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Analysis Of Why Doesn 'T GM Sell Crack' By Michael Moore

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Is capitalism morally justifiable? In a text called ' 'Why Doesn 't GM Sell Crack ' by Michael Moore, the author argues that corporate downzising should be as illegal as crack because downzising is hurting us as much as crack does and it destroys our community in the society. Moore is talking about big companies like GM, AT&T, and GE which fire people when the company is making records profits in the billions of dollars and how the excutives who do this aren 't look down on. According to Moore, the people in the business world like to say that ' 'profit is supreme ' ' and other thing they like to say is ' 'profit is king ' ' because for them, it 's all about making profit. Moore is using his own experience with a man who was sitting

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