It's All in the Widgets
Douglas Rushkoff - the author of Life Inc. - is a guest blogger.
GM made this short stop-motion animation in 1939 (long before Lego's little people who look like this were ever around), to promote the concept of Free Enterprise. "Round and Round" is a 'what-me-worry?' approach to economics, suitable for anyone who wants to know how it all works without ever finding out why it doesn't all work like that.
This is best visualization of what I imagined to be going through George W's mind when he talked about taxes and business.
See an explanation of this film at archive.org
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