You know, I've often thought it's very ironic that I'm able to do all this and yet what am...
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Michael Moore:
You know, I've often thought it's very ironic that I'm able to do all this and yet what am I on? I'm on networks. I'm distributed by studios that are owned by large corporate entities. Now, why would they put me out there when I am opposed to everything that they stand for? And I spend my time on their dime opposing what they believe in. Well, it's because they don't believe in anything. They put me on there because they know that there's millions of people that want to see my film or watch the TV show, and so they're gonna make money. And I've been able to get my stuff out there because I'm driving my truck through this incredible flaw in capitalism, the greed flaw. The thing that says that the rich man will sell you the rope to hang himself with if he thinks he make a buck off it. Well, I'm the rope. I hope. I'm part of the rope. And they also believe that when people watch my stuff, or maybe watch this film, or whatever, they think that, you know, they'll watch this and they won't do anything because we've done such a good job of numbing their minds and dumbing them down, you know. People aren't gonna leave the couch and go an do something political. They're convinced of that. I'm convinced of the opposite. I'm convinced that a few people are gonna leave this movie theatre or get up off the couch and go and do something, anything, to get this world back in our hands.
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Especially because you know I bought first class tickets
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So you know it would be a comfortable ride at least
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you know and of course he tells me then on camera
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I ve never been to Indonesia
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And I m like taken aback by this
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I cant believe it
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The guys the head of the company
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he s never walked through his own factories
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Oh you ve got to go
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I cant go right now and the rest of this year
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When we were done filming he calls me up
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a couple of weeks later and he goes
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I may have a chance to go there with you to the factories
Clip duration: 33 seconds
Views: 89
Timestamp in movie: 00h 50m 46s
Uploaded: 01 April, 2022
Genres: documentary, history
Summary: Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.
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01:06 Drawing the metaphor of the early attempts to fly
00:37 The breast cancer gene
00:22 It should not surprise us that corporate allegiance
00:22 Of the modern business corporation
01:10 The dominant role of corporations in our lives
00:44 Well the whole idea of the export processing zone
00:35 Cosmetics weed killers
00:34 Through their food
00:49 Factory farm cows have not been the only victims
01:04 There are times when you think about it
01:09 One of the questions that comes up periodically
01:12 It is never a decision that any CEO makes lightly
00:38 The corporation is not a person
00:36 What if it never ran
00:34 It can go back
00:18 The pursuit of profit is an old story
00:45 With deregulation privatization free trade
00:32 Privatization does not mean you take a public institution
00:30 The goal for the corporations is to maximize profit
00:33 About how they feel about things