Capitalism paper rough draft

The boy really needed his job and was willing to do anything to keep it. His boss gave him another option to get his job back: If they boy would be able to get the bike back ,he could keep his job. Though it may have seemed like his boy was doing him a solid, it caused the boy to put his life in danger, kept him from moving on to another job, led him to become reliant on his boss/ job, and drove him to desperation. This is similar to the loan process that was outlined in Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story. The American people are desperate and don’t have enough money to survive, so the bank gives them a chance to restore their lives and financial situation by taking out loans. There is a heightened interest rate in this money taken out which requires Americans to struggle even more to pay back a sum larger than they borrowed. This cycle also leaves Americans slaves to the banks they have borrowed from and drives them to desperation. Martin’s article also describes the way in which Capitalism has seeped into our democratic system and has crippled us via loans and fluxuating interest rates

There is another scene in Beijing  Bicyle when Guo  is talking with his father after he gets a job as a bike messenger and they have a simple meal consisting of rice and a scarce amount of meat. Guo’s father shows him a woman that he has been watching in a nearby window. She is young, beautiful and lives in a well furnished apartment. He proceeds to explain that she has everything that she could want, but she always looks so sad and dissatisfied. The audience then sees a series of frames in which the young woman has changed into a few different outfits in the same day. There is definitely  class difference between Guo and his father and the young woman in the window. The angle at which they are looking up at this woman is also significant: She is high above them and they have to look up at her from their slum of a home.  In a society run by capitalism, the rich political powers are on the top of the hierarchy pyramid and the poor common citizens are at the bottom, struggling to survive. It is almost impossible for the lower class to make it to the top of this pyramid, therefore the gap between them grows. In Capitalism: A Love Story, the farmer makes a profound comment, stating that there is no middle class really, only the really rich and the really poor.