Were Not Broke is an educational film about government several excuses that america has "no money in the bank". Yet, this documentary focuses on big corporations that are dodging income tax towards the U.S government by placing their money in offshore exotic places which have little to no income tax. The film uses many pathos to connect with the viewer by showing what average day Americans are trying to do against the government so that large corporations do not continue this act.
Freaknomics share a similar topic in one of its chapters about the dirty side stepping businesses dodging tax pay. They both share the same idea that government flaws economics since of it being controlled somewhat by lobbyists inside council. They both use rhetorical triangle by using logos and pathos, but since of the documentary visual works it might be more persuasive as it shows images rather than reading words. Yet they both share the same statistics and the documentary even uses the numbers from the book. "Google, exxon, and facebook has 0% income tax payed since of 2013." Pathos takes a different turn, the documentary uses pathos vigorously while freaknomics is more logos based.
With similar views on this topic i would go on either side of the argument. yet Freaknomics has more statistical measuring which allows it to counter many other persuasion arguments that are thrown at it. This makes freaknomics a better side to take and it also goes in much more depth than the documentary which was made to let people know about the problem.
Sitings:
http://werenotbrokemovie.com/
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