The One Percent
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- čas přidán 31. 10. 2011
- 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.
www.theonepercentdocumentary.com/
The top 1% does to regular people what regular people do to the homeless: ignore them and act like they don't exist. It's funny how it works both ways down the "food chain".
When Jaime revealed that he was doing a project on social issues and class I think that woman nearly choked on her own saliva.
The story behind the documentary is so telling by itself. A billionaire tycoon's son is working on a powerful expose of the economic elite class and that father disregards it like any parent with a kid's temporary hobby, meanwhile the son is showing so much of a hidden world. This doc is incredibly underrated it's mind-blowing.
We need a sequel to this, 10 years later in 2021, and Jamie Johnson explaining what happened with the wealth gap in 2020 as well.
These people pretend not to understand why they are despised... The know full well what they've done to their fellow citizens.
I can't believe people are slating this guy who made this documentary, he might not be perfect but at least he's actually thinking about it and want to do something about it and have the actual guts to confront his own family. Not many would do that.
"There's nothing wrong with nepotism as long as you keep it within the family" lmaoooooooo
thank you for making your video. I am 58 years old and make 7200 a year. I have been in my home for 30 years. I use space heaters or for economics usually just wear lots of clothes and a heating pad so my bed is warm enough to go to bed without shivering. I keep my lights off and have never had cable or a home computer. It is thanksgiving tomorrow and my son and I will not eat anything festive or fancy. I clean hospital rooms for my living. They left some cake yesterday. I have hid it and tomorrow that will be our treat. I don't begrudge anyone anything. I live within my means. This is what it looks like. Your heart is in the right place. You have a soul. Poverty can make you bitter or it can make you thankful for left over cake. I am thankful.
"you're behaving like an arrogant little TRUSTAFARIAN" 😂😂😂 Had to laugh at that one, rich mans slang 😂
I forgot how much I hate Milton Friedman. The fact that he won a Nobel Prize fills me with pessimism
You can't script this:
we need more people like Jamie who's not afraid to ask the important questions. It's really much harder than it seems, so kudos to him for trying to ask and get answers. This is an unmatched documentary from the perspective of on wealth and inequality in American contemporary society. Shows you just how much Jamie had to overcome to get it into production.
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I remember seeing this documentary years ago, I had recently finished high school and was trying to find a path in life to pursue a career. Watching this made me feel hopeless knowing I was struggling to find a path in life and would never be allowed to pursue my dreams because they’d never be financially viable for me to support myself, and seeing these people North so wealthy they essentially could love a very lavish life doing absolutely nothing because they collected the wealth produced by the working class they employed. Since then things have gotten worse, and it’s nearly impossible to move out and by a home even while working full time because wages have stagnated for the majority while people like this have seen record profits and growth in wealth, year after year
For a young man of privilege,his grasp of reality on social inequality is shown in this film.Too bad everyone can’t seem to see this.
What a foreshadowing. So glad this popped up in my YT feed 11 years later. The amount of thumps up you received goes to show just how much your ideas are appreciated. Thank you for following your intuition and finding the courage to push ahead and put this out there. It is now 2023 and I wonder if there is a sequel to that trickle down compound interest mindset they had, is it all they hoped for? Do they see a positive that emerged from all they espoused,? Or are they aware it is just the same ole same ole delusional loop everyone is still on, the one they contributed to. I'd suppose not. I wonder where you are now, 11 years later. Hope you are well. 🙏🏼🍀🤘🏼
Dear Mr. Jamie Johnson,
Watching this with 1% of battery life left, the struggle is real.
Warren Buffett disowned his granddaughter just because she spoke about the film. That's terrible😢
I'm watching in public housing with no hot water from my faucet and maggots in the communal trash shoot due to lack of maintenance. I'm a disabled senior who worked all my life as a medical secretary. Owned my own home for 54 years and now live in utter filth and fear of the other tenants.