The opponent in this film is Mr. Friedman. They deliberately sought out a group of experts from consulting companies and think tanks advocating economic freedom, and asked them to express their political opinions. They also used huge sums of funding from the rich to question the credibility of the theories they preached. Aiming at the view that "the market can make the damaged region prosper quickly". The author questions this view with two examples of the reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The first is the exhibition with the signboard of "Reconstruction Equipment and Technology Exhibition", which sells household safety products (maybe riots occurred after the disaster); land.
In terms of corporate social responsibility, the two gentlemen pretended to be spokespersons of Dow Chemical and announced huge compensation to the victims of the Bhopal incident; participated in a financial seminar and said that they could assess the risk and cost of personal injury and death caused by the fatal harm of the investment project. ; Participate in a meeting of petroleum companies to light up human fat candles to protest that petroleum companies do not invest funds for the greenhouse effect and would rather spend huge sums of money to shoot corporate image advertisements.
Although these ingenious "protest" behaviors, the benevolent sees benevolence, and the wise sees wisdom, it is easy to be denounced as "ridiculous and boring" and "deceptive." But they can face the unscrupulous behavior of these companies and dare to challenge them. Express your views on society. And they are good at making speeches, models, and animations. With their talents, they can have a good income. But I would rather do these "hippie" jobs, which is even more admirable.
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