I have to do a pursuasive essay on capitalism...?

Question

What is a good visual aid that supports my point that capitalism is better than socialism?

Answer 1

Break out the portable LCD TV and show the audience bits and pieces of the following:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheight...

The Commanding Heights. It is THE BEST documentary ever..

JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES: The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea, the various products of the whole earth, and reasonably expect their early delivery upon his doorstep. Militarism and imperialism of racial and cultural rivalries were little more than the amusements of his daily newspaper. What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man was that age which came to an end in August 1914.

NARRATOR: Hayek summed it up more succinctly.

FRIEDRICH VON HAYEK: We did not realize how fragile our civilization was.

NARRATOR: The murder of an Austrian archduke by a terrorist triggered a world war. It would be almost 80 years before there was once again a truly global economy.