Michael Moore’s new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, is an infuriating, somewhat terrifying and hilarious look at life and politics in the USA.
It includes the creepy revelation that your employer may well hold a “Dead Peasants†life insurance policy on you, making you worth more to your boss dead than alive.
It also details the uncomfortable possibility that your airline pilot is earning less than $20,000 a year, holding down a second job or collecting food stamps— making him or her more bleary-eyed or bitter than you’d want to think about thousands of feet in the air. continue reading