Monday, August 16, 2010

The End of Poverty ? - Movie Review

by Ron Wilkinson from CADTM. I've seen this film recently and regard it as a must-see film.
The international banking industry and the international corporation have joined forces to create what is the modern large scale version of the old American “company store.” Best known in isolated mining towns, the corporation would build the company store to provide the necessities of life to its workers in the town. The wages of the workers and the prices in the company store would be aligned so that the workers never had any money left over at the end of the month. This ensured that the workers would never have the capital to be independent of the company or, even worse, to compete against it.