99% v 1%: the data behind the Occupy movement - animation

[maryfletcher4]

Good. Capitalism is a system built on inequality, see my video on you tube 'The Money Trick.one man went to mow'

Unless we organise another system, socialism, to be fair and planned-[not Stalinism] nothing will change. Awareness is a first stage, then we have to organise. The Labour party in u.k. is full of socialists, despite Tony Blair, but if more people join we could make it keep to its socialist principles and win the next election and make progress.

[RSAgility]

Watched the entire Ron Paul Ad.

[Okinawapajero]

So you're saying I should go live in a public park and then vandalise public and private property. Ok got it!

[avalon47222]

You want to blame someone blame the corruption in our government and unions. Follow the constitution; the current governemnt is not in line with the constitution

[TheSquirtSquad]

I personally don't think the protests are going to be effective... the protesters have a case but... it's really not being taken that seriously by the government.

[utubemaster047]

The guardian was the first newspaper I started reading once i developed an interest for the news in my teens. 7 years later I have found out they are a left wing paper and I should not rule out any biased articles or statistics. Newsreaders and the BBC have a legal and moral obligation to give impartial news. Why not newspapers?

[dannygozoom]

@utubemaster047 - Oh come on, the Guardian may have a slight left-wing agenda but as newspapers go it's pretty responsible and objective - just remember not to trust everything you read blindly without further inquiry. Everyone has their own agenda and everyone makes mistakes...anyway it's the tabloids you need to worry about.

[aerosmithdreamon]

I am sorry, but i really can't see how this is unfair in any way? They made a succesful business and now we get to live off of their succes. How do we have a right to claim their money as ours?

[guitarplayer4real]

@aerosmithdreamon Yes yes.. the poor dude with no education and drunk in the gutter, he is my equal and deserves everything I have busted my backside for... Even though he has never tried and never contributed anything other than a pricetag for his medical bills and problems.

Yes, my money earned should go to that guy, to feed him and give him the same housing that I work for. After all, we are all equals huh.

Its Nonsense from blithering idiots who do nothing!

[Testruecast]

@aerosmithdreamon E. Maybe that is precisely what they want you to think, that they have earned that income by their effort. The reality is that most of them are part of a casino economy, they seldom work, exploit others and the probability of losing money is equal to cero. On the other hand, by being rich, they not only have economic, but also political influence. Meanwhile the average US citizen pay their greed, becoming an international jail, work and cannon fodder. I am sorry. B.E.R.

[Qopel]

@aerosmithdreamon Yes, you are sorry...and stupid.

[sonicskills123]

whoever agrees with this 99% bull shit is retarded. the people who are millionaires and billionaires worked to get that money. say bill gates. he worked his ASS off to invent the computer and computer technology and he revolutionized the world. so whoever thinks that they are the 99% are just to damn lazy to get a job which requires quite some work to get the money. so think before you protest retards

[Soldier842]

@sonicskills123 Why am I even responding? I don't know...

Anyway, the point you are missing is the ratio between effort and reward.

I know Bill Gates worked his ass off, many highly placed people did to get there. However, if I assume he worked (just picking random numbers here) 12 hours a day, for 40 work years, and then I look at him having 59billion dollars right now, that gives more than 1,4 bil dollars yearly... Can any single human really put in such effort to "justify" such a reward?

[robertrulebirtannia]

@sonicskills123 Yeah people like, Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton Bankers etc, all worked hard for their money, take a walk round reality before you shot you mouth off.

[Ahasuer]

Great video

[fbibarbie]

What??? psh taxes I pay 0% taxes and fit in that 25% bar. what a ton of bs

[JiaIreland]

Here's the truth people!

[tiben36]

1:12

you cant compare a lifetime of wise investing and business with a yearly budget of the USA

hitler was right, jews are the fucking problem here

[xxpinkeepunkxx]

@tiben36

umm, pretty sure jews aren't the problem dumb ass.

[tiben36]

@xxpinkeepunkxx if the jews got kicked out of every country they tried to get their hands on and started AT LEAST three wars, following your sheepy logic, its because the problem must be the rest of the world

[6969dazzagazza]

The problem isn't Wall Street and capitalism.

The problem isn't socialism and the Government.

The problem is the Wall Street/Government partnership.....where Government provides socialism for Wall Street.

Break the link between Government and Wall Street, and negligent Banks would fail, mainstream media would report the facts, corruption would be exposed and punished by Government, and Government would act in the interests of the people through moral obligation.

[mhogjones]

@6969dazzagazza I think that's called fascism...no?

[redball81]

I wanna love this, I really do.

But, @4:06, they vastly UNDERSTATE the inequality b/w CEO and average worker pay: google Corporate PayWatch for the latest data.

In short: the reality is actually MUCH WORSE, people!

@The Guardian: please fix this! It appears you are using old data because your graph stops at year 2005! We have 2010 data now.

[peoplestandup]

Good video well done

[killerbee2k]

correlation does not equal causation

[zeeboid]

Its ironic how many believe in darwinism, but won't apply that belief socially.

[redball81]

@zeeboid darwinism is about the natural forces of BIOLOGY over time. we can't change that.

social darwinism is about societies, which humans create & can change at will.

NICE TRY, THOUGH!

[zeeboid]

@redball81 but to interfear with darwinism in societies not only weakens society... but also points out the hypocritical nature of those who selectivly practice what they preach. Humans after all do not change society at will. society must go through an evolutionary process to change. a process that is as panful and as dangerous as the biological evolution.

[redball81]

@zeeboid "Humans after all do not change society at will."

Huh?

WWII ended Nazi occupation & the Holocaust. The Civil Rights Movement ended Jim Crow. The suffrage movement gave women the vote. You're not making sense.

[Charlie12241]

How can anyone get a job when they are being outsourced or eliminated? Not to mention the jobs you need a degree for which means paying for college. Most college students have debt.

[o53xmyhair]

College is spelled with two Es

[DeadEyeDizzy1]

no money to go to collage blame your parents

[DeadEyeDizzy1]

what do you think collage is for

[migbee]

@DeadEyeDizzy1 Getting robbed by financial institutions in exchange for a completely worthless degree...?

[DeadEyeDizzy1]

OMG people get a jop and work your way up Fucking noobs

[Essentialism155]

I don't think this video unlocks the absolute disgust and rage that it should.

[luckystrike1]

Why does this only have 10k views.

[diablostorm]

Doesn't excuse the police brutality and lack of freedom of speech/expression in this country.

[dooster16]

What happened to Michigan in that map? #failedgeographyclass

[rdean400]

Too much polarization, not enough common ground, let alone common sense.

[smash1man]

Your forgetting the bankers who recived billions from the baillout.

End the FED

End monsanto foods.

Trial the bankers.

Send them to rehabilitation.

End nuclear energy sources.

End military expansion.Love,peace and freedom. 

[DOSAGEDUBZ]

@smash1man you're forgetting about nuclear fusion

[scalp340]

Corporatism is a bitch, fiat money allows for all this, and Ending the fed would fix both of those problems.

[MadThad0890]

HEY! nice map shit head!

WHERE THE FUCK IS BASED MICHIGAN?

[chess1423]

I am not from U.S but still 99.99% and happy

[RoryYale16]

sad how that much money leads to greed and simply destroys a persons soul... these greedy billionaires make me sick, NOBODY needs to have that much money

[woodenmajor]

long live the proletariat masses ! ...death to the evil ,capitalist owner-exploiter and especially to the smugly provincial bourgeoisie !

[cobclark]

The richest 1% pay 37% of the total tax bill. They pay quite a bit more than the bottom 47% who pay 0.

[woodenmajor]

wow , thanks ..i finally understand it ,we need to kill these rich f#kers and just take all their stuff

[cobclark]

@woodenmajor Yeah, kill the wage payers so that everyone is unemployed.

[Laughingblades]

1: End the Fed (or at least nationalize it)

2: Worker Cooperatives (workers get paid more, own the company)

3: Tariffs and Taxes at the ports (reduce outsourcing)

4: Wolf-PAC Get the money out of Washington

[cobclark]

@Laughingblades

1. I can agree, although nationalizing it would only make things worse.

2. Workers don't have the experience to run fortune 500 companies. If they did, they would already own one.

3. If we taxed imports what do you think would happen to our exports?

4. Yes definitely. Shrink the federal government so that there is no need for billions of dollars being spent by lobbyists.

[Laughingblades]

@cobclark

1: Not necessarily, it would give government control of the currency

2: Mondragon Cooperative Corporation, Union Cab, ect proves that workers can manage their companies very effectively. Most who "own" fortune 500's didn't in any way actually earn them, and many fortune 500's do mass harm.

3: It wouldn't matter if we were self sufficient as our founders intended, being dependent on foreign trade is a weakness that cripples us.

4: Not just the federal government, but essentially this.

[cobclark]

@Laughingblades in response to argument 3. We can not grow the wealth of the nation if we do not trade with other countries. If you and I have a shared $500. We can exchange as many goods and services for whatever price but we still only have the initial $500. Once we start trading with Frank then our pool of wealth grows. Trading on the international scale is what brought the US to the forefront as an economic superpower. That is why China is becoming so wealthy now.

[Laughingblades]

@cobclark 3 is not true

Globalization is destroying us, our trade with China alone is not growing our wealth it is abolishing it. The value of currency is not uniform.

America has the power to produce and grow it's own wealth, we can trade, but we should not be reliant on trade. Reliance on trade is a sickness that destroys nations, many of our founders warned us of this, America has sacrificed it's dignity and independence for cheap import goods at Wal-Mart, not to mention American workers.

[cobclark]

@Laughingblades If we do not trade our goods on the global market, how do we grow our wealth?

[Laughingblades]

@cobclark We can build our own wealth, if we rely on foreign trade for all our wealth we will fail and we will deserve to fail. Reliance on foreign trade as the source of wealth for a continental power is just shameful, it's a debilitating weakness.

[cobclark]

@Laughingblades I don't think that we should be 100% reliant on foreign trade, but foreign trade is a useful tool for economic growth. The 70-30 or 60-40 mix, I think, is where our current debate lies.

[Laughingblades]

@cobclark But when it comes at the cost of American jobs, who's it really useful for? A lot of multinational corporations and CEO's who have no loyalty to any country or to any people should not have so much power over our economy. Countries should trade mostly what they can not effectively produce, not in jobs needed to sustain the spending power of their own economy.

[cobclark]

@Laughingblades A prudent policy for government would be to encourage businesses to establish their HQ in the US. A pro-business environment may encourage importation of jobs rather than the current export of jobs. I'm all for low paying jobs going overseas if we can replace them with highly skilled, high wage paying positions. Currently we can't even encourage that. Too many regulations, corporate profit taxes that are too high and a president that discourages success.

[Laughingblades]

@cobclark Letting corporations police themselves shouldn't even be considered an option. They've already been proven to be treasonous prostitutes who try to conquer our federal government through legalized bribery.

[Laughingblades]

@cobclark China is becoming wealthy because they have a strategy of economic conquest whereby they get nations into debt then force special trade deals as a way of paying off that debt, whereby their undervalued currency allows China to dominate the economy of their partner and siphon out it's wealth.

Unless you want to reduce the value of the US dollar to below what China's is worth, and reduce working conditions for US workers to 12 hour days with no benefits and little pay, we can't compete.

[cobclark]

@Laughingblades We can't compete with china.  We can compete with Europe. We can compete with many other nations if we chose to do so. My point is that if we isolate our selves economically, the nation will, most likely, not prosper. Allowing for foreign investment in the US is beneficial and tariffs and duties on imports can stifle investment.

[Laughingblades]

@cobclark I'm not advocating isolationism I'm advocating independence and self sustainability for our nation, we need to stop sending all our jobs over seas at the expense of our own economy.

[cobclark]

@Laughingblades I couldn't agree more.

[Sgmorris0054]

i am one of the 99% and i say to the all the other 99%ers out there? wanna be 1% get a job ... invent something stop bitching stop complaining and earn your own wealth you fucking slackers

[lambrettist2007]

@Sgmorris0054 or be born into fabulous wealth, like most of the 1%.

[Linguiphile]

I work a lot and yet have trouble making ends meet. But should I blame and threaten those who've worked hard and been successful? I prefer my current difficulties in this still somewhat free and prosperous country to the kind of life people have suffered in some socialistic "workers' paradise" like the Soviet Union, Third Reich, or Khmer Rouge.

[technatezin]

@Linguiphile Alright, please lend me about a thousand professional workers a hundred story office building and a factory and "I will" work really hard. LOL!

[Linguiphile]

I'm by no means wealthy, but I do know enough of history to realized where all this class warfare is leading our nation. Is your solution to throw the rich into gulags and steal their wealth, ostensibly "for the people"?

[TopShelfization]

slowly we will figure this out, cause what happens in america will have to happen everywhere else.

[Ultimusatlantean]

I love how I found this the day of by curiosity.

[MrEliHill]

Keep up the facts

[DoYouFeelLucky]

The Guardian! Thank you! Absolute respect for speaking facts and the truth! :)

[TheTrieye]

makesure to checkout my 12/21/12 videos

[Domanihatu]

All I can say is WOW. This is indeed the saddest time ever recorded in American history.

[therevepigee]

99.99 .. I've said it from the start. it would get rid of some of the "class war" BS to say it that way..

[reasontorecord]

1. End the Fed.

2. Free Energy for the World.

3. Resource based Economy.

4. Human Evolution.

[beagobeago76]

@reasontorecord amen brother

[MikeRat77]

@reasontorecord Fuckin' smart.

[tassgurl0909]

@reasontorecord  In other words, Vote For RON PAUL!!!! :P

[Maca2199]

@zeeboid Believing in it doesn't mean that they think all it's possible applications are good or that it should applied to everything. Often it's about a few individuals making gains at the expense of everyone else, which a society should obviously try to prevent. Therefore, it's not ironic.

[fbibarbie]

@reasontorecord What do you mean by end the Fed X.x... he doesent mean the federal government does he... 0.o

[hayden50]

@reasontorecord hahaha, a zeitard

[IITSChiefII]

The problem is the corrupt banking system, the federal reserve, the buying of politicians. Ceo's of banks drive their bank into the ground through bad banking practices at the same time giving themselves billions in bonuses and getting the government to bail them out its absurd. But I'm Canadian I have free healthcare our economy is strong and free of those corruptions. If I was American I would be raging. rooting for ur occupy movement and Ron Paul I wish to see America a great country agian

[IITSChiefII]

I have nothing against rich people I love bill gates he's actually part of the 99% he dropped out of school and invented something that millions of people use something that progressed mankind and on top of that he actually gives ALOT of money away he's donated 40billion to charity. He's only leaving 10million to his kids, leaving the remaining 60 billion to charity when he passes. That's a great person maybe not in his kids point of view lol.

[reasontorecord]

@IITSChiefII he should be investing that 60 billion to help save the world. Why leave it to someone else to decide. He's a smart guy he could revolutionize the energy industry, if he wanted to. He could help pioneer the shift to free energy. With the new nano carbon discovery it's not that far off.

[Valllick]

the 1 % are the families AKA merovingians that own the FED or the freemasons that are under there will who have control of your local police/ fire 999 left hand path freemasonry owns your police. These families or the fed prints our money and profit from the work of every American. America has a foreign currency that says America on it

[dynamicmaxwell120]

This video is right on, however the real problem is the corruption of government by corporations and vice-versa. The wealth disparity we have today mirrors what we had in 1929 right before the great depression. The republic doesn't represent the people anymore.

[GCCmember]

Compared on a global scale, our 99% are the 1%. There's probably a billion people that would think they hit the jackpot if they were able to rummage through our poor people's garbage.

[Otzmatron]

Complete dog shit.

131 billion dollars?

That covers less than 1% of America's national debt.

It's not the rich it's the Federal Reserve. It's fractional reserve banking. It's the bailouts. It is the benefits they get via the government. It's corruption.

WAKE UP.

[KhmerD0g]

@Otzmatron

right on

[leftfieldmuzik]

@Otzmatron it said budget shortfall of every STATE in the U.S. >> not the national debt. Kind of a difference.

[Otzmatron]

@leftfieldmuzik No, billionaire revenue 131 billion dollars. If they were referencing it with regards to state deficit it's even more ludicrous as the income tax is done on a federal level and is not up to the states (which is unconstitutional). Taxing and spending does not work, abolish the Fed, end corruption and if you don't like BIll Gates, don't use Windows. It's that simple.

[leftfieldmuzik]

@Otzmatron your a little confused as far as the difference between a state budget shortfall..and a national deficit. They are 2 totally different things.