Capitalist Propaganda: “What Makes Us Tick”
From 1952, a short from The New York Stock Exchange called “What Makes Us Tick“:
When they go through the segment on what it takes to issue stock, I almost busted out laughing, because I kept thinking about all those liberal yahoos in Washington yammering on and on about our “unregulated” markets.
The important thing to take from this video is that it requires a lot of people making a lot of agreements and taking a lot of risks to keep the financial markets working. However, it’s all voluntary, and everyone is free to pull out when they decide their interests are best served by putting their money elsewhere.
The unimportant thing to take from this is that once you marry a woman, she’ll turn into a chubby, bon-bon-gobbling layabout who’ll make you scrub the kitchen floor, so you should seek retribution by squirreling away part of your paycheck to invest in the stock market.
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May 22nd, 2009 at 10:27 am
The dirty little secret is that the chubby, bon-bon-gobbling layabout who’ll make you scrub the kitchen floor represents the government.
I’m just sayin…
May 22nd, 2009 at 11:29 am
Maybe if you get enough of these capitalist propaganda videos togther and play them on Obama’s Telepropmter he would understand how the economy works.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:09 pm
The narrator sounds just like Vincent Price. I want to go back to an America where this sort of video short was commonplace and people cared about knowing… Thanks, Harvey.
May 22nd, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Spoooooooon!
Oh, I thought that said “what makes us The Tick”.
Nevermind.
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Is the guy’s house and car identical to Mr Incredible in the pixar movie or what?