Syriana - Corruption

Syriana (2005)
Directed by Stephen Gaghan
Distributed by Warner Bros.

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Entertainment

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• syriana
• corruption

[abskebabs]

truer words have hardly ever been spoken on film.

[hani273nhk]

my favorite scene of the movie: "Corruption is our protection. Corruption is what keeps us safe and warm. Corruption is why you and I are here prancing around here instead of fighting each other for scraps of meat out there in the streets. Corruption; is why we win."

[kogii77]

thats American way of democracy for you all 'as long as l get what l want you are free'

[proadmin1]

@allan199476 Yeah but it's the "messy" part that justifies the entirety of what passes for our social support structures. Consider unemployment insurance in fact does provide a real net economic benefit, because millions of people forestall/avoid homelessness and all the consequences of that to the nuclear family / basic society. It provides a level of stability that allows the middle class to continue to exist, it allows people to continue going to school, training, working on projects etc.

[allan199476]

@proadmin1 i think though, that if that happened in a global economy, a country wouldn't be affected. If in his version, government was truly limited to defense and ... i forget what other government agency he kept in that speech. If it was a global economy, another company could forseeably take it's place and grow and expand, of course, it'd still be messy. Truthfully though, I've never taken a class in economics, and im just guessing.

[IamFreeRu]

100% agree with the dialogue. Corruption is widely utilized, but is a hush hush subject. Youd never catch a corrupt/successful businessman speaking like this.

[stgodless]

you've got to interpret this as corruption that results from govt regulations... .btw Friedman never actually said this..

[AlGhaffar]

@proadmin1 Thanks for the insight. I will look it up. No rationality is correct. Too many went beyond greedy. Greed is natural, we are only humans, but when some imply sooo much greed into decision making, it just becomes stupidity. Again, thank you for the Mr Friedman stuff... and peace, friend!

[proadmin1]

@AlGhaffar He did a video series in the 70's thats here on youtube for the most part. He's important from a business perspective, I think because he speaks directly to the free market impulse - particularly in the US. But what he fails pretty epically on is the notion - that we ALL got to see in the last few years - is what happens when corporations do not behave rationally / in their own interests - which is a fundamental notion of modern economics. Old Mr. Friedman doesn't have a good answer.

[AlGhaffar]

@proadmin1 I didn't read much about Friedman. I am studying business, not economics. But, generally, the subject of business is being demonstarted too much as a scientific subject lately. Business is about decision making, decisions that are logical. Not too much of a scientific subject. Hey, thanks for sharing, sounds interesting. I might look into Friedman more.

[proadmin1]

@AlGhaffar What's freaking scary is that - at the end of the day Friedman is _theoretically_ usually pretty correct, but pretty much like no other argument I know, his deep understanding of economics,but on a practical level, it demonstrates the difference between practical reality and theory like nothing I know.

[AlGhaffar]

@proadmin1 OK. Now, i see how it makes sense then. Btw, I agree. Many scenes are accurate.