The One Percent (documentary)

[deutsey]

With all the buzz around Thomas Piketty's new book, I was reminded of this excellent documentary.

"This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing 'wealth gap' in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson, who cut his film teeth at NYU and made the Emmy®-nominated 2003 HBO documentary Born Rich, here sets his sights on exploring the political, moral and emotional rationale that enables a tiny percentage of Americans - the one percent - to control nearly half the wealth of the entire United States. The film Includes interviews with Nicole Buffett, Bill Gates Sr., Adnan Khashoggi, Milton Friedman, Robert Reich, Ralph Nader and other luminaries."

[SamKnause]

1. K&R

I have already seen it.

Thanks for posting the video for others.

[snappyturtle]

2. Here's another good one (52 min.) on the same subject.

Park Avenue: Money Power and the American Dream

[loudsue]

6. That was excellent!! I didn't know Michael Moore had done that!

[snappyturtle]

7. I didn't find his name in the credits! However, parts of the narration sure sound

like Michael Moore....whatever, I agree, it's excellent.

[hedgehog]

3. For us old fogies - both can be streamed from Netflix.

thanks for the reminder!

[loudsue]

4. I just watched the whole thing. Wow! Jamie Johnson is my new hero.

That was appalling, but wonderful of Jamie and the Oscar Meyer heir, Buffett's granddaughter. Some good folks!

[father founding]

5. The Secret to Success

Overcharge your customers and underpay your employees and you will keep on getting richer every year.OH Yeah, and then bitch about high taxes.

[Damansarajaya]

8. Yes, this is very enlightening.

It shows that for most of the very rich folks he interviewed, there is never too much. There is never even enough.

[passiveporcupine]

9. What really amazes me

is that this film is eight years old and this message is only now reaching the realm of public awareness on a scale that might start things moving. This country is so slow to change.