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The Good Intentions
Las buenas intenciones
2019 · Film · 85 min
Directed by Ana García Blaya
An aging slacker finds his comfortable status quo and family dynamic disrupted when his ex-wife and her current partner decide to move from Argentina to Paraguay and take his children with them.
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Economic decisions should be viewed in terms of the incentives they create and not their stated intentions. Any economic system is one of rationing resources and this involves making tradeoffs. The apparent intent of one approach for doing this over another doesn't necessarily correlate with its results. E.g. "minimum wage" laws intending to protect workers from exploitation actually create unemployment instead (which is a zero wage, and that's less than the "minimum" wage). The "solution" is presented as being about low wages vs. high wages, so it sounds good and compassionate. But the reality is that it's about low wages vs. zero wages, and low is better than zero.
There's a film by the late economist Walter Williams called Good Intentions that is all about that kind of stuff.
Into the Inferno - Werner Herzog. Documentary on volcanoes where the director allows the filming locations to bring other topics to the forefront.
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World - Werner Herzog. Film about the internet.
The Thin Blue Line - Erol Morris. Film about a murder of a police officer that comes to a different conclusion than the court did about who the murderer is and led to the release of an innocent man and the incarceration of the guilty one.
The Civil War - Ken Burns. There's a reason it's a classic!
Good Intentions - Walter Williams. Film about how economic policies that sound good often have the reverse effects that they intend to have.