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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5269970" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>What you don't get is if we have socialism as an economic model the people who risked a lot of capital to produce the movie wouldn't have because they would've had to pay much higher taxes on profits.  They have no way of knowing going in if the movie would be profitable enough or if they would lose money on it.  That's the risk they take.  But with socialism's much higher taxes it's a risk not worth taking.  That's why everything falls apart under a purely socialist model.  The story itself may have all the elements you say but that doesn't get the movie made.  The potential for high profits does.  Your favorite movie got made and distributed because of capitalism.</p></blockquote><p></p>