Mais um documentário do norte-americano Michael Moore, a denunciar exemplarmente o sonho americano, o capitalismo ultra-liberal e a democracia na terra do Tio Sam. Ler, ver ou ouvir declarações de anteriores presidentes, conferem a esta crítica uma perspectiva histórica. Nós, o povo, andamos a dormir em serviço.
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MISSIONARY: Look at you! You’re just wasting your life away, lying around like that.
SAMOAN: Why? What do you think I should be doing?
MISSIONARY: Well, there are plenty of coconuts all around here. Why not dry some copra and sell it?
SAMOAN: And why would I want to do that?
MISSIONARY: You could make a lot of money. And with the money you make, you could get a drying machine, and dry copra faster, and make even more money.
SAMOAN: Okay. And why would I want to do that?
MISSIONARY: Well, you’d be rich. You could buy land, plant more trees, expand operations. At that point, you wouldn’t even have to do the physical work anymore, you could just hire a bunch of other people to do it for you.
SAMOAN: Okay. And why would I want to do that?
MISSIONARY: Well, eventually, with all that copra, land, machines, employees, with all that money—you could retire a very rich man. And then you wouldn’t have to do anything. You could just lie on the beach all day.
excerpt from Debt: The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber
Este arquivo único conta um pedaço da história americana contemporânea, bem como da forma como se dá a volta à cabeça do consumidor
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