are, hmm, poor? The way up the list is based on social status with cash passed ON the table (just like it was and still is in most capitalist countries).
You are allowed to freely travel outside the country - except the ones you invade, there you are not safe, and the number of those is rising, mind you.
You are allowed to own mobile phones. Not because the state wants to give you freedom, but because the state wants to listen to your conversations at will. The networks are privately owned but heavily subsidized by low interest loans from the government (read: your tax money built the network that is profiting from you). As I said earlier, internet at home indicates it is probably monitored by the home security office of some kind.That's some freedom you have there, innit?
There's secret police everywhere. Locals will not tell you anything because they are mostly uninformed. Sometimes they tell you things like that there is hunger in places like inner city ghettos where tourists don't go.
Capitalism corrupted everyone's minds, like it always did. Corruption isn't a pathology there, it is the way of life.
Capitalists rob the people in every possible way, while the state knows about it and assists them. It is called the free economy or the new world order, take a pick. There are security guards everywhere and if you fit racial profiling, my oh my...This system cannot sustain itself, that's why it only relies on the business world sponsorship. After that stops, and after a few years of extreme poverty, maybe you will understand. The U.S. would hardly survive if it weren't for third world countries cheap resources. A good outcome of tourism is you can at last talk to people with different opinions.
The funniest thing about capitalism is that it is actually pure fiction these days. Since soon you won't be able survive on your wage, most of you will get fired anyway and then what? You won't be able sell your home/apartment, the bank will foreclose on you, hoping they'll bring in profit in the future. Officially, the ownership doesn't ever change.
In the West, mostly the U.S. most of you will take up student loans and pay them for the rest of your lives, and that is a true mark of an advanced society. Brilliant!