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Capitalism: A Love Story

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Capitalism: A Love Story is a 2009 documentary, by Michael Moore. Twenty years after attacking General Motors' anti-worker policies in Roger & Me, Moore documents what he believes to be the detrimental role that Neoliberal-Neoclassical policies and big business play in our lives, how they caused the Great Recession, and how it will take people demanding change, and not compromising or giving in, for anything substantial to upset the status quo.
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Harsher in Hindsight: In-Universe, Michael Moore shows a clip from his first documentary Roger & Me, where he discusses with General Motors' Tom Kay the possibility that all the GM jobs in Flint, Michigan could be lost if GM wanted to avoid bankruptcy. Four months before Capitalism was released in the US, GM declared bankruptcy, by which time almost all the GM factories in Flint had shuttered.
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Capitalism Is Bad: This documentary sets out to argue against Capitalism as its writers understand it, going as far as to equate it with sin.
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Hiding Behind Religion: The film presents many crooked businessmen as doing this, claiming their ill-gotten gains as a gift from God, while a Catholic priest argues that capitalism is incompatible with the teachings of Christianity (Moore is an active Catholic). To drive the point further, clips from Jesus of Nazareth with edited dialogue appear to show what Jesus would be like as a capitalist:
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: Capitalism in general is criticized, so this is a given.
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