She is one of a kind. We need more people like her with power and money to help make the necessary changes so badly needed in this country. Thank you Abigail.
Each of us is one of a kind but her point is that there are more than just herself. Each of us daily can be this way. I recognize that in many people I know, people I have met, and people I have not met. We are one. Humanity is one body. The biosphere is one body.
Noooooo, that's exactly what she's saying we don't need. We can't depend on the few good ultra rich to save us. We need to make changes to do that as a society.
She has no power and her money was left to her by someone who did in fact work hard. Sounds like maybe you should work hard, take care of your own and worry less about what others have.
Someone once told me that for Bill Gates to buy a Porsche was equivalent to the average person buying a pack of chewing gum. That's how bad economic inequality has become. We need more wealthy people like Abigail Disney, someone who is actually wealthy herself, to expose the flaws in our wealth distribution.
Now imagine Jeff Bezos, he could essentially buy every single available Porsche, give them out like candy, and he'd probably still have enough to buy a small country.
Your a great fool speaking on an issue on which you are intellectually blind. -tell me, how much $ did Gates, or Bezos or Disney take out of your pocket? -then tell me, how much did they put in?
@@WorshipinIdols I'm gonna go with no money. They gave me no money. They use our infrastructure, they get money from our taxes to make things that only their companies profit from, they price out small businesses, they are anti-union and anti-worker. Gates and Walt Disney are both famously eugenicists and Bezos is just pure distillate evil. Don't come to me and tell me to lick billionaire boots, it is not happening.
I agree with Ms Disney- my mum used to say that kids who inherited all their wealth would not grow up to be good citizens. She said that we needed to earn our wealth to really appreciate it.
Justice and generosity are not optional..... super, has a very deep meaning and to understand this one has to be a human, this is work of life. Thank you and best wishes
Abigail Disney found enlightenment, she knew that she only eat 3 times a day, one set of clothes, one pair of shoes and one pair of glasses for her needs one day. The one that she needs is a happiness. Thanks for your philosophy.
"Being a Human Being" made simple. The precepts of goodness are with us and within us. More than speaking the truth, be the truth. Bravo Abigail Disney.
Right on. Happiest people are in Denmark and they pay the highest taxes. Also in general you can’t tell who is really rich or not because people don’t flaunt it. Wealth inequality and also poverty and homelessness are not such a big problem as in America
A message every American needs to understand. Thank you. And the first thing we can do is take the word "career " out of career politician. Term limits are so badly needed.
This interview is a wonderful tonic for my broken heart that I have for my country.❤️🩹 Sure hope our democratic republic can hold on long enough to be helped by the kinds of things that she’s doing.
Make enough money to put food on your table is fine. However, an employee should be paid enough to live within the city limits of the city in which they work.
@@williamshafer3199 Well, that’s a baby step, I guess! If you can tone down the violent rhetoric, that would be wonderful, too! 😀 Have a great day, sir!
Quote amazing… and right she is. If one considers the pressure, she got and lived through (and still is confronted with that) , from the meritocracy system. One owns her an enormous respect and wishing her strength and love for her , privately and for her quest!❣️
It’s really nice to see someone just be their authentic self w/o fear. She is very courageous to just really want to help people. I applaud her wanting to get money out of politics for the good of the whole!
A lot of very wealthy people work to keep wealth and power out of the hands of citizens. Keeping a democracy when people in power don’t have a clue about how it is to live in democracy.
I’ve seen this first had with my ex-husband and his family. It is just sad. With great wealth cones great responsibility. I totally respect this woman and hope people really hear her message.
Money can be like a crutch in that it can be helpful, but we must learn to truly walk without it. I do not mean that we should live ascetic lives or throw it away, but that it must be seen as a tool, not so much as a destiny and/or sole reason to live for.
.. I watched this and, after an hour, I still feel I was in an altered reality... I vaguely recall hearing about people of this kind, but till now did not 'know' any of them... I hope this lady makes a différance... commandable...
I think she's right, and we need to keep envisioning what kind of society we want. I can imagine a gradual shift to grassroots candidates getting into office, changing the tax codes and economic structure to shift us towards worker owned companies, an equitable distribution of wealth, better shared commons for health and wellness, an emphasis on education and research needed to keep the ecological balance and have a healthy economy, reduce conflict, and aim us more towards higher goals of enlightenment through exploring the universe, understand life, and enjoying good experiences together. All the gold and power in the world cannot compare to the true treasures in our hearts and minds. Keep on carrying the flame Abigail!! 🗽
The greatest happiness is to do things you love and work with people. If the poor and middle class do better it will benefit everyone. The rich could get the most satisfaction and happiness from helping the ordinary people do better
She seems sincere I commend her for her honesty. I heard about the story of corporations giving up on working Americans and giving into personal greed. They are against democracy because democracy involves inclusion and at no.time do they want that.
Adam Smith wrote more about the dangers and damage caused by wealthy "rent seekers" than he did about the invisible hand of markets. The "natural order" is money and power being used to get more money and power... That was by far the most common government/social structure throughout human history. We only avoid falling into something like an aristocracy by constantly fighting against it.
How inspiring!!! I love watching interviews with Abigail!!! I wish there were more wealthy people like her, and the other "patriotic millionaires" she talked about!!! She gives me hope!!
She’s actually the granddaughter of Roy, brother of Walt. Roy was Walt’s partner in Disney, Inc. He handled money, and the day-to-day operations. Roy was every bit as critical to the outfit as Walt, who was the visionary.
I'm surprised she hasn't been marginalized - or silenced by the significantly powerful Aristocracy above her. Amazing woman who represents almost the thinnest majority of her social class. 🎬🦖☄
She teaches her children that generosity is essential. To my mind, after 8 decades of noticing, generosity of spirit is the definition of love. Material generosity that *flows* from that is also love. Otherwise it’s just a tax deduction.
I like Abagail Disney. But I found it somewhat telling when she described the "problems" of inherited money, alcoholism, addiction, divorce, Never finding your purpose, general unhappiness. You don't have to be rich to experience any of these problems, you just have to be human. Our experiences color our perceptions, but in essence we are all experiencing the same reality. The society we have created is killing us. Even the rich know it!
One of the great lies of America and capitalism in general is "that the purpose of a business is to make money!" IT IS NOT! It is to "PROVIDE"! To provide goods and/or services to its customers and livelihood to its owners and employees. We have forgotten this simple truth!
I do believe that she is the only very rich person I've ever listened to that is a wise and admirable woman that I have respect for. If ALL rich people would adopt her point of view, this country would be filled with much happier healthier less stressful people. Imagine an America that actually lived up to its ideals! We would actually be the shining city on the hill and the admiration of the whole world! Umbuntu! One can't be happy and content unless ALL are happy and content. In other words, we have to learn to care about each other. Even if we are filthy rich...
I appreciate her ideals and moral compass, I do. But i dont care about how she's been to the food bank. She couldn't ever have a clue about the regular person in America, let alone the regular person in the world. I'm glad she's trying but the divide between the haves and the have-nots is just getting bigger and bigger. I wish she and others could understand but they simply can't. We need more people like her to at least try.
Walt Disney was known to ruthlessly a avoided paying full taxes for decades. So it is anachronistic to hear Abigail say how much her grandfather told her that he cared about his employees' well-being when the very taxes he sought to avoid where destined for the people he supposedly cared for. Don't get me wrong; I applaud her for speaking so frankly about what causes the US wealth gap. However, as good of a picture as she paints of her grandfather, Walt was complete adherent of Milton Friedman's neo-liberal economic theories and even saw the tax increase on the wealthy post-WWII as a type of "Communism." It was our worker-friendly economic structure of the 50s and 60s taxing companies and the wealthy that made America a land of opportunity, but it was Friedman and Powell that made the rich richer and the poor poorer from the 70s onward. That was music to the ears of the millionaire class then and now. But we need more of the ultra-wealthy to stop aspiring to be American royalty without any of the concept of noblesse oblige. We cast off British rule because they over taxed colonists to finance their extravagances and now the modern wealthy want to do the same without any social responsibility.
Frankly, segment prethought was boring & unrelatable; afterthought, intelligent and nuanced. Thank you, both, for cracking a window into the unhealthily dark world of wealth.
Here I am, 6 months later- what Action toward these Goals has been instituted or even initiated? We The People Need Actual Progress, Action, toward True Democracy. We Need to See and Feel, to Hear of Real Moves to Reform and Save Honest Democracy for Our Nation and Every Citizen Present and Future!!
Wonderful to see an heiress so aware of why she is wealthy. And not interested in being Lady Bountiful, distributing gifts to her favourite foundations and charities, sometimes with a building named after her.
What a wonderful human being. Thank you Abigail 😊💓
"We can have democracy or we can have the wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both."-Louis Brandeis.
Or we can have people like you who seems like a communist who wants what others worked for.
Feel like donating a group hug when I hear people like Abigail Disney speak. Humanity does produce some cool folks.
She is one of a kind. We need more people like her with power and money to help make the necessary changes so badly needed in this country. Thank you Abigail.
Each of us is one of a kind but her point is that there are more than just herself. Each of us daily can be this way. I recognize that in many people I know, people I have met, and people I have not met.
We are one. Humanity is one body.
The biosphere is one body.
@@dreamervanroom Correct. And the realization of this Truth transcends even knowledge itself.
Noooooo, that's exactly what she's saying we don't need. We can't depend on the few good ultra rich to save us. We need to make changes to do that as a society.
@@Miollvynir -- Right on!
She has no power and her money was left to her by someone who did in fact work hard. Sounds like maybe you should work hard, take care of your own and worry less about what others have.
Someone once told me that for Bill Gates to buy a Porsche was equivalent to the average person buying a pack of chewing gum. That's how bad economic inequality has become. We need more wealthy people like Abigail Disney, someone who is actually wealthy herself, to expose the flaws in our wealth distribution.
Now imagine Jeff Bezos, he could essentially buy every single available Porsche, give them out like candy, and he'd probably still have enough to buy a small country.
@@savascha Couldn't help myself and did the math. Roughly 30 to 40 billion I figure.
@@MrLuigiFercotti which leaves him a paltry 150-160 billion
Your a great fool speaking on an issue on which you are intellectually blind.
-tell me, how much $ did Gates, or Bezos or Disney take out of your pocket?
-then tell me, how much did they put in?
@@WorshipinIdols I'm gonna go with no money. They gave me no money. They use our infrastructure, they get money from our taxes to make things that only their companies profit from, they price out small businesses, they are anti-union and anti-worker. Gates and Walt Disney are both famously eugenicists and Bezos is just pure distillate evil. Don't come to me and tell me to lick billionaire boots, it is not happening.
Now thats a real Disney princess
good comment
Indeed
@taylor made - Oh I love this comment!
Kept in captivity by shareholders and CEO. Maybe it's time to save her?
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We need to hear much more from this lady. Pay attention, CNN and MSNBC.
?.??? How about pay attention stupid America watching Fox. Bet this lady isnt even invited to speak on Fox. Stupid America
Thank you for letting this remarkable woman have a voice on PBS.
I agree with Ms Disney- my mum used to say that kids who inherited all their wealth would not grow up to be good citizens. She said that we needed to earn our wealth to really appreciate it.
Does she have a fan club? She really deserves one ❣
I rather expect she does, a very small and quiet one. But I also very much doubt she wants one.
Very interesting interview with a wonderful person. Loved it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Justice and generosity are not optional..... super, has a very deep meaning and to understand this one has to be a human, this is work of life. Thank you and best wishes
Every time I see Abigail Disney, my hope for this world is renewed 🌤️
Such a delightful, honest and solid lady! Wish there were more people like her around. If there were, the world would be in a whole lot better shape.
The patriotic millionaires need to put their money behind getting “Citizen’s United” overturned! Bravo Abagail!
#OverturnCitizensUnited #OverturnBUCKLEYvVALEO
Respect to this woman.
I found her profoundly thought provoking.
Real human being human.
Really. How would you feel if I paid you poorly and you relied on welfare for honest work while I give my profits away to other rich people? Wake up.
Amen.
@@jeaninepaquet378 I've seen her interviewed before - she's great. She's like the Bernie Sanders of of rich people
Thank you Abigail for speaking out publicly for what you believe in.
Abigail Disney found enlightenment, she knew that she only eat 3 times a day, one set of clothes, one pair of shoes and one pair of glasses for her needs one day. The one that she needs is a happiness. Thanks for your philosophy.
Thank you,Abigail! For taking the moral high ground.
I hope we hear more from Abigail Disney..
Abigail Disney is the definition of a hero.
"Being a Human Being" made simple. The precepts of goodness are with us and within us. More than speaking the truth, be the truth. Bravo Abigail Disney.
How refreshing to hear her side of this.
If there were economic justice there would be no need for charity and philanthropy
Right on. Happiest people are in Denmark and they pay the highest taxes. Also in general you can’t tell who is really rich or not because people don’t flaunt it. Wealth inequality and also poverty and homelessness are not such a big problem as in America
A message every American needs to understand. Thank you.
And the first thing we can do is take the word "career " out of career politician. Term limits are so badly needed.
Thank you Abigail! Fantastic. Keep fighting the good fight! I so admire and respect you and am grateful I found and saw this interview. I shared it.
Agee; funny how true honesty is instantly recognized w/o conscience thought.
Dear Abigail, hope you get deeply involved in saving the democracy of the USA.
Abigail is an incredible soul. Thanks for teaching us that money shouldn’t blind our way through life.
This interview is a wonderful tonic for my broken heart that I have for my country.❤️🩹
Sure hope our democratic republic can hold on long enough to be helped by the kinds of things that she’s doing.
Make enough money to put food on your table is fine. However, an employee should be paid enough to live within the city limits of the city in which they work.
Yes; you also picked up on her mean patronisng "generosity" toward employees :(
What an excellent and important interview! Thanks a lot for publishing it!
It's good to see a person who understands who they are.. Abigail's search for truth and fellowship is the "happy" Road.
Peace and solidarity!
Wow, she is a breath of fresh air!
Wow,what a Hero:this World needs more people who think like her. Money in Politics is one of the largest threats to our Democracy.
Elizabeth Warren needs to meet up with Ms Disney on reforming tax structures!
Warren & her greed is the best your "Democratic" Part can throw up? Mercan poor need to build guillotines for Warren Trump Besos Biden etc
@@williamshafer3199 Your ridiculous comment is adding absolutely nothing to the conversation.
@@kathleenwyatt563 "Democratic PARTY" my bad :(
@@williamshafer3199 Well, that’s a baby step, I guess! If you can tone down the violent rhetoric, that would be wonderful, too! 😀 Have a great day, sir!
@@kathleenwyatt563 that's generous thankyou; btw its drizzling rain & Covid lockdown sux
Quote amazing… and right she is. If one considers the pressure, she got and lived through (and still is confronted with that) , from the meritocracy system. One owns her an enormous respect and wishing her strength and love for her , privately and for her quest!❣️
It’s really nice to see someone just be their authentic self w/o fear. She is very courageous to just really want to help people. I applaud her wanting to get money out of politics for the good of the whole!
Yes, dynasties are very bad for democracy.
It overlooks the fact that the most important asset is human capital. Children should be enabled to develop their true selfs.
A lot of very wealthy people work to keep wealth and power out of the hands of citizens. Keeping a democracy when people in power don’t have a clue about how it is to live in democracy.
Great interview! Her insights on how things work both politically and financially made this time well spent.
Abigail Disney. What a legend.
A new nobility is being created. These new dynasties have created a larger wealth gap than existed between peasants and medieval nobility.
Money is only important if you don't have enough. Some apparently never have enough.
I’ve seen this first had with my ex-husband and his family. It is just sad. With great wealth cones great responsibility. I totally respect this woman and hope people really hear her message.
Money can be like a crutch in that it can be helpful, but we must learn to truly walk without it. I do not mean that we should live ascetic lives or throw it away, but that it must be seen as a tool, not so much as a destiny and/or sole reason to live for.
.. I watched this and, after an hour, I still feel I was in an altered reality... I vaguely recall hearing about people of this kind, but till now did not 'know' any of them... I hope this lady makes a différance... commandable...
Wow! Great segment. Amazing summary and tying together of decades long threads.
Yes, much respect to Ms. Disney!
Abigail Disney is the kind of rich person I'd like to think I would be, had I inherited a fortune like hers
Thanks Abigail
I think she's right, and we need to keep envisioning what kind of society we want. I can imagine a gradual shift to grassroots candidates getting into office, changing the tax codes and economic structure to shift us towards worker owned companies, an equitable distribution of wealth, better shared commons for health and wellness, an emphasis on education and research needed to keep the ecological balance and have a healthy economy, reduce conflict, and aim us more towards higher goals of enlightenment through exploring the universe, understand life, and enjoying good experiences together. All the gold and power in the world cannot compare to the true treasures in our hearts and minds. Keep on carrying the flame Abigail!! 🗽
Listen to this woman we need her in a position in our system!! 🙏🙏
That's awesome! I've noticed lately that some billionaires have dedicated their lives to giving away all of their wealth 😃
THANK YOU so much for your hard work, honesty and for sharing your wisdom! Refreshing!
The greatest happiness is to do things you love and work with people. If the poor and middle class do better it will benefit everyone. The rich could get the most satisfaction and happiness from helping the ordinary people do better
Selflessness and fairness is the greatest of all virtues. She is the personification of these.
God bless this woman. Hoping it's contagious, this justice leaning thing of hers.
She seems sincere I commend her for her honesty. I heard about the story of corporations giving up on working Americans and giving into personal greed. They are against democracy because democracy involves inclusion and at no.time do they want that.
Adam Smith wrote more about the dangers and damage caused by wealthy "rent seekers" than he did about the invisible hand of markets.
The "natural order" is money and power being used to get more money and power... That was by far the most common government/social structure throughout human history. We only avoid falling into something like an aristocracy by constantly fighting against it.
It takes a woman to tell it like it is . Appreciate it .
Always appreciate hearing from wealthy people who are awake! Thanks
How inspiring!!! I love watching interviews with Abigail!!! I wish there were more wealthy people like her, and the other "patriotic millionaires" she talked about!!! She gives me hope!!
i bet walt would be proud of this granddaughter of his
She’s actually the granddaughter of Roy, brother of Walt. Roy was Walt’s partner in Disney, Inc. He handled money, and the day-to-day operations. Roy was every bit as critical to the outfit as Walt, who was the visionary.
Ugh. And now even our SC has a problem with democracy. Thanks for the interview. She's a wonderful human being.
I'm surprised she hasn't been marginalized - or silenced by the significantly powerful Aristocracy above her. Amazing woman who represents almost the thinnest majority of her social class. 🎬🦖☄
Wealthy, compassionate and sensible!
May God bless you for the hope you bring to the common man.
Thank you.
What a wonderful lady! ❤️ Could she be the hero that we’ve desperately needed?? Great interview!
She teaches her children that generosity is essential. To my mind, after 8 decades of noticing, generosity of spirit is the definition of love. Material generosity that *flows* from that is also love. Otherwise it’s just a tax deduction.
People who have to work often don't find their calling and have substance abuse problems
I like Abagail Disney. But I found it somewhat telling when she described the "problems" of inherited money, alcoholism, addiction, divorce, Never finding your purpose, general unhappiness. You don't have to be rich to experience any of these problems, you just have to be human. Our experiences color our perceptions, but in essence we are all experiencing the same reality. The society we have created is killing us. Even the rich know it!
One of the great lies of America and capitalism in general is "that the purpose of a business is to make money!" IT IS NOT! It is to "PROVIDE"! To provide goods and/or services to its customers and livelihood to its owners and employees. We have forgotten this simple truth!
I do believe that she is the only very rich person I've ever listened to that is a wise and admirable woman that I have respect for. If ALL rich people would adopt her point of view, this country would be filled with much happier healthier less stressful people. Imagine an America that actually lived up to its ideals! We would actually be the shining city on the hill and the admiration of the whole world! Umbuntu! One can't be happy and content unless ALL are happy and content. In other words, we have to learn to care about each other. Even if we are filthy rich...
"We can't rely on people who are not accountable to us (the people)." - Abigail Disney
I appreciate her ideals and moral compass, I do. But i dont care about how she's been to the food bank. She couldn't ever have a clue about the regular person in America, let alone the regular person in the world. I'm glad she's trying but the divide between the haves and the have-nots is just getting bigger and bigger. I wish she and others could understand but they simply can't. We need more people like her to at least try.
What do we need?
Thank you Abigail for your common sense and a message of sanity on wealth. We need to hear more of this. Peace to you.
"Justice And Generosity"💜💜
Abigail Disney? Oh my goodness thank you for your interview. The best Disney film ever.❤️
I’ve found a good candidate for next president of USA. Disney 2024!
Walt Disney was known to ruthlessly a avoided paying full taxes for decades. So it is anachronistic to hear Abigail say how much her grandfather told her that he cared about his employees' well-being when the very taxes he sought to avoid where destined for the people he supposedly cared for.
Don't get me wrong; I applaud her for speaking so frankly about what causes the US wealth gap. However, as good of a picture as she paints of her grandfather, Walt was complete adherent of Milton Friedman's neo-liberal economic theories and even saw the tax increase on the wealthy post-WWII as a type of "Communism." It was our worker-friendly economic structure of the 50s and 60s taxing companies and the wealthy that made America a land of opportunity, but it was Friedman and Powell that made the rich richer and the poor poorer from the 70s onward. That was music to the ears of the millionaire class then and now. But we need more of the ultra-wealthy to stop aspiring to be American royalty without any of the concept of noblesse oblige. We cast off British rule because they over taxed colonists to finance their extravagances and now the modern wealthy want to do the same without any social responsibility.
Frankly, segment prethought was boring & unrelatable; afterthought, intelligent and nuanced. Thank you, both, for cracking a window into the unhealthily dark world of wealth.
What an eye-opening interview. And what an incredible woman Abigail Disney is.
Thank you for trying, Abigail Disney.
Don't go to Disney Land, but do go to the Disney Museum in the San Francisco. It was Disney''s family that created it.
Thanks, Abigail! I want to see that movie you are working on.
NEW HERO!
Abigail Disney you are an amazing person ❤️❤️!! God bless you! 🙏🙏🙏
Right on Abigail Disney ✨🙏🏽🌍🙏🏽✨
Here I am, 6 months later- what Action toward these Goals has been instituted or even initiated? We The People Need Actual Progress, Action, toward True Democracy. We Need to See and Feel, to Hear of Real Moves to Reform and Save Honest Democracy for Our Nation and Every Citizen Present and Future!!
Wonderful to see an heiress so aware of why she is wealthy. And not interested in being Lady Bountiful, distributing gifts to her favourite foundations and charities, sometimes with a building named after her.
She is a very intelligent and insightful individual.
As a Buddhist monk I've learned that having too much is as dangerous as not having enough.
"It becomes harder to construct a democracy when the most powerful people in it have no clue what it's like to lead a real life" - Abigail Disney
This is "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater"-- The Interview.
She looks like her grandfather for sure.
Our fantasies are often larger than reality.
I was taught--by my mother--about the Powell letter decades ago.
"Stand up for interests that aren't your own" we all do this, but whose interests
I admire Abigail Disney.