Moore today admitted he was in the 1% and gave us all a few good laughs.
4. What remained went into a simple, low-interest savings account. I made the decision that I would never buy a share of stock (I didn’t understand the casino known as the New York Stock Exchange and I did not believe in investing in a system I did not agree with).
He puts his money in a bank that is part of a system that he would be hopelessly confused were you try to explain it to him in lieu of the relatively straightforward process of buying a small share of equity in a publicly-traded company.
5. Finally, I believed the concept of making money off your money had created a greedy, lazy class who didn’t produce any product, just misery and fear among the populace.
Isn’t creating fear and misery among the populace what Moore does as his profession? If not, he certainly profits from it: had Flint, Michigan stayed the industrial giant it once was, would Moore have gotten his first $3m?
How did someone from the left get such a wide mainstream audience?!
It is interesting to get an insight into how others think. Moore thinks that left liberals have been excluded from the media.
I do very well – and for a documentary filmmaker, I do extremely well. That, too, drives conservatives bonkers. “You’re rich because of capitalism!” they scream at me. Um, no.
I’m breaking this one up because what follows next… read for yourselves:
Didn’t you take Econ 101? Capitalism is a system, a pyramid scheme of sorts, that exploits the vast majority so that the few at the top can enrich themselves more.
Emphasis mine. Moore asks conservatives if they took economics 101 (most probably didn’t, but that’s not the point.)
Some years I earn a boatload of cash. Other years, like last year, I don’t have a job (no movie, no book) and so I make a lot less.
Once again, he plays the poor boy from Michigan card. Only this time, he’s worth $50 million and wouldn’t need to work another day in his life if he so chose. If he’s feeling down from not having a job, he can always apply at McDonald’s. That is, if he isn’t trying to shut them down and put everyone else out of work too.
The fact that anyone takes Michael Moore seriously is truly mystifying.
