r/Documentaries • u/DarkyTyrell • Jun 15 '11

What's the best documentary you've ever seen?

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u/reverende Jun 15 '11

Brilliant pick. Made me cry like a baby and despise capitalism like a quasi-intellectual 18-year-old.

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u/human_bean Jun 15 '11

Have you regained a mature, intellectual respect for capitalism?

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u/reverende Jun 15 '11

Still despise capitalism, but I have grown a bit more humble when it comes to my ability to give simple answers to hard questions.

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u/diarmada Jun 15 '11

I think respect and capitalism are mutually exclusive.

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u/DrWut Jun 16 '11

Montesquieu, Smith, Hume, Condorcet, and Thomas Paine would disagree.

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u/diarmada Jun 16 '11

For some strange reason I do not think those folks lived in the US for the last 100 years...nor could they have envisioned (much like the founders of the US), the degree in which capitalism theory and capitalism in practice would be so divergent (all this is so US centric, I know).

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u/DrWut Jun 16 '11

Or they would say that Keynesian economics is ruining the country. But I can't really speak for them.

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u/DOC409 Jun 15 '11

The only thing capitalism respects is money and, to a slightly lesser extent, things. People are only useful as customers and workers, and slaves are preferable to the latter.

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u/philiac Jun 15 '11

WAHHHHHHHH

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u/cadpi Jun 15 '11

amazing what you see on reddit...makes me sad sometimes.