Michael Moore is known as a Academy-Award winning filmmaker and author, who has created numerous films that have led him to be one of the world's most influential people. He has created films based on assault weapons, globalization, American health care, and capitalism. Michael Moore's 2009 documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story explores how American lives have been impacted by corporate greed and the late financial crisis in the 2000s. Throughout his film he tries to touch upon what capitalism is. Moore tries to answer a question throughout the film, "what price would Americans pay for its love for Capitalism?" Moore believes capitalism is “a system of giving and taking – mostly taking” (Moore, 2009, 10:00). Capitalism was seen as a system
