Capilalismo

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capilalismoCapitalism: A love story
Most Americans believe that capitalism is a system of the production and distribution of preferred goods and services in return for what consumers are willing topay for them, and that this system is the bedrock on which the United States is built and upon which the country should function. This system may have functioned well in the United States of the postWorld War II era when there was little global competition and which truly established the middle class, but nowadays things had changed.
However capitalism as seen in the United States today ismore about the want of the wealthy to get wealthier at the expense of all others, for example in the movie, the country at that time started to be run more like a business than like a traditionalgovernment, so everything was only about the money the country has and only caring about the economy and industrial development. Since, there has been a manipulation by the power brokers on Wall Street ofgovernment for their benefit, often at the expense of the dwindling middle class and working class, and often without that production of a good or service demanded by society.
The system continues tooperate as most Americans attempt to be among the wealthy and see capitalism as a system where becoming wealthy is at least possible, that´s why capitalism is often associated with the ideals ofChristianity and the concurrent American ideal of democracy, the latter which is increasingly not the case, where economic power is held in the hands of the few. Corporate America's biggest fear isdemocracy where in a one person/one vote system, a wealthy person has as much power as a poor person. With the poor increasingly grew more than the wealthy, the poor banding together may show capitalism forwhat it is, at least in today's global system.
I think that since United States started to worry more about the wealth of the country they stop thinking on the society, on the way society was...
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