Consuming Hypocrisy

A consumption-hating experimental filmmaker goes on an anti-capitalism spending spree.

Category:

Comedy

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• Capitalism
• experimental
• freedom
• ad
• soymilk
• tofu
• vegan
• vegetarian
• chomsky
• filmmaking
• bike
• Michael
• Moore
• hemp
• consumption

[kidairbag]

Awesome video. I'm a bisexual, pot smoking, bike riding, vegetarian, indie film watching CAPITALIST.

I know it's not cool to support capitalism in hipster circles but honestly how would we piss off the establishment without it?

[ColonelCognitional]

If marijuana could be legalized, we would save billions on drug prohibition.

[Jaluzaga]

"Noam Chomsky hates capitalism too. I need to buy more Chomsky books."

[ravenwitch1]

@ravenwitch1 and no...it´s not socialism, it is called “sustentability systems” where the economy is not bases on the whims of some group at the top but on RATIONAL and quantified measures of natural resources available in a region. Capitalism ISN´T WORKING ANYMORE

[ravenwitch1]

jajajaja good clip but cheap ideas, keep trying. Anticapitalism is not about neglecting every act of consume but to do it in a responsible and conscious way:

consumer-capitalist: why have only one car when i can buy 3, so everyone sees how rich i am...also why walk to the market next block when i can get there in my car so everybody see me?

eco-concious: i have this one car for when im traveling far with my family, it´s cheap, safe and when im not using it I walk, take bus or bicycle...

[Coteincdr]

I love this video!!!!

[kimberlily1983]

@pinkkfloydd Profit motive drives... the search for profits. That's achieved through cutting costs, expanding markets, etc. Lowering wages, lowering the quality of goods, cheating people. That's the reality of your beautiful free market capitalism. You're right, it doesn't remain "free" for long: because it can't. It gets controlled by fewer and fewer people as time goes on, making it more difficult for the poor to join the ranks of the exploiters (for those who want to).

[pinkkfloydd]

@yviva And yes, we are born equally, but that does not guarantee us equal outcome, and nor should it. You should get what you have earned through hard work. No one has the right to steal land from others, that is a use of force, which is not allowed in a libertarian, free-market society. But if someone buys a piece a land from someone and uses it to make profit by consumers who are willing to pay for whatever services the landowner is providing, then good for him. Capitalism =/= anarchy.

[pinkkfloydd]

@yviva No it's not. You really don't understand what capitalism is apparently. For some weird reason, you think capitalism and anarchy are one in the same. You think that the government is absent in a free market society. The government would have three roles regarding the economy: 1)Prevent the use of aggression and force 2)To enforce contracts that are made 3) To enforce antifraud laws.

Private militias are not a part of free market capitalism because THAT IS A USE OF FORCE.

[yviva]

@pinkkfloydd

hey, if the government wasn't a tool of the capitalist powers and committing massive acts of aggression both around the world & domestically to further their own economic ends, the capitalists would be doing it with private militias. same story.

yes, i believe that as we are all born on to this earth equally no one has the right to claim that they own pieces of the earth and then force others to pay for the right to live on a piece of this earth. that is a capitalist trick.

[pinkkfloydd]

@yviva You're a fucking moron because that is not capitalism. AT ALL. That is corporatism sponsored by GOVERNMENT. Any libertarian/free market capitalist abhors use of force and aggression, so don't attribute capitalism with the atrocities committed by government backed special interests groups. And what is someone's "share of anything on this earth." People deserve what they work for and earned. It is NOT a right to steal from the rich just because you're jealous.

[pinkkfloydd]

@kimberlily1983 Good one. Under a socialist system, the individual has no power to freely exchange and engage with others. Under a socialist system, the individual is merely a tool to be used to help the "greater good." And you're fucking delusional if you think socialism is what promotes quality products and services and not capitalism. Wake the fuck up and stop being a socialist moron. Under a free market society (which we do NOT have), profit motive is what drives innovation and efficiency.