Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream⎜WHY POVERTY?⎜(Documentary)

How much inequality is too much?
740 Park Ave, New York City, is home to some of the wealthiest Americans. Across the Harlem River, 10 minutes to the north, is the other Park Avenue in South Bronx, where more than half the population live on food stamps and children are 20 times more likely to be killed. In the last 30 years, inequality has rocketed in the US -- the American Dream only applies to those with enough money to lobby politicians for friendly bills on Capitol Hill.
Filmmaker: Alex Gibney
Producer: Blair Foster
Produced by Jigsaw Productions & THE WHY Foundation
Released: 2012
This film was originally released as part of THE WHY series WHY POVERTY?. Learn more about the project: www.thewhy.dk/projects/why-po...
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  • @Ice-FoxXx
    @Ice-FoxXx4 жыл бұрын

    This is seven years old, but the situation is even worse today. Can you imagine what it's going to look like in another seven years........

  • @paulyakaitis3352

    @paulyakaitis3352

    3 жыл бұрын

    IceXFoXx yeah, there’s more millionaires today!

  • @juanshaftpatel7488

    @juanshaftpatel7488

    3 жыл бұрын

    because black lives matter

  • @hunterpaulson8225

    @hunterpaulson8225

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well no it’s not. President Trump has accepted $0 from wall street lobbyists. Bloomberg spent MILLIONS on the primary, and lost. You can’t buy Washington. This video is mostly false, and it’s entire point is to tear down the capitalistic system

  • @iskandarqiao6919

    @iskandarqiao6919

    3 жыл бұрын

    Might be a revolution, led by populists or socialists.

  • @annemeridien3384

    @annemeridien3384

    3 жыл бұрын

    I agree. It is going to be bad in the coming years. Makes me sad. I worked as an estate/property manager for five well known American billionaires for 20 years. I understand the inequity. Fancy job and high pay, I eventually quit. I feel worried about our futures. Will this be the next "Romanoff's."

  • @bennygpc1200
    @bennygpc12005 жыл бұрын

    "𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢, 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙖𝙨𝙡𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙩." - 𝙂𝙚𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙣

  • @nadirrabah6756

    @nadirrabah6756

    4 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂 I forgot that he did that stand up bit lol

  • @jpeter5715

    @jpeter5715

    3 жыл бұрын

    Great Man ! RIP

  • @Alec04136
    @Alec041362 жыл бұрын

    Who’s here for the sociology homework?

  • @samdasilva1914
    @samdasilva19143 жыл бұрын

    I really hate the expression "if you work hard" there are millions of people who work hard, millions who hold down several jobs, millions who work long hours, millions who work in hard physical labour jobs, millions who work in low paid positions. They also work hard, it's not about that, it's a combination of circumstances , choices and luck. Not everyone is born into wealth, not everyone has access to top level education.

  • @td2555

    @td2555

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well said!

  • @josephforest7605

    @josephforest7605

    2 жыл бұрын

    Good one . I have been in a few jams in my life and my family was there to take care of me . I wonder , if I would be living on the streets if it wasn't for my family . In other words as you have mentioned , circumstances . I study street people and they have all the same thing in common , a problem that I do not have addiction and mental illness. Years ago near my work , a fellow would park his car , close to my work and sleep in the car . I imagine the reason why he did not go to a shelter , is that he did not have an addiction or mental illness , he was just broke .

  • @jasonpark1556

    @jasonpark1556

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's not about that either, it's about living below your means and investing. There are stories about people that made less than $15 their whole life but have a 6 figure portfolio. Also look at millionaire statistics

  • @samdasilva1914

    @samdasilva1914

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jasonpark1556 "living below your means"??? Is that even a phrase? Yes, let's look a millionaire status. I will start with sports stars, film stars, reality TV people, wait... let's look at Amazon... people who are hiding away their money in various "schemes" rather than paying their taxes.

  • @jasonpark1556

    @jasonpark1556

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@samdasilva1914 sure let's look at Amazon, Jeff Bezos risked it all by quitting his job and starting it on a garage where he wasn't profitable for years(and still isn't very profitable) he started it before the dot com bubble which drove even his sales down from what little he had. However after providing services that MOST people see as convinient he took his company public and now holds the title as the richest man. People hate him cuz consumers are also assholes who overwork people but then feel bad and blame it on the owner

  • @alaskansummertime
    @alaskansummertime2 жыл бұрын

    I'm 50 now and have been watching this slide my entire life. When I was a kid you could have a job bagging groceries and pay a mortgage on a house. I found no matter how hard I worked, no matter how much overtime, no matter how much I saved I felt like I was living in a real life playing out of The Jungle. This country does not have much time left. It honestly can not be fixed at this point. No matter what reforms you try and make you are bestowing them on people who have been deprived of a proper upbringing. Poor education, poor diet and the most commonly overlooked factor of heavy chemical contamination of our environment. Everything wrong with people started to explode in the late eighties. Obesity, autism, ADHD, everything. The big corporations and wealthy don't give a fuck. Not only do they rig the game but they dump toxins in our environment to slowly poison us.

  • @carolbenedict5654

    @carolbenedict5654

    2 жыл бұрын

    Luxury tax. For all purchases that are strictly luxury items like items of clothing over 25K, jewelry over 25k, yachts, etc.

  • @SarahSobieski

    @SarahSobieski

    2 жыл бұрын

    They do poison, but only because it's cheaper and more convenient. Why would they intentionally kill off the working wage population that actually pay taxes...

  • @OanhSchlesinger

    @OanhSchlesinger

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@SarahSobieski I paid more in taxes 20 years ago than I do today.

  • @CristMakhanya

    @CristMakhanya

    2 жыл бұрын

    Damn if anyone every thought they could live a good life bagging groceries the rest of their working lives then they have no one to blame but themselves. Bagging requires no skill. Zero!!!

  • @fletcherdalton910

    @fletcherdalton910

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@CristMakhanya Like being a hedge fund baby requires any skills. Jesus watch the documentary and then actually contribute to the conservation. Bagging groceries and being a hard worker is much better than being given millions by daddy and mommy. We need a living wage for the middle class or this country will fall apart.

  • @beekaydee7334
    @beekaydee73342 жыл бұрын

    Psalm 49: 16 - 17:- "Do not be afraid when another person becomes rich, and the glory of his house is increased. For when he dies he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him." Further reading: 1 Timothy 6: 6 - 10

  • @iam1smiley1

    @iam1smiley1

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yup, these people are the rich in our lifetime, they will die. This is simply propaganda! 🤣

  • @DSAK55

    @DSAK55

    Жыл бұрын

    his glory shall not descend after him, but his pollical influence will

  • @georgeramos3437
    @georgeramos34372 жыл бұрын

    I was born & raised in NYC. I am from the Bronx. This super sad reality is 💯% accurate. I visited a home on Park Avenue in the South Bronx. I thought, ‘This is one of the most horrible homes that I have ever visited in New York City.”

  • @jacksalami9945

    @jacksalami9945

    2 жыл бұрын

    Please explain, what made the home horrible ? genuine question

  • @josephforest7605

    @josephforest7605

    6 ай бұрын

    Why?

  • @andrewmcclare7242
    @andrewmcclare72422 жыл бұрын

    I'd love to see the economists and other professionals in this do come back and analyze how much worse the situation has gotten now. Considering the incredible wealth gap increase due to the pandemic I can only imagine what they think about our current outlook.

  • @notabene7381

    @notabene7381

    2 жыл бұрын

    Richard Wolff / Democracy at Work.

  • @Isochest

    @Isochest

    2 жыл бұрын

    Economic collapse and civil war?

  • @andrewmcclare7242

    @andrewmcclare7242

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Isochest I just happen to also see someone post that the average span of an empire is 250 years, and the US is just at 245 😂 so maybe we'll see something change soon :O

  • @markspencer171

    @markspencer171

    2 жыл бұрын

    leftist idiot comment

  • @andrewmcclare7242

    @andrewmcclare7242

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@markspencer171 awesome, thanks for contributing to the convo

  • @crystalparker100
    @crystalparker1004 жыл бұрын

    Republicans and Democrats are two royal families fighting for the throne, while the peasants pick a team to cheer for.

  • @rrpearsall

    @rrpearsall

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nah.. they're more like competing whore monopolies

  • @MrLegit-xi5nw

    @MrLegit-xi5nw

    4 жыл бұрын

    Never heard the truth put in that way,but the facts remain right in front our faces. 2020

  • @rrpearsall

    @rrpearsall

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@MrLegit-xi5nw If you want a true bitch slap Truth Experience.. Just Look at Epstein.. The Oligarchs don't even try to conceal the truth anymore..

  • @rrpearsall

    @rrpearsall

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Jane Doe Please take some time to meditate so you can articulate why you're so angry with my comment.. You're obviously triggered but what have you accomplished besides showing KZread you like like an unstable inarticulate fool!?

  • @rrpearsall

    @rrpearsall

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Jane Doe Was it 24 or 29 times BILL CLINTON Flew on Lolita Express Jeffrey Epstein's private jet??

  • @billiebillie678
    @billiebillie6787 жыл бұрын

    This movie makes me sad. So much greed! Like how much money does a single person need?! Now I see why the rich are hated so much in this country.

  • @bambino100011
    @bambino1000112 жыл бұрын

    This is why I have always said that corporate lobbying should be outlawed.

  • @TheFoolintherainn

    @TheFoolintherainn

    2 жыл бұрын

    Who's going to blink first? What politician is actually going to make it to a political office by calling out campaign finance reform? It's like Social security - it's the third rail in politics.

  • @jj5962

    @jj5962

    2 жыл бұрын

    And, they crush unions, which Lobby for the poor! Disgusting criminals.

  • @slobodanpaunovic3834

    @slobodanpaunovic3834

    2 жыл бұрын

    Corporate lobbying is undercover expretion for corrupt thieves in our parliaments.

  • @slobodanpaunovic3834

    @slobodanpaunovic3834

    2 жыл бұрын

    100%

  • @rudimoesbauer184

    @rudimoesbauer184

    2 жыл бұрын

    So true.

  • @nicknack2222
    @nicknack22223 жыл бұрын

    GameStop played monopoly with one dice and got the “move pass go” card 10 times in a row and the guys with two dice flipped the table over to end the game.

  • @evalangley3985

    @evalangley3985

    2 жыл бұрын

    You got it wrong, GME was the revenge of the small retail investors against Wallstreet... and it will happen again... we finally caught them with both hands in the cookie jar.

  • @panismith1544

    @panismith1544

    2 жыл бұрын

    LUCK!!$$$ & GOOD FORTUNES

  • @Talleyhoooo

    @Talleyhoooo

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@evalangley3985 they won at the end of the day though, they spooked the hodl’s into submission. GME won’t happen again.

  • @Freethought73
    @Freethought7310 жыл бұрын

    46:00 "Just because you're rich doesn't make you smart, doesn't make you cultured, doesn't make you refined.....some rich people are DICKS!" Poetry in motion. :-)

  • @dondressel4802

    @dondressel4802

    4 жыл бұрын

    FreeThinker73 yes I have friends that are very wealthy and when you go out to eat they are the last to pull out their wallet Bottom line is their selfish pricks

  • @iluvpittys242

    @iluvpittys242

    4 жыл бұрын

    I would say most are unless their out for something! Most poor people are willing to give the shirt off their back to help someone if they need it more than you !

  • @Anexoticadventure

    @Anexoticadventure

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dondressel4802 Or just smart, and that's why they're rich.

  • @kiki29073

    @kiki29073

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@iluvpittys242 New money are normally worse than old money.

  • @leroyoterang5407

    @leroyoterang5407

    2 жыл бұрын

    ! Our country is broken! Why don't you critisize both parties? Theyre both corrupt as hell! Owned by special interests. Media divides us, right vs left, but they lie too. Make a plan. Vote, even if it's a protest vote (write-in). WRITE or call your Senator and Representative and DEMAND (ESPECIALLY) anti-corruption laws , improvement of inequality, better wages, ban lobbying, better healthcare or you'll vote them out. Both parties are corrupt as hell but we need to fight to take back our country.

  • @karlaruthford5149
    @karlaruthford51494 жыл бұрын

    This video was released on KZread in 2013. Wealth inequality has gotten much worse. (1-5-19)

  • @seanlee30001

    @seanlee30001

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Chuck Dellano you get rewarded more as you work harder in capitalistic society. Dumbo. Poor is poor for reason.

  • @kakumee

    @kakumee

    4 жыл бұрын

    Na it 3-11-2020... Wait till 11-1-2020...the poor people won't have anything we'll be slaves to rich people, at first they will say the people "losing" there rights "deserve" it...yah because poor people, people of color, people who are disabled, people who are elderly ( because vetrens of wars, the ederly who paid into the system to get some comfort back in there sunset years and enjoy there life that they spent building country and people who are disabled should not have any help or opportunity to go forward, people who work full time jobs even good full time jobs can't make it because they get paid too little from there job when the CEO and there buddy's need more money because they don't have enough to even keep wages, even if they have good jobs and because hay taking food from starving kids, meds from cancer patients, and forcing the sionr citazens to get a job because you can work in 80s like you did in your 20s is ok and today works

  • @jacklarue7049

    @jacklarue7049

    4 жыл бұрын

    This comment was written on 1/5/19. Wealth inequality has gotten much worse. (3/12/20)

  • @westsidegranny6100

    @westsidegranny6100

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@seanlee30001 hey, Sean, you bought the whole nine yards, didnt you? Wait.

  • @westsidegranny6100

    @westsidegranny6100

    4 жыл бұрын

    @MrGorgeouslyme mr. G. So, one country collapsed. Research. Many countries are surviving, no thriving while socialist. Are you stingy or careless or just a follower of the Republican philosophy do as I say, not as I do. Cheap and extremly selfish. If I can do it they can also. UNTRUE,FOOL.

  • @thatsthejobbb8587
    @thatsthejobbb85872 жыл бұрын

    I watched a doc on when Ghana struck oil. A government exec said a line in questioning with the interviewer "In America, they call it lobbying. Here we call it corrupting you to change the law". At least they're upfront about their corruption & extortion....

  • @insertnamehereee
    @insertnamehereee Жыл бұрын

    This is an incredibly sad documentary. I researched this issue when I stumbled across a giant, sprawling chateau in the middle of Columbus Circle (I go to school in the city) and felt a rush of alienation and injustice just by looking at the place with its limo, butler (and I would later find online: private chef, swimming pool, and limestone lobby). Thank you for the amazing editing skills, and for putting so many thinkers and historical moments in conversation with each other. However, I do feel sad. It's hard to think things will ever change.

  • @tatendazimbwa5231
    @tatendazimbwa52318 жыл бұрын

    The best part "some rich people are just dicks" lol

  • @Polarbear-zy6vf

    @Polarbear-zy6vf

    6 жыл бұрын

    Tatenda Zimbwa Yes. The doorman said it best, these are some of the most detestable people. They think they are Gods in their head.

  • @xpsxps1339

    @xpsxps1339

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nope! The "best part" would be: "Some billionaires even aren't dicks, but quite nice people." (And some really are, but it would be an ultra-short list of them.)

  • @vivianoosthuizen8990
    @vivianoosthuizen89905 жыл бұрын

    Where’s the courage of the 150 million poor to change this

  • @lincolnkarim1

    @lincolnkarim1

    4 жыл бұрын

    I feel the first thing for them to do is learn their History. Cut out garbage TV and listen to stories from their old folk. There is a huge influx of 1st generation Africans in Harlem and the Bronx, but the Americans (of African descent), look down on them. The former quickly abandon their traditional ways and take up the shallow culture of those lost and oppressed Americans. My Nigerian colleague was ashamed to wear his traditional clothing and often tried to hide his home made Nigerian food at work--until I gave him a good swift kick in the ass and told him to be proud of his culture. "You should be ashamed to wear your pants hanging down your butt and eating American junk food!"

  • @westsidegranny6100

    @westsidegranny6100

    4 жыл бұрын

    We are broken and stupid.

  • @lorainestjames4181

    @lorainestjames4181

    4 жыл бұрын

    they are worn out from trying to survive no energy left to trudge on. How could they change things, however, being homeless is great visuals to show a change needs to happen.

  • @waterotter3625

    @waterotter3625

    4 жыл бұрын

    They're busy getting maced in the face by the hired thugs of the rich for protesting conditions.

  • @panismith1544

    @panismith1544

    4 жыл бұрын

    Very true...disgusting

  • @whatabouttheearth
    @whatabouttheearth2 жыл бұрын

    "🎶 Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows Everybody knows that the boat is leaking Everybody knows that the captain lied Everybody got this broken feeling Like their father or their dog just died Everybody talking to their pockets Everybody wants a box of chocolates And a long-stem rose Everybody knows 🎶" Leonard Cohen

  • @rokuwhitefox7764
    @rokuwhitefox77643 жыл бұрын

    "The Wormwoods lived in a very nice house, in a very nice town, but they were not very nice people." -Matilda

  • @glitteringsword7516
    @glitteringsword75166 жыл бұрын

    Proverbs 29:2 = When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

  • @bradleyswissman

    @bradleyswissman

    6 жыл бұрын

    Proverbs 16:8 - Better to have little, with godliness, than to be rich and dishonest. Proverbs 18:11 - The rich think of their wealth as a strong defense; they imagine it to be a high wall of safety. Proverbs 1:19 - Such is the fate of all who are greedy for money; it robs them of life. And my personal favorite: Proverbs 28:6 - Better to be poor and honest than to be dishonest and rich.

  • @tuduloo7799

    @tuduloo7799

    6 жыл бұрын

    Quoting the bible...this is why your country is fucked...you are all delusonal..drop the fairytales and get your country back.

  • @Emily-cj9nc

    @Emily-cj9nc

    5 жыл бұрын

    It's not delusional; it's true

  • @SquidCena

    @SquidCena

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@tuduloo7799 its why the world is going to end... you cant keep your mouth shut and leave people around right? You're delusional for thinking their is no God.

  • @roder51

    @roder51

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@SquidCena I don't think anyone who spelled their for there is not too bright to begin with. And yes Americans know more about fairy tales than they do about their political and historical history.

  • @Kamofy
    @Kamofy6 жыл бұрын

    Sadly I work for Koch Industries. David Koch constantly pushes his MBM principles at every company they own right down to the janitor. They recently got rid of year end bonuses in favor of the idea that if you go above and beyond your duties AND SAVE YOUR DEPARTMENT MONEY only then are you considered for any sort of reward. Kochs are also very sensitive to any criticism. We regularly get emails from high up where they dispute any article or TV news story where the Kochs are critiqued and call it lies or slur campaign.

  • @chuckkottke

    @chuckkottke

    4 жыл бұрын

    Interesting and informative about life inside the machine! Thanks Kamofy, that tells me their scrooge philosophy runs throughout their money making scheme. I worked briefly for Wellington mfg and we worked our butts off with no bonuses, low pay, 10 hour shifts 6 and sometimes 7 days a week. All the owners did was complain about us! Then they moved the plant to Mexico, then on to China. Greed knows no limit!

  • @chuckkottke

    @chuckkottke

    4 жыл бұрын

    Good Lord, the Kochs really are control freaks!

  • @jasminejones9937

    @jasminejones9937

    2 жыл бұрын

    Have you and your co workers ever thought to go on STRIKE ? Oh wait I'm thinking about the good ol days when workers actually had some power over powerful co operations !

  • @dawnatkinson7704

    @dawnatkinson7704

    2 жыл бұрын

    Geez..i recognise that name as one of our clients. Food for thought..

  • @Johnconno

    @Johnconno

    2 жыл бұрын

    Why you work for Cock?

  • @kateskeys
    @kateskeys4 жыл бұрын

    I live near rich people on the upper east side. (My apartment is dump) I have yet to meet ONE rich person - in nyc or anywhere that smiled, covered, kind, friendly or approachable. My relatives are rich and they are cheap and shallow. Money is toxic.

  • @simoncarlile4961
    @simoncarlile49613 жыл бұрын

    I've been poor every minute of my life,and just now had an epiphany.The deck is stacked against me.WTF.

  • @lisaw6219
    @lisaw62195 жыл бұрын

    To say this video was eye opening is an understatement!

  • @minymoe9475

    @minymoe9475

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@WhoisJohnGalt402 Are you talking about the corporate welfare in the form of tax breaks that corporations get? The wealthy are the biggest welfare recipients that there is. Yet, everybody gets all worked up about poor folk receiving chump change through social programs.

  • @ItsaUFOduh
    @ItsaUFOduh9 жыл бұрын

    Lately I've been seeing people get jobs at movie theatres or convenience stores and they act like they won the lottery. How pathetic is that?! Is that how bleak the job outlook is in this country? Meanwhile i see economists going on tv saying "don't worry, job outsourcing and trade deficits don't mean anything".

  • @BunneRabb

    @BunneRabb

    5 жыл бұрын

    *+Dick Aspey* Not EVERYBODY said that. Reference - 2016 election.

  • @randyscott3386

    @randyscott3386

    5 жыл бұрын

    In case you don't know , it's dam near impossible to get the "GOOD JOB " when you don't have "ANY JOB" . The employers want to see that you can and will work , you're employable , you can show up on time , you're reliable, you can get along with others. and on and on . Again , to get the good job start with the bad job . That bad job will get you the good job . We're living in a society that doesn't reward failure more and more everyday .

  • @TheNoirAlien

    @TheNoirAlien

    4 жыл бұрын

    Working enables independence, go figure.

  • @westsidegranny6100

    @westsidegranny6100

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dick...it is much worse than anyone chooses to admit. There are no jobs. Period. Thank that son of a bitch Bill Clinton for selling this country out and that mega monster Ronsld Fucking Regan for ending the unions. He did as number of mean things. Buy you are young and strong. Hopefully you are trained for something. If not volunteer, it opens doors that otherwise would be closed. Good luck.

  • @RPAChampion
    @RPAChampion2 жыл бұрын

    Bro, I swear I thought to myself once I was finished watching this I’d see your subscribe count and it was going to be in the millions.. haha Great content and super informative I’ll be coming back for sure.

  • @uniqtraveller2162
    @uniqtraveller2162 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for the best documentary! Very educative

  • @MasterTSayge
    @MasterTSayge4 жыл бұрын

    45:00 One rich mentor told me a real secret. He told me "the real reason why the rich treats doormens and concierges like crap is because they let them." That woke me up.

  • @cassieo4337

    @cassieo4337

    4 жыл бұрын

    SKYRULE49 So true. Americans let this happen. They bought into the republican scam and started voting against their best interests.

  • @Hannah-zw9ow

    @Hannah-zw9ow

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@cassieo4337 a Republican has only won the popular vote once in the last 30 years, and that was 17 years ago. The issue is not that people have bought Republicans’ BS, it’s that our system has been rigged since the 1800s. When the southern states tried to secede from the nation in the 1860s over slavery, we told them if they would stay in the union they could count every single person in the state when determining how many electoral votes they would get. So they got electoral votes that represented thousands of black slaves who couldn’t even vote. They rigged the system so those states would always have disproportionate power and we’re still seeing the effects of it. For a Democrat to win an election they don’t just need a basic majority (51%), they actually need 53% because the system is skewed against them. Yes their dumb asses are loud, but they aren’t the majority and haven’t been in a long time.

  • @cassieo4337

    @cassieo4337

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Hannah-zw9ow that doesn't change the fact that Americans have allowed this to continue to happen. They just haven't cared enough to hold these guys accountable for what would certainly disqualify them from ever holding office in any other western democracy. To see the likes of McConnell, Graham, Jordan, Nunes, Gohmert, Cruz etc elected time after time, it's pretty clear yours is no representative democracy. Isn't it about time it was though?

  • @Isochest

    @Isochest

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@cassieo4337 Most people have a Status compass not a Moral compass. An uncomfortable truth and most people are uncomfortable with the truth

  • @namedrop721

    @namedrop721

    2 жыл бұрын

    Why do you think they let them? Hell working a fast food window at least once a shift there’s some middle class Karen trying to lose a girl her job over some $2 fries

  • @DeJaVu337
    @DeJaVu3374 жыл бұрын

    I was raised in the Alfred E.Smith Housing Project and delivered newspapers to the Park/Madison Avenue Art Deco buildings for many years as a youth. I also shined shoes to the Wall Street executives to supplement my income and did quite well. I leveraged my money and bought a Studio Co-Op in Queens, sold it 4 years later and secured a 1 bedroom condo, and 3 years later got a 2 bedroom. Leveraged that Condo and secure a gutted crack house in Harlem and sold it 14 years later for 3 Million.

  • @allegrabraun7545

    @allegrabraun7545

    4 жыл бұрын

    😂😂😂 the good old United States of American Way!

  • @annetoronto5474

    @annetoronto5474

    4 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic, love your story! It's about making good choices, they are not always easy choices.

  • @omajestyqueenanne7557

    @omajestyqueenanne7557

    4 жыл бұрын

    Give the Most High GOD, Almighty the credit, for allowing you through the Matrix maze; but do NOT snub those. who have not been so favored, as there is a time for everything and everything has its time. Ecclesiastes 3 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; ...

  • @DeJaVu337

    @DeJaVu337

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@annetoronto5474 When u wish upon a Star, makes no difference who u r ... Dreams do come true ! Dream BIG ... it's the POWER of mind over MATTER !

  • @DeJaVu337

    @DeJaVu337

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Ones Ones U just need to reprogram your inner computer and rid yourself of all those nasty viruses and delete the bullshit. It's MIND over MATTER, if u don't mind it doesn't matter. Know thyself & the truth WILL set U FREE ! I AM I, AM I ?

  • @hermanrogers1325
    @hermanrogers13252 жыл бұрын

    When you lose money in the stock markets the money doesn’t disappear it goes into someone else pocket. The stock markets are like a pic pocket and nothing can be done about it and they know it

  • @minymoe9475

    @minymoe9475

    2 жыл бұрын

    True. Now they also have crypto to pump and dump.

  • @jpmtlhead39
    @jpmtlhead392 жыл бұрын

    When the Greed of someone, means "crushing" others lifes, can be said, thats "criminal".

  • @magicjohnson4464
    @magicjohnson44646 жыл бұрын

    The number one question in the world. How much money does a billionaire need to feel comfortable

  • @TheCritic9196

    @TheCritic9196

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's like asking how much drugs an addict needs, it's a psychological thing it has nothing to do with comfort

  • @AztecDread

    @AztecDread

    7 ай бұрын

    It's not about money its about the game capitalism

  • @teewilliams4272
    @teewilliams42725 жыл бұрын

    So basically the rich were behind the depression. I knew it. 🙅🙅🙅🙎

  • @christopherh5672

    @christopherh5672

    4 жыл бұрын

    Tee Williams duhhhhhhhhh

  • @elaineproffitt4640

    @elaineproffitt4640

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes. Just like they were behind the 2008 crash and the recent COVID lockdown crash which is looking to be worse than the Great Depression.

  • @elaineproffitt4640

    @elaineproffitt4640

    3 жыл бұрын

    People were murdered to prevent bankers being sued in 2008

  • @hermanrogers1325

    @hermanrogers1325

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yep that’s right every ten years or so they crash the stock markets and take all the money and leave the people to scrape by

  • @riverdeep399

    @riverdeep399

    2 жыл бұрын

    and the 2008 credit crunch. and the greed of ordinary Boomers chucking stick on credit, they played right into the hands of greedy 1percenters.

  • @christopherhan3347
    @christopherhan33472 жыл бұрын

    Ayn Rand's eyes! She was clearly stark staring bonkers.

  • @SW-wf3gy
    @SW-wf3gy3 жыл бұрын

    That pastor and his wife at 7:00 are people that demand true respect!

  • @Zincink
    @Zincink4 жыл бұрын

    Being rich is not opening your wallet for things you don't need. Being rich is knowing yourself & learning new things. Being rich is having morals, manners, health and cleanliness. Being rich is having strong family values & long time friends. I might not have a dollar to my name or a bank account, but I know the value of life's most valuable things.

  • @AztecDread

    @AztecDread

    7 ай бұрын

    Well if you live by those things you most likely won't be broke...most employers wish people were actually like this and pay for it. Hard work and skillsets are paid well

  • @susanray4059
    @susanray40595 жыл бұрын

    I keep wondering when the ppl of this once great Nation will awake from their deep slumber and realize the wealth inequity stole their government. Now only the illusion is left. sigh

  • @corysturgis6660

    @corysturgis6660

    2 жыл бұрын

    Bernie is the only only willing to point it out and has made a lifetime career of it.

  • @mariemacisaac7529
    @mariemacisaac752910 ай бұрын

    I worked for a very rich company. My job stated that I must own a car. I lived in a cheep apartment with neighbours on welfare. I bought a used small car, I had $1.00 per day for food. Publish the wage of their lowest wage employee.

  • @yvonnejensen1969
    @yvonnejensen19692 жыл бұрын

    The first few seconds were a real estate commercial. The second few seconds were an emotive appeal to make you feel bad about the real estate commercial. The guilt trip is based on the same tired old arguments that don't point out the specifics what is actually causing poverty. Park Avenue, rich or poor isn't America's problem. Regulation and oppression through regulation is.

  • @roseannamazzei7849

    @roseannamazzei7849

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Well said.

  • @embracedmadness

    @embracedmadness

    2 жыл бұрын

    How do you explain the higher living standards of Europe? They have regulations.

  • @DisposableSupervillainHenchman

    @DisposableSupervillainHenchman

    2 жыл бұрын

    “Regulations are bad” is a garbage libertarian argument from people who have zero understanding of externalities. It’s simple on paper, but disastrous in practice. Lack of proper regulation leads to larger and larger problems that affect us all. But go on being a good lapdog for the Koch family.

  • @eastbackbay

    @eastbackbay

    2 жыл бұрын

    You are spewing the same shit that your libertarian masters are pouring down your throat… and I bet you are a minimum wage earner with the only goal of ending your day with a six pack. Happy to keep rolling in your own miserable uneducated shit.

  • @gailtacon9581
    @gailtacon95814 жыл бұрын

    Sharing is caring.Its much more often that poor people are more generous than rich people.

  • @westsidegranny6100

    @westsidegranny6100

    4 жыл бұрын

    We always are the first to toss a twenty when the rich like to say" they just want it for drugs. Or why dont they work" great parents, they had, hu?

  • @thereisonlyonewright3040

    @thereisonlyonewright3040

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@westsidegranny6100 Poor people know the feeling therefore empathize

  • @SoftLivingCreative

    @SoftLivingCreative

    4 жыл бұрын

    Gail Tacon correct

  • @jennygibbons1258

    @jennygibbons1258

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh! but the rich can indeed be incredibly generous - donating millions to 'charitable foundations' - so long as it's in front of the cameras, fully tax deductible and provides ample money laundering opportunities.

  • @HypnoticHollywood

    @HypnoticHollywood

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jennygibbons1258 John Rockefella donated $500 million during a time before news cameras and media. The average poor person strives to earn just enough to be comfortable and knock those who strive for more.

  • @chosen_one1602
    @chosen_one16024 жыл бұрын

    They got money for wars but cant feed the poor- Tupac

  • @michaelstevens7140

    @michaelstevens7140

    4 жыл бұрын

    FACTS straight ☝

  • @jackj5368

    @jackj5368

    3 жыл бұрын

    Boring comment. Money makes the world go 'round. Learn something, then figure out how to use it to make some money, 'not-the-chosen-one (that's for certain)".

  • @TheBreezus
    @TheBreezus2 жыл бұрын

    This is still relevant some 8 years down the road.

  • @Teporame

    @Teporame

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not only that, it is worst, much more worst, if that superlative is possible.

  • @spideywhiplash
    @spideywhiplash4 жыл бұрын

    Excellent Alex Gibney Documentary. He does great work. Thank you!

  • @sweetdash7298
    @sweetdash72985 жыл бұрын

    at the end, we all have the same apartment "6 FOOT GRAVE" , funny isn't it? nothing fancy but the headstone

  • @westsidegranny6100

    @westsidegranny6100

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sweetiedash. You have a way with prospective. Good for you!

  • @noname-by3qz

    @noname-by3qz

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sweet dash.... Or we turn into 3 pds of ash.

  • @patrickmartin2689

    @patrickmartin2689

    4 жыл бұрын

    Your statement is true but the future for thier generation will put us in that 6ft hole faster...😑😑😑✌✌✌

  • @dadnonlyd3

    @dadnonlyd3

    4 жыл бұрын

    unless you have enough money to cryogenically freeze yourself only for future generations to restore you... this money stuff is great

  • @noname-by3qz

    @noname-by3qz

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@dadnonlyd3 I think you said the opposite of what you meant.

  • @RichardVrong876
    @RichardVrong87610 жыл бұрын

    "In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."- Confucius “Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.”- Nelson Mandela “Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life?”-Martin Luther King. “Talent is universal, opportunity is not”- Rye Barcott

  • @TheWinterShadow

    @TheWinterShadow

    5 жыл бұрын

    Well said.

  • @EnergyFlowAbundance

    @EnergyFlowAbundance

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @MikuHatsune12

    @MikuHatsune12

    5 жыл бұрын

    "I too can quote someone online." - Myself

  • @MasterTSayge

    @MasterTSayge

    5 жыл бұрын

    Why the Rich really have all the power. Here are 3 Scenarios- RICH: Govt forces Rich to increase wages for workers. Rich responded with "Scew that!! I'm moving my company to different country or go Galt" Then the Govt replies with "Never mind. Please Stay and pay your workers any income you desire" The rich man lives happily ever after. WORKERS: The Rich pays workers low wages. Workers responded by protesting and marching demanding "We want higher wages!" The Govt replied "Shut the hell up" and the Rich said "Get back to work or you'll be replaced by Scabs" and weeks or months later the workers went back to working for low wages. THE FREEMEN : The Rich pays Freemen low wages. The Freemen responded by walking out of society in droves living off grid. The Govt responded "Where you all going?, get back here!" The Freemen replied "Hell No!" The Rich Said "You all will be fired and replaced by Scabs!" The Freemen said "F**k you too, we are going Galt!!" Months and years went by and society and capitalism started to deteriorate. Governments were out of funding and collapse and The Rich companies were no longer making profits. Even though the scabs had replaced the Freemen, The Freemen were living a free and prosperous life even without the luxuries they were a custom to. They were happy! So The Rich and The Govt went to The Freemen and went on their knees and begged the Freemen to return back to society so they can rejuvenate Capitalism. At that moment The Govt And The Rich realized the workers are the engines of society. Not the Govt or the Rich. Moral of the story is the system is only as good as the common person. Capitalism is where The Govt is like the mind, The Rich is like the heart, and the workers are like the bloodstreams that keeps things going. Without the bloodstreams what good is the heart? The downside to acquiring power is that the power of The Workers requires a GROUP effort; has for, the Rich only requires the effort of only one person. And it's much easier to cooperate with self than others. So people Unite! Remember, POWER Respects POWER! not weakness. Like & Share if you agree.

  • @thecamelstory6693

    @thecamelstory6693

    5 жыл бұрын

    not at this birth rate ! there is no war, we need chaos to create opportunity !

  • @estee3305
    @estee33052 жыл бұрын

    This whole documentary gives me the shivers ~ it reminds me of a Sc!entology Documentary.

  • @nitroflesh

    @nitroflesh

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sc!entology is nothing compared to this

  • @MissCane9

    @MissCane9

    2 жыл бұрын

    Gibney also did a Scientology documentary called "CLEAR."

  • @netsch20
    @netsch203 жыл бұрын

    I remember watching this and being very surprised when at 0:34 I saw the doorman for the building my grandparents used to live. I was like, I know that guy!

  • @sideshowdrummer
    @sideshowdrummer5 жыл бұрын

    The rich have all the power. The rich will never care about the middle class or poor.

  • @tyronerowesr2858

    @tyronerowesr2858

    4 жыл бұрын

    #ADOS IS OWED WE WANT OUR CHECK NOW. DR KING DREAM WILL COME TRUE WHEN WE GET THAT CHECK. THE BLACK VETERAN SC.

  • @TheNoirAlien

    @TheNoirAlien

    4 жыл бұрын

    The middle class are delusional with dreams of becoming the Elite someday, because of their skin color smh

  • @westsidegranny6100

    @westsidegranny6100

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sideshowdrummer. And one thing I have noticed about the rich, beside being cheap, they are way competitive with each other. Kinda like keeping up with the Jones. I once lived in s ghetto. My son hated that school system . In fact he was 10 percent top SAT and refused ivy league. Anyhow They were as ll social climbers. The women dumped their babies to play bridge and tennis and when the kids were old enough they all had t v in their rooms. Dump again. Jr league, you know the type. Anyhow I was a fish out of water. When we split I bought a house in a mixed area where I could actually breath. Guess i dislike " the rich,"

  • @fasteddylove-muffin6415

    @fasteddylove-muffin6415

    4 жыл бұрын

    @white What white said. They have no incentive to care about the middle class or poor. Period. They live in worlds of their own making.

  • @sharoncrawford3042

    @sharoncrawford3042

    4 жыл бұрын

    Who cares. Just live life and be happy for what you have.

  • @lightboy183
    @lightboy18310 жыл бұрын

    Its one thing to be a rich man but it's another thing to be rich a man stepping on your fellowbrothers neck

  • @seangotts6470

    @seangotts6470

    6 жыл бұрын

    the common man will only stand for somone steping on there neck for so long before they break the leg with a fucking steel bar

  • @edwconr

    @edwconr

    5 жыл бұрын

    ayn rynd...dnyr nya...????

  • @toddlavigne6441

    @toddlavigne6441

    5 жыл бұрын

    that's the problem....many of these billionaire are crooks that have indirectly ripped everyone off yet nobody punishes them.

  • @allisonrogers1409

    @allisonrogers1409

    5 жыл бұрын

    The wealthy are under no obligation, by moral or other reason, to subsidize the poor.

  • @tedcrilly46

    @tedcrilly46

    5 жыл бұрын

    @allison rogers. well that depends. did this rich person benefit, cost free, from society during their formative years? If, for example, the richer person went to a publicly funded school then surely they owe at the very least the final net cost of the education they received from the public purse. (I would argue that they owe much more than just the cost, but rather also owe a legacy percentage of their entire net worth, since the education given was used to generate later profit). ...but surely the net cost at the very least. pay it back. now if you extend the same principal to every piece of social infrastructure which was used in the formation of their final being, ...and which they benefited from, cost free until the day they started earning....then the debt must be extremely high. remember, no free lunch. to get to the school required they use roads, pay up, plus their share of each minute of education will have to take in the associated cost of the teachers own use of the roads, the cost of electricity for the school...not just the units of power, but the associated cost of building the electrical network and any associated dams or reactors. All for YOUR education. If none of that was there, then you never would have been educated, and could not get rich. So pay YOUR share. Of the WHOLE cost. You're morally obliged to pay for what you got, and what you got has a trail of secondary and tertiary costs stretching waaaaayyy down the line in every direction. if there was so much as a plumber at your school, ... and you want complete moral freedom from society ..... and that plumber was educated at a public institution, then your use of that school includes a share of the cost of the education of the plumber. the plumber which your school benefited from, ...which you in turn benefited from. the rich suckled at societys tit just like everyone else. if anyone wants to be free of moral obligation then they must pay back every cent associated with societys influence on their life. From their share of the total cost of the maternal ward in which they were born, and the associated costs of doctor training for the staffing from which they benefited,... and their share of any sea port cost for imported medicine and equipment, to the future projected cost of any road laid which might bring them to the cemetery, and every traffic light en route, and the training of civil engineers to plan those roads, and their individual share of the defense and police and justice budget during their entire life time. Since they were protected by society the whole time. every single public service. from diplomats and foreign embassies, to the footpaths which any employee of theirs uses. and all associated costs pay every cent back. then there is no obligation.

  • @ntwadumela374
    @ntwadumela3742 жыл бұрын

    these "social service professionals" are the main reason poor people decide to stay poor

  • @alphaomega1351

    @alphaomega1351

    Жыл бұрын

    Actually it's religious mythology and welfare for those younger than 25. 😶

  • @thanyabattaglia6377
    @thanyabattaglia63774 жыл бұрын

    Very Good Documentary! :)

  • @richcampus
    @richcampus5 жыл бұрын

    ~●~"... in order to produce the luxuries of the rich... there must be an abundance of the poor..." ~●~ Voltaire

  • @pamelahomeyer748
    @pamelahomeyer7484 жыл бұрын

    Morals have Shrugged, the church has Shrugged, the Billionaire's want you to owe everything to The Company Store. People who are addicted to making money I think that there's no such thing as enough

  • @Food-Dharma

    @Food-Dharma

    4 жыл бұрын

    Pamela Homeyer True, greed knows no limit.

  • @prestontownsend862

    @prestontownsend862

    4 жыл бұрын

    "After this I saw another angel descending from heaven with great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his glory. And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: "She has fallen! Babylon the Great has fallen, and she has become a dwelling place of demons and a place where every unclean spirit and every unclean and hated bird lurks! For because of the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, all the nations have fallen victim, and the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH became rich owing to the power of her shameless luxury." www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&docid=1101988036&srctype=wol&srcid=share&par

  • @monnikhan1000

    @monnikhan1000

    3 жыл бұрын

    They even tax the homeless now too it’s fucked up

  • @BobbyGeneric145

    @BobbyGeneric145

    3 жыл бұрын

    Good point Pamela... My only solace is that if the global economy takes a dump, Ill go Beyond Thunderdome immediately and the 1% will be targets for me and my minions!

  • @smileygladhands

    @smileygladhands

    2 жыл бұрын

    Making money definitely gives off a large dopamine hit, some more than for others. Pretty similar to being addicted to drugs, there's no such thing as "enough".

  • @InTheNow2020
    @InTheNow20204 жыл бұрын

    "It's a zero sum game pal, there are no winners or losers, the money just merely changes hands". - Gordon Gekko - Wall Street

  • @tradingbull007
    @tradingbull0072 жыл бұрын

    wow, very kowledgeable information, thank you

  • @lyledeyounges1276
    @lyledeyounges12769 жыл бұрын

    The greed of these people is mind-blowing...

  • @bethbartlett5692

    @bethbartlett5692

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ego -

  • @ToddSloanIAAN

    @ToddSloanIAAN

    5 жыл бұрын

    Beth Bartlett My wife has it. I used to until I saw how to not let it go unchecked.It refuses to recognize her humanity inside her real spiritual self. Sad sad sad. It's that way for most, I think.

  • @bethbartlett5692

    @bethbartlett5692

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ToddSloanIAAN It is the Materialism - the Adolescent Ego-Minded rather that Ethical Conscious Application of thought that develops Mature Balanced Thought - Behaviors. And "Spiritual" is absolutely so accurate - the higher self and the step we are here to make. So precision accurate you are.

  • @ToddSloanIAAN

    @ToddSloanIAAN

    5 жыл бұрын

    Beth Bartlett ...like a blind consumer race... materialism is your accurate assessment! Bigger is better is a program we blindly chase like a carrot leading the horse race! The American dream is just that... to be fair in spirit about it honestly in my opinion. Thanks for your input, it means great peace today!

  • @allisonrogers1409

    @allisonrogers1409

    5 жыл бұрын

    You're assuming wealth = greed . Why? The wealthy are under no obligation to subsidize the poor.

  • @broadwayblack5782
    @broadwayblack57827 жыл бұрын

    My dad has been in banking for 12 years now he works for a PE firm. The corruption is true but when you're in that circle of people it's like a bubble and you don't care about what's outside of it or who isn't in it. I live in Lower Manhattan in SoHo

  • @SupaDupaaFlyy
    @SupaDupaaFlyy Жыл бұрын

    36:24 Imagine thinking getting a degree is the only way to get out of poverty. I grew up in the South Bronx and got out of there cause I developed a entrepreneurial mindset. The only reason I got of there was to stop thinking like a work slave and start thinking bigger.

  • @KyanUganda-yh5bc

    @KyanUganda-yh5bc

    10 ай бұрын

    Totally owning instead of working is the way

  • @uniqtraveller2162
    @uniqtraveller2162 Жыл бұрын

    The best ever documentary!

  • @philly440
    @philly4405 жыл бұрын

    At what point do you run out of things to waste money on? like how much money does one person actually need and can even spend I just don't get it... On top of their greed, they don't even pay any taxes it's mind blowing

  • @chuckkottke

    @chuckkottke

    4 жыл бұрын

    But Trump wants to buy Greenland! Greedland wants Greenland.🙂😀🙃

  • @waitforit6524
    @waitforit65244 жыл бұрын

    All that arrogance, and well all end up being food for worms.

  • @rogermckenzie2569

    @rogermckenzie2569

    4 жыл бұрын

    Now u know

  • @waitforit6524

    @waitforit6524

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Zulu Immortal I agree, being poor on the other hand is not nice.

  • @danieldoucet9121

    @danieldoucet9121

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Zulu Immortal That kind of thinking just further demonstrates that we are a species of primates who got lucky when ice melted over 10,000 years ago, created agriculture and allowed residual survival instincts to hijack civilization by becoming addicted to the conveniences we experience from generating electricity largely via the burning of fossil fuels. If you don't believe that wait till the power goes out for a couple days. Most people in cities and suburbs are royally screwed and money means the square root of fuck all.

  • @zcorpalpha2462
    @zcorpalpha246211 ай бұрын

    This show is 10 years old 😂 2013 - 2023 🔥 NYC is not once it was

  • @MarkDavid-gi9vw
    @MarkDavid-gi9vw3 жыл бұрын

    “Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.” -Pope Francis I, 1936-”

  • @surplusdivision2461
    @surplusdivision24616 жыл бұрын

    Being born poor is not your fault. If you choose to stay poor it is.

  • @MusehanaH

    @MusehanaH

    20 күн бұрын

    How does anyone chose to be poor? 🤔

  • @tonywilson6020
    @tonywilson60205 жыл бұрын

    just imagine if all americans were made to watch these kind of documentries befor the election

  • @westsidegranny6100

    @westsidegranny6100

    4 жыл бұрын

    Guess BERNIE would win.

  • @carolpritchard330

    @carolpritchard330

    4 жыл бұрын

    But by it's very nature "forcing" people to do anything closes their minds . Now if we could get everyone to set aside their preconceived bias and actually participate ( vote) we could do something about this . Most everyone i know are not planning to vote because it does not matter who we vote for that's not who we'll get . A new President can't fix this ; it's going to have to be more drastic .

  • @westsidegranny6100

    @westsidegranny6100

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@carolpritchard330 q

  • @westsidegranny6100

    @westsidegranny6100

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@carolpritchard330 Carol P. Believe in BERNIE. He can heal this devastation.

  • @philliplyn2692

    @philliplyn2692

    4 жыл бұрын

    True facts hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work up 🙏🙏🙏🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲💪💪💪

  • @KingDanny9
    @KingDanny92 жыл бұрын

    Things are way worse now. Even college grads are having a hard time making ends meet. Cost of living is higher than ever before, only millionaires can buy a house these days. Rent leases are getting more and more extreme, greed is destroying everything.

  • @MeZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZ
    @MeZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZ2 жыл бұрын

    True journalism involves not showing a bias towards any one side. It's pretty clear "the why," violated this rule.

  • @gbaum8272

    @gbaum8272

    2 жыл бұрын

    You mean like Fox News?

  • @MeZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZ

    @MeZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZ

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@gbaum8272 ALL main stream media is trash.

  • @MrTerraincognita
    @MrTerraincognita6 жыл бұрын

    I have no problems with people being rich. But we really need a political change so that this wealth cannot be so easily used to undermine our democracy and rigg the system. Most of our modern problems would dwindle or at least lose a lot of magnitude if we had an amendment that made it illegal to donate more than 5 USD per person to a candidate. Any politician who is not promoting something in this direction cannot truly claim to be wanting to drain the swamp. Because the merging of Big Money and Politics IS the swamp!!

  • @AndrewAkelo

    @AndrewAkelo

    4 жыл бұрын

    Simple, #DemocracyDollars #AndrewYang2020

  • @chocolatewoman926

    @chocolatewoman926

    4 жыл бұрын

    MrTerraincognita What would be the point of being rich? Rich people since the beginning of time have ruled through wealth and privilege. That's one of many reasons getting rich is a goal...to get what you want, to get your way. Look around.

  • @Naheenmather
    @Naheenmather4 жыл бұрын

    If we didn’t have the government, who would bail out the banks and companies?

  • @skyryder8116

    @skyryder8116

    4 жыл бұрын

    The people have always bailed out just not by our choice with no say so in how out tax money is spent. STOP FEEDING THE MONSTER.

  • @paulmackiewicz9836
    @paulmackiewicz98362 жыл бұрын

    You mean life is unfair, and some people start out with less than others? Welcome to reality. Get educated. Learn a trade. My grandparents came to the US with nothing and received no assistance. Everyone of their children were successes. But everyone worked 7 days a week. You do your best. There is no guarantee.

  • @ravindertalwar553
    @ravindertalwar553 Жыл бұрын

    WONDERFUL💋💋 PRESENTATION AND GREATLY EXCITED TO EXPLORE

  • @shirleyz.4506
    @shirleyz.45067 жыл бұрын

    "In a well governed country, poverty is something to be ashamed of; in a poorly governed country, wealth is something to be ashamed of" - Confucius

  • @user-td7xf3gz4l

    @user-td7xf3gz4l

    5 жыл бұрын

    Poor are rich in the USA

  • @SabrinaDacosta

    @SabrinaDacosta

    4 жыл бұрын

    No they are not

  • @rockchalk9078
    @rockchalk90786 жыл бұрын

    "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" : Hebrews 9:27 KJV

  • @shahrul1962
    @shahrul19622 жыл бұрын

    David Koch died in Aug 2019. Apparently, he was the richest guy down in his cemetery.

  • @headron66

    @headron66

    2 жыл бұрын

    @shahrul1962 😂😂 shrouds have no pockets!

  • @davidalvarado6507

    @davidalvarado6507

    2 жыл бұрын

    Like it matters, justice being done if you ask me 🤣🤣🤣

  • @terrellbrannon8435
    @terrellbrannon84352 жыл бұрын

    This was amazing!

  • @denelson83
    @denelson838 жыл бұрын

    Poverty isn't liberty, folks.

  • @rareone5041

    @rareone5041

    4 жыл бұрын

    denelson83 It’s not poverty if you don’t want much.

  • @oracleoffinance7313

    @oracleoffinance7313

    4 жыл бұрын

    Poverty is the other side of wealth. You cannot have wealthy people without poor people. You cannot have poor people without wealthy people. The world needs to awaken to these truths. The sad thing is that they have convinced poor people that they should want to become rich. Until we all abandon the goal of becoming rich there will always be poverty.

  • @jackhasselhoff1021

    @jackhasselhoff1021

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oracle of Finance there could be middle class if you control populous control only problem is rich people are competitive and want every last crumb that's immoral and collapse if civilization if rich want slaves fuck that it's bad enough people are poor but complete enslavement I'd rather die and I phukn mean that shot stabbed and homeless to living a decent life paying taxes and you think imma see a cage or oppression try again

  • @MultiSmartass1

    @MultiSmartass1

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@oracleoffinance7313 Wealth cannot exist without poverty. one requires the other. This is why it is a Zero Sum Gain. A few have great sums. Some gain. Most have zero.

  • @KelligerP

    @KelligerP

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@oracleoffinance7313 That's like saying water needs to be hoarded instead of running free so all can use what they need.

  • @noname-by3qz
    @noname-by3qz4 жыл бұрын

    Can't hear it all. But hoarding wealth causes poverty.

  • @MultiSmartass1

    @MultiSmartass1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thats capitalism for you.

  • @timothynesbitt9148

    @timothynesbitt9148

    4 жыл бұрын

    No! No! There's still trickle Down of wealth is not there (Being being Ironic)

  • @inimacam3945

    @inimacam3945

    4 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/d5-Gu9eGodqTcpM.html

  • @yosquidd242

    @yosquidd242

    2 жыл бұрын

    American Economics 101 must take American History 100 as prerequisite

  • @LMays-cu2hp
    @LMays-cu2hp2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing.

  • @mns8732
    @mns87322 жыл бұрын

    My brother was part of the 1 percent. Then he went to jail.

  • @spurs541

    @spurs541

    2 жыл бұрын

    How long he get

  • @TheWinterShadow
    @TheWinterShadow5 жыл бұрын

    ""Look at us. Look at what they make you give."" - Jason Bourne

  • @alexzhu4710
    @alexzhu47104 жыл бұрын

    it's really one of the most impact video I v ever seen. my father left me 9 years ago, that's the first time i met the death of my family numbers. i knew this feeling, and it changed my life

  • @frederikawells5785
    @frederikawells57852 жыл бұрын

    Welcome to America 🇺🇸

  • @christopherh5672
    @christopherh56724 жыл бұрын

    Looking in on the U.S makes me wonder how and why they don’t see this and do something about it. There so dumbed down its shocking. Wake up

  • @kilibubblecata6266

    @kilibubblecata6266

    4 жыл бұрын

    Over half of us realize it. We don't have the money or power (which are essentially the same thing) to do anything about it. That's the whole point. We try anyway - we vote, we become activists, some of us get into politics and law ourselves to try and change things from the inside, but the system itself is broken beyond repair at this point. It has to collapse completely and fuck over a lot more people before any real change will happen - that's just the reality. And most significantly, it's pretty hard when Trump has literally brainwashed such a huge portion of the country. It's not that we're dumb (not all of us anyway); it's that we have been so heavily divided and pitted against each other in an attempt to distract us from the real people who are fucking all of us over equally.

  • @Hannah-zw9ow

    @Hannah-zw9ow

    3 жыл бұрын

    There are PLENTY of people trying to do something about this. You’re the one who needs to wake up.

  • @Ai-he1dp
    @Ai-he1dp5 жыл бұрын

    The world is governed by fear and poverty. What a wonderful world.

  • @kerripendragon4888

    @kerripendragon4888

    4 жыл бұрын

    It's an uncivilized system runned and promoted by narcs and psychos .

  • @margiecallahan3009
    @margiecallahan30094 жыл бұрын

    Huh! I thought I knew a lot until watching this. I didn't know the lobbyists literally "wrote the bills." The politicians have been bought with every angle.

  • @lhenaguevarra1044
    @lhenaguevarra10443 жыл бұрын

    I'm glad this one is on YT

  • @CedricSmith-un6vm
    @CedricSmith-un6vm10 ай бұрын

    Incredible, wow, I am glad/happy I am watching this.

  • @uttaradit2
    @uttaradit24 жыл бұрын

    75% of wealth in the USA is inherited

  • @Stoneface_

    @Stoneface_

    4 жыл бұрын

    uttaradit2 does the US have inheritance tax?

  • @uttaradit2

    @uttaradit2

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Stoneface_ not like u'd notice

  • @westsidegranny6100

    @westsidegranny6100

    4 жыл бұрын

    Inherited by, if I remember correctly. Spoiled brats who dont give a rat's ass about anyone but their possee.

  • @jamilp670

    @jamilp670

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Stoneface_ even if so these guys have offshore accounts to pay lower or no tax

  • @monnikhan1000

    @monnikhan1000

    3 жыл бұрын

    Royal bloodlines tho

  • @MR-rj9iw
    @MR-rj9iw4 жыл бұрын

    "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?"

  • @jolu6272

    @jolu6272

    4 жыл бұрын

    A good comfortable life style for him and his family generations to come, that saying don't mean shit.

  • @pedrocenteio6228

    @pedrocenteio6228

    4 жыл бұрын

    it doesn't profit themselves nor society, imagine how much better we would all be without this type of greed.

  • @jolu6272

    @jolu6272

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@pedrocenteio6228 if you only have 1 suit of cloth and 1 pair of shoes you can call others greedy, but if you have multiple you are just like them only on a smaller scale and if you get the chance you would be there neighbor. The poor always curse the rich while still having enough to share but they dont because they consider two pairs of shoes is not enough when u only wear one at a time.

  • @pedrocenteio6228

    @pedrocenteio6228

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jolu6272 I am not broke nor am I close to being broke , if I had a chance to move next to one of these people I would not, I chose to stay away from these people. I know how politics work and how the robber barrons accumulated their wealth. about 20 years ago I received a call from fidelity investments and the topic was about morality in investing, in short I told them that morality matters. so don't assume that I or all people would conduct themselves like a thief.

  • @jolu6272

    @jolu6272

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@pedrocenteio6228 exactly you are not broke that mean you are saving cash so why are you bitter about them doing the same.

  • @alexanderlinder1114
    @alexanderlinder11148 ай бұрын

    I think it is important to always look out for yourself and don’t end up working in the bottom of industries too long. Work hard and demand hard for each and every one of us!

  • @debraashley8831
    @debraashley88312 жыл бұрын

    Speak with the folks you elected to represent you - they seem to be doing very well, financially.

  • @skyryder8116
    @skyryder81164 жыл бұрын

    Hope is the biggest lie we've ever been convinced of. Humanity is one big lie. STOP FEEDING THE MONSTER.

  • @Shawnne01
    @Shawnne018 жыл бұрын

    Good video. Truth said well. Sad for most of us. We are all going backwards instead of forwards.

  • @TheJummy7

    @TheJummy7

    8 жыл бұрын

    get a job. If that don't work, get two or three.

  • @HypnoticHollywood

    @HypnoticHollywood

    8 жыл бұрын

    If everybody just got a job then who would create the companies that cut the paychecks?

  • @catherinegillan4404

    @catherinegillan4404

    7 жыл бұрын

    the thing with media is they tell you government figures and .........and we all know how spot on they are

  • @bodycanvastattooshop6893

    @bodycanvastattooshop6893

    7 жыл бұрын

    jummy neww Ok, during the documentary it's said that the CEO, on average, used to make 20 times the working employee...but now in this age, make on average, 231 times the worker. If you're a hard enough worker, maybe you can get 230 more jobs to compensate.

  • @HypnoticHollywood

    @HypnoticHollywood

    7 жыл бұрын

    DeMarcus Shelborne Or he can figure out how to add 230 times more value to his company then he might be next up for the CEO spot if it opens up.

  • @mig7290
    @mig72902 жыл бұрын

    Excellent documentary. I having seen it all yet but I'm making a comment bet that the movie Trading Places will be mentioned.

  • @darrenneil4533
    @darrenneil45332 жыл бұрын

    Good stuff!

  • @johnbooth4174
    @johnbooth41748 жыл бұрын

    Could the background music be a little louder? Jeez! It's supposed to be "background" music, not "foreground" music!

  • @Thugh130

    @Thugh130

    4 жыл бұрын

    You worry about the wrong things

  • @mytravls

    @mytravls

    4 жыл бұрын

    👏👏 copy that.

  • @MissBanks777
    @MissBanks7774 жыл бұрын

    I like how the fundamentals of the game of monopoly was included in the beginning... great analogy of how the rich are lucky and become arrogant. They then care less about the poor...

  • @nateosborn9221

    @nateosborn9221

    2 жыл бұрын

    Do the poor and the rich not think the same of each other?

  • @JR-hw7bk

    @JR-hw7bk

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nateosborn9221 No. But if the poor did it would be more than justified.

  • @nateosborn9221

    @nateosborn9221

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JR-hw7bk elaborate if u don’t mind

  • @JR-hw7bk

    @JR-hw7bk

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nateosborn9221 You sound like you're trying to justify how the ultra rich in this country treat the poor by claiming that the poor are just as resentful. Although a relatively small number of the poor are opening their eyes to the truth, the great majority still idolize the rich and still believe that if they just work hard they'll be one of them too.

  • @nateosborn9221

    @nateosborn9221

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@JR-hw7bk well im not talking about how everyone views the rich or the poor, but I was curious and posed a question to think about, but i do feel like the ultra rich and ultra poor have some resentment to each other, would you explore what you mean by truth as well?

  • @Mark-ro5lf
    @Mark-ro5lf2 жыл бұрын

    The american dream won't come to those who are thinking only in a pay day check, it will only come to those who has a different mindset.

  • @namedrop721

    @namedrop721

    2 жыл бұрын

    The American dream ain’t in 60hr/week and still can’t pay housing and food, you cretin

  • @elizdonovan5650
    @elizdonovan56502 жыл бұрын

    Interesting. Good view. Recommend watching. ☘️🌝🌲