Pootie Tang will teach you more about capitalism than graduate-level economics courses at NYU. I've studied both! Pootie Tang reveals capitalists as monopolized syndicates shilling cigarettes, fast food, malt liquor, black face, rat poison, switchblades, and children’s “pork-chunk cereal” through the evil firm, The Lector Corporation. Decades after the film's release, books like When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm exposed how a single firm like McKinsey turbo-charged the opioid crisis, ICE detention, youth vaping, mass layoffs, authoritarian governments, cigarette sales, and carbon pollution. Pootie’s portrayal of corporations’ ghoulish despotism was always fact, not fiction.

So the next time somebody tries to convince you capitalism is great—just be like Pootie and tell them, "Nay-no, capitalism is cama cama leepa-chai! Wada-ta!"