Saturday, November 20, 2010

bad job



If you had any doubts that the white man is responsible for the economic excrementstorm currently ruining everyone's lives, Inside Job will tell you, doubt no more! There are some supervillains running the financial world. They have private jets, and multiple houses, and expensive prostitutes, and mountains of cocaine, and lie, and no morals, or even scrupples. Like, they'll totally tell Congress it's cool to sell people stocks that yr company is betting will fail. Or that selling debt around is totally okay. Or...maybe I don't remember that much. This documentary was very dense, and Matt Damon's voice is really great, and when he says stuff, it's easy to see it's important by his tone, but there was so much! So it's impressive that Inside Job explains the whole financial meltdown from the beginning and tries really hard to bring you up to speed. It's almost like a lecture on the subject, complete with charts and graphs. Also, very slick and neat, with some charm and some good humor. I recommend it when it's streaming and you're in the mood for loving good guys and hating bad guys. It's all real, too, is what might get you. It's all about stuff that's effecting our lives right now. I guess it's all the fault of the government for not regulating certain activities in American finance, and so there has been a rotation where the same people are economics professors or government officials or working for private companies, and they all kind of switch places, and that even with Obama, all the same dudes are in power so it's just business as usual. There have been some amazing people trying to make things right but they have no power and they get squashed. Maybe this documentary will help. It might be totally on YouTube, too

In conclusion, I hate rich people.

4 comments:

  1. yeah, fuck rich people. really, i feel really hopeless about the world and this documentary probably won't help.

    like, i don't even understand why kids should try in school because most of them will not have a chance at success.

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  2. that preview was really good. i liked the music.

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  3. it's so slick! totally beautiful. way prettier than waiting for superman, which was really pretty, and way more depressing. at least there are good people in education doing good things and trying hard. in finance, it's all supervillains.

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  4. you've seen all the killer documentaries these days.

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