Bill Moyers interviews David Simon

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Excerpt from 5:20:

Moyers: You were very clear in your Australian speech that Capitalism is no blueprint for building a society, it's not the road to a just country, you say.

Simon: Well, it's not, you know. It's a tool for building wealth. If wealth is the only measure of your society, and there's no distinction on how that wealth is going to be distributed among the various classes or how that wealth is going to be put to the needs of the society or how the society's going to be protected from inevitable threat, if how the society's infrastructure is fashioned and whether or not it's sustainable, if all those things are not metrics and it's just about generating mass wealth, then, you know, what are we saying? What are we saying about the human condition? What are we saying about our society's condition?

Moyers: How do you tame the greed?

Simon: You have to do it legislatively. And how do you do that when your legislative aspect has been completely purchased by the very capital that is being amassed? That's the problem.