tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post9089831294289052895..comments2023-10-06T18:20:09.127+02:00Comments on 40° 24' N , 3° 42' E: Capitalism: A love storyVictoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15567196006173884087noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-79483052561417408572010-07-02T21:27:46.057+02:002010-07-02T21:27:46.057+02:00Love the clipLove the cliptoddtuckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15562945496127256584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-34859508959051855992010-07-01T00:57:40.421+02:002010-07-01T00:57:40.421+02:00Hi Blacklight!!
Hey, its so rare I get such a gre...Hi Blacklight!!<br /><br />Hey, its so rare I get such a great and detailed comment, I really welcome it! Finally!<br /><br />Well, I don't live in Kuwait anymore actually! I have moved to Spain. <br /><br />You raise a bunch of interesting points. <br /><br />1) Regarding Michael Moore, I totally agree that it is the capitalist system that makes his movies go round. He was actually called out on it apparently, because his film screening was done in the "Visa Screening Room" of a theatre, a totally corporate-sponsored venue. He acknowledged the irony.<br /><br />2) Regarding Kuwait: The United States and Kuwait are incomparable but if we want to talk about the application of Moore's argument in Kuwait...I completely agree with you that unfortunately, government handouts and bailouts in Kuwait have gone too far. They have made people complacent and as you say have stifled creativity, excellence and self-accomplishment. Lets not forget that a democracy is a social contract, citizens are endowed with not only rights, but deep responsibilities to the country as well. Attention on the latter has been overshadowed by short-term capture, and in the long-term its really doing Kuwait an injustice. The lack of ambition and work ethic is extremely harmful to the country's future. On a last point, I sometimes see Kuwait as "financially unsustainable", in the fact that a country with one of the highest GDPs per capita has a minimum wage of under 100 KD a month. The system as it exists now in Kuwait is a result of not only capture, but exploitation of cheap labor. You can't look at the Kuwait economic system without opening one's eyes to the fact that more than 2/3 of the labor market consists of people with absolutely no voice and little economic security. If anything, I would think that economic rights in Kuwait needs to focus on this to bring it up to international standards for high-income countries. <br /><br />What comment did I make on your blog?Victoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15567196006173884087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693902872333225859.post-3817858100234118512010-06-30T18:16:19.326+02:002010-06-30T18:16:19.326+02:00dear Victoria
in spite of the dramatic tone in hi...dear Victoria<br /><br />in spite of the dramatic tone in his documanteries Moore opinions and ideals sound flawless specially in this issue which i prefer to call "world war 3" <br /><br />yah its a war between elties and regular people that is not happening everywhere else not just the US. <br /><br />one thing i would like to clear out and you should have noticed it since you are residing in Kuwait currently ,is the issue of economical rights and how can some people turn this noble set of legislations into a selfish abusive tool . <br /><br />An ideal economical system should protect people economically and at the same time encourage them to compete not for survival but for creativity, excellence and self accomplishment. In Kuwait people are overprotected thanks to legislations similar to the second bill of rights you mentioned in your topic that's why they became too relaxed to even think of competition . <br /><br />when it comes to the system everybody during the last economical crises blamed captilaism including Moore who is unaware that Captilism is the main reason why the US media including his works is spread worldwide.<br /><br />what happened was a human error an accident like you see in the road daily. capitalism was not meant to be perfect because the word perfect doesn't exist in our real world .you may think that a hybrid system would be better I'm afraid that's not necessarily true , here in Kuwait the government is abusing its economical control acting similar to a communist authority against people protecting the the interests of the elites granting them the benefits of a capitalist system. <br /><br />P.S<br />i remembered you when you commented in my blog a long time ago :)blacklighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11643380898148220033noreply@blogger.com