Folks, once upon a time Mao said that, "A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another". Got it?!
@MisterSunson Couldn't Agree More!!!!! "A Revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another." - MAO
WOW.....ALL THAT MONEY AND JANIES DAD IS AN IDIOT.......NOT A SPIT OF DESIRE TO HELP ANY CAUSE???? MAYBE WHEN HIS DAD DIES AND HE HAS TONS OF MONEY JAMIE WILL HELP WITH SOLUTIONS. UNTIL HIS FOLKS DIE JAMIE WILL APPLY SOME OF THE SOLUTIONS. ONE TO START WITH WOULD TO STOP ALL THEIR COMPANIES FORM ANIMALS TESTING AND ANIMAL BY-PRODUCTS IN THEIR PRODUCTS.......
Here's a solution: less power to the rich and more power to average person. We know that that the richer gain more political power as their wealth grows. There's nothing wrong with wealth, but the mega-rich have the time and resources to get what they want politically.
I'm 63 and learned about how the system is rigged for the rich 40+ yrs ago in the antiwar movement. I started paying taxes at 16. Worked myself through college. I was a carpenter for 20+ yrs. I was also a high school teacher. I've been a advocate of democratic socialism all my adult life. The ruling-class doesn't give a damn. The politicians are their whores. We're headed for complete collapse. I'm on survival mode, on the island of Kauai. WORKERS UNITE!
We are at war here in the USA...It was started by the top 1% and they are winning at the expense of the poor and middle class. The only hope we have is to organize by neighborhoods and start with petitions and get neighborhood groups together. Talk about what is going on with the ultra wealthy CEO's and get your neighbors involved...even if it's once a month...not a R/D thing..It is the wealthy 1% against the rest of us. ...but it can be undone....if we work at it!
Hey Jamie, I hope you understand what a treasure your mom is and appreciate her character. Your dad may have sold his soul, and that's a deep wound. Spend a little less time poking the wound and a little more time helping him back to himself. He's a good guy and seems to want to go there. It's never too late to regain your soul.
...they'll bring down any kind of competition So if you have a special talent or skill and you have the time to develop it you'll be ok if not your owned and they'll make sure you get paid to survive but never progress when you work for them they don't care for the people just their interests. The American nightmare!
...now you know why the people in the white house can't help 'cause their owned by big corporations and banks so they can get richer and richer and the only opportunity they give to some in USA is slave labor and I say some in USA becouse the real labor comes from foreign people that works for almost nothing...
The problem here is not charity or the rich sharing with the poor. The problem here is when the rich create a monopoly to control everything even the goverment and it's taxation when the poor always going to paid a higher tax than the rich while the rich create dinastys and invest in wars and fear to screw the other %99 of the population...
I wonder if the common man really truly appreciates the profound wreckage that is the Bush presidency. we wasted 10 years, 8 for his presidency and 2 for the recession and probably another 5 for recovery from recession, so a total of 15 years wasted just to get back to where we were before Bush. I used to make fun of redneck, like most liberals, but I now see, we shouldn't make fun of rednecks, we need to educate them, because they'll keep voting in Jesus loving hypocrits called the GOP.
@dalecampbl9 You are right but the problem of the wealth gap in recent years goes back farther than Bush. Actually presidents Roosevelt,Kennedy,Johnson and Carter were the most recent leaders to push for helping the poor. Most other times the GOP fought against any transfer of aid to poor or working poor.And the blame also falls on the citizens who have live with blinders on and accepted debt as a way to lead the good life.That thinking made the elite even wealthier. Hopeless ignorance. :(
the "poor" don't need handouts...they need opportunities and that's what America used to be about. Affordable college, affordable healthcare, affordable necessities...but now the affordable essentials are hella expensive and it keeps people down...whatever 25 cent raises they get per hours gets eaten up by a 25% increase in health care, or a 25% increase in public tuition....it's ridiculous and disgusting.
@dalecampbl9 The cost of the once free universities in Britain was tripled (about $5K to 15K) in a single vote about 2 mos ago....same thing happening in California State Uni's but not at that sonic speed. Next trick in the US will be a VAT ( another sales tax) but they will give it another name and do it bit by bit.....I have seen the future brother and it is....poverty... :(
it's dumbasses in America who don't really understand that the CONSTITUTION gives the PEOPLE a gov't to REGULATE big business. That's why clauses in the Constitution are HELLA broad...NOT NARROW..narrow my fucken ass. BROAD and VAGUE which just makes BROAD EVEN BROADER. A govt in USA is for the people and by the people...when GOP or Glen Beck or Rush Limbaugh persuades middle class to FEAR gov't, it's like persuading me to FEAR myself, which is illogical...they're paid by rich who fear poor.
@dalecampbl9 They don't WANT to understand it, These are people who have no faith or vision or sense of nationhood. The ones who are really rich ( I mean 10 mil is chump change) I can understand being a follower of the GOP. But 97% of Americans are not. Why do the GOP neo cons get in? you said it right - fear and selfishness and the lust for more toys.I have seen many of these voters go down in GOP regimes.Because as big as anyone is , there are many sharks in the water bigger than them.
but the voters fear because they are ignorant...it's so sad....i just want to spoon feed people some truth man....I hate to stand by and watch the quality of life be destroyed by a few CEOs of Goldman Sachs and CitiBank
@dalecampbl9 Its not a few CEO's and not just the financial sector. Defense, Medical,Chemical,Media etc....it is systemic oligarchy buying house and senate influence.There are many people who try to break it down,Nader,Reich,Chomsky, Rep.Sanders(Vermont).....they all have a following but almost none from the super wealthy. I guess the so- called (shrinking) middle class wants to ape the rich...you see it when hardworking people buy $50 K autos and expensive homes.They are suffering now.
and when the PEOPLE finally vote in a president to give us affordable health care. ..guess what? GOP challenges it as unconstitutional. BUt lying about IRaq and wasting billions is perfectly constitutional. FUCK the CONSERVATIVES
@dalecampbl9 Its seems very simple,doesn't it ? Then why don't more people get it, I wonder....too busy working 2 jobs?....Stoned or sick ? In and out of various types of courts ? Just no time to think ? Bernie Sanders, Ralph Nader,Robert Reich...RTNews...a lotta info about this.....maybe they get it just give up..so we turning into India or Mexico or worse some day..
Jobs are created by demand...the vicious cycle of allowing the ultra rich to be come even ultra richer means that the only people with disposable income are the rich...so what jobs are they going to create? Limo drivers? Mansion builders? Yacht Makers? Mansion Painters? Butlers? How many of those do the rich need anyways? In the last 30 years all taxes have been lowered and free trade allows rich to invest in China's/India's slave labor market...so THEY HAVE NO INCENTIVE to create jobs!!!!
Jobs are created by demand...the vicious cycle of allowing the ultra rich to be come even ultra richer means that the only people with disposable income are the rich...so what jobs are they going to create? Limo drivers? Mansion builders? Yacht Makers? Mansion Painters? Butlers? How many of those do the rich need anyways? In the last 30 years all taxes have been lowered and free trade allows rich to invest in China's/India's slave labor market...so THEY HAVE NO INCENTIVE to create jobs!!!!
To finish what I said below, if the rich are faced with two choices, either invest that money back into business or get taxed (through income, estate, investment at exorbitant rates, say over 50%..) then chances are, they might (being as smart and entrepreneurial as they are) might invest them to create jobs...but look at what GOP did...they lowered income taxes ALOT under Reagan/Bush/Bush2, wants to abolish estate tax, investment taxes...and allow cheap jobs in China..so where the INCENTIVE?!
Think about it this way, no matter how rich you are, rich people still need an incentive to create jobs right? That's common sense. If I all of a sudden received a 1 billion dollar inheritance, am I going to go through the headache of creating jobs? or am I going to take a 40 years vacation? Most likely, most will take 40 year vacations...aren't I fucken right? So, I honestly don't know why rich create jobs...but if given the choice of either losing a large chunk to takes or creating jobs..?
I watched this documentary today at college. Just another retarded Liberal propaganda vid.
Hey, dumbass liberals, you're right, the rich aren't paying their fair share in taxes. They're paying nearly two times as much as they should be paying. Why is it that the top 1% makes 22% of all income each year, but pay 40% in taxes?
The only people who aren't paying enough in taxes are the poor and middle class.
The bottom 50% make 60% of all income, yet pay nothing.
@moonphoenix1 Yeah, I know I'll never be rich. I'm just smarter than you for knowing not to bite the hand that's feeding me.
You libs are so delusional. I always get a good laugh just thinking about it. I mean, it's so funny that you think executives of major companies are there to provide jobs and help the nation. Yeah, keep living in your lala land, libs, until you grow up and find out all that the libs in academia taught you were all bs so you can continue voting for their pensions.
@SuckMyPhallus , you don''t even know the true definition of liberal. Liberal means to learn, to be taught what you don't know. People think they get a liberal education but they get barely a sliver if their lucky. Being anti-liberal is too be purposefully ignorant. Look it up in Websters if u doubt me. You've been brainwashed by TV& you have put your foot in your mouth. Still don't believe me? Watch the series "What You've Been Missing- Exposing the Noble Lie." It explains it in part 5 or 6.
@mondocrat That's the most idiotic thing I've ever heard. No doubt that something so stupid can only come from a Liberal.
What you're suggesting is like saying that a girl isn't a girl if she says she's a boy. It's like saying you have an IQ over 65, when we can clearly see that it's not. You're entitled to your own beliefs, but not your own facts.
It is scientifically proven that Liberals are clinically insane and congregate in the left side of the IQ spectrum.
jamie johnson is a moron who tries to portray the rich as the bad guys in society. why dont you take a good look at hong kong. before the british took over, they were all poor. now they have alot of rich in conjuction with alot of poor. ask yourself this question. would you rather live in hong kong before or after the british took over. society needs the rich just as the rich needs the poor. in the real world, we all cant be rich. thats just reality.
Fantastic conclusion: "If you’re always hiding from the problem you’re never going to find any solutions." How can rich people or politicians provide any solutions when they are scared to death of being poor? And why shouldn’t they be scared to death with the opinion they have of the poor.
I think this was a really good, well put together documentary. His dad makes me angry at times and that financial planner person, OMG- co-dependant , but Jamie has the patients of a saint -god bless him. I guess he knows his dad best. His first documented "Born Rich" is really interesting too. Keep up the good work! Milton Friedman needs to return his award!!!! what con.
we are all, the rich and the poor, are not morally mature to be truely human. At this point we are just trying to survive as just beings. And nothing more. Sometimes, our human moral consciousness awaken for a while and try to ask questions and try to find answers. Some are blessed to be able to live with honor and morals. Butmost are reduce to a nothingness...trap in a cycle..for all of us, rich and poor...we don't want change to be better human beings because it is more comfortable..
If someone has a lot of money, they have put much thought and work into getting it. Even if they stole it. It is logical that they have put the effort into getting the money from someone who could not protect it properly. Humans are also animals if you look at the way the animal kingdom works. The strongest, most resourceful and most brutal survive. It is the course of nature and there is no reason to try and change that. There is logic behind the way the world works.
just because it is logical does not mean it is rational. humans, unlike most other animals, have the capability to empathize. apparently not all possess it.. i can think of a million ways i would invest the money into my community if i had the amounts most of these guys have. it would be beneficial to me ultimately if people in my area have better education, parks, housing etc. - things proven to reduce crime and increase overall happiness within communities.
The filmmakers father seems blunted by a lifetime of total relaxation and freedom from any normal person's problems. I'm sure he is inherently intelligent, but how he speaks and moves, his energy level is like that of a person who just woke up from a nap.
I have a ton of respect for Jamie. Good to hear these facts from somebody who would benefit from hiding them. Wealthy people, as the country destabilizes, should study French Revolution. America recognizes no monarchy. It is in our national character to spill the blood of elitists who feed off the masses, horde opportunity and who rob from the public. When vengence comes, I hope the masses remember that Jamie was willing stand up for us!
Well done and gutsy job by Jamie Johnson. I'm so glad he got his dad to open up a bit about it. The rich wouldn't be so reluctant to speak about their money and how many achieved it if it weren't so blatantly unfair to the majority and how the poor contributed to their large bank accounts without much to show for it in the end. This is a growing trend that will only get worse.
Bloody Aidders! Next time I stick a cotton-bud in my ear, and stare back at the wax I have just removed, it will remind me of Johnson family and the other 1% parasitical scumbags living off US! The son Jamie at least has a conscience and perhaps will be giving a big chunk of his inheritance away to the poor, you can chuck a few quid this way!!!!
Capitalism is great and the best alternative to the others form of social organization. Commerce is the foundation of human exchange and development! Corporatism, nepostism, corruption, fascism, special privilege, colonialism and economic imperialism are the main problem. Unfortunately, America has for decades detached itself from it original capitalistic roots and become an imperialistic Nation with an army of corporation supported by a powerful military structure. That's the sad story!
After watching both films, I come to this conclusion: it is not wrong to want to be rich as long as you are doing it for the right reasons and not get too greedy. I think Bill Gates is a great example for that. Social gap is always going to be there because that is just how our world naturally is but trying to make the gap smaller is a good thing. Though we have to keep in mind that how our world progress is driven by the exact selfish motivations.
Yes! I 100% agree. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be wealthy. The main reason why many in the public "hate" the rich is because of jealousy. They wish they had the money and the lifestyle. Personally, I have always admired the rich and Wall St. and I want to be apart of it. I too want to become (and will become) wealthy. The rich in the world actually give millions and billions a year to charity. There are some that are greedy, but a lot are not. They are just living the American Dream!
I would like to underline that many charities are run by the same rich people so they can fiddle the accounts. It looks like they are trying to help but that is a big bullshit. Charities and minimal salaries are there so the poor will never go on the street.
Firstly, if Johnson feels so strongly on this issue why does he not just give up all of his inheritance to charity and live like a normal person.
Secondly, the proportion of the top one percent of the population who have inherited their wealth is actually quite small. There are clearly people who don't "deserve" all their wealth but there are people who do and also paid enormous sums in tax.
Thirdly, this section of society donates the most as a percentage of their income to charity - although I suspect those who inherit money do less of this based on the intelligence they've shown in this film.
Finally, no economic system can do away with ALL inequality and our current structure is the best feasibly possible for the greatest number of people from economic point of view.
Thank you for your two films J. Johnson! Very well done! I disagree w/what some people wrote. Assuming that the wealthy don't have a social conscious. What about Brooke Astor & the Astor Foundation that helped many many people? I also think it's rather odd that people think that only the wealthy have a "debt to the world". Wether you have money or not, we all have a debt to the world. Give back to the world in whatever means you can. Thank you again J J!
@imafknninja Friedman is right in what he says. He fails to mention why bad has happened. It's due to social security, pension, government favoritism, lack of competition, global military empire, global reserve currency, endless number of mouches like Jamie refuses to be. The problem is not the rich or the Friedman. The problem is mouching and imperialism that have occured and wealth has dissipated inside it. Read and watch Ayn Rand if you want to understand.
Amazing documentary. It shows that, while there are wealthy people who are aware of their debt to the world that they accrued their power in and the people in it... they're few and far between, largely from fear and mutated self-preservation.
I feel bad for Nicole Buffett, I feel bad for James Johnson having the spirit kicked out of him, and I'm very happy people like Jamie still exist to question the nature of our socioeconomic condition, even when the status quo favors them.
@a1sspiked They exist in a world where they were enabled to succeed, and as wealthy people they've succeeded in life more than those in the middle or lower classes. Therefore, in my opinion, they should feel some sense of moral obligation to give back a pittance of their wealth to others, possibly by giving help to those less fortunate (or in extremely rare cases less skilled) than them.
Now you can call me a socialist/communist and bitch about going Galt or something else equally stupid.
@GasparLewis I would call you neither, but you dont know how much they donate, or to who or what. Why should the wealthy be brow-beaten into giving their money(hard earned or not) to anyone. Its not their responsibility to take care of the uneducated, or lazy, or anyone else.
I come away from this seeing the super wealthy as assholes bent on perpetuating a scam to repress the rights of the billions so they can eat lotus flowers forever. His fateer's non-catharsis is telling - he has no solution except not to have a french revolution given his position. Clearly the spiritual poverty of the uber-wealthy is total, and that the richest americans by spirit are the working classes.
I just finished this documentary, and although Jamie comes off a little naive and even a little reactionary without providing much of his own input, I guess that's because he's young. He was 27 when he made this so I can understand, but I still would have liked to see more insight into why he thinks it is like this, and what he thinks we should do. But at the same time I can appreciate a documentary that simply frames the issue as it stands.
Excellent! The responsibility of how to better the world lays heavy on the rich, but at the same time what an opportunity! I'd rather not put more responsibility on the government by giving them more money but would prefer the private sector becoming creative on how to do good. In the end rich or not rich makes no difference, ethical and non ethical decisions do. It is just that the decisions of the rich have much bigger impact both ways. Maybe that is why they are so fearful.
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I disagree. Jamie Johnson is a whiny little bitch. If the top 1% didn't hoard all of the money and the wealth was instead distributed to the middle class and poor, enormous hyperinflation would occur and the entire world would be up shit creek.
I disagree sort of. First Jamie Johnson is not whining he is pointing out facts. Second "Hyperinflation" ehh not likely. BUT if you distributed the wealth evenly to everyone. The wealthy will eventually be back to there current state of wealth in no time because they understand the fundamentals of remaining rich.
As a person without alot of money, I cant stop thinking about all the things I could do to improve the standard of living if i only had the money!
grimywise 3 months ago
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Folks, once upon a time Mao said that, "A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another". Got it?!
MisterSunson 4 months ago
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@MisterSunson Couldn't Agree More!!!!! "A Revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another." - MAO
JaneSanFrancisco 4 months ago
Well this hidden flagship movie of the occupy movement. Incredible it only has 17k views.... I'm going to change that.
irreverentjim 5 months ago
amazing film jamie! thanks for making it
BikeICT 5 months ago
WOW.....ALL THAT MONEY AND JANIES DAD IS AN IDIOT.......NOT A SPIT OF DESIRE TO HELP ANY CAUSE???? MAYBE WHEN HIS DAD DIES AND HE HAS TONS OF MONEY JAMIE WILL HELP WITH SOLUTIONS. UNTIL HIS FOLKS DIE JAMIE WILL APPLY SOME OF THE SOLUTIONS. ONE TO START WITH WOULD TO STOP ALL THEIR COMPANIES FORM ANIMALS TESTING AND ANIMAL BY-PRODUCTS IN THEIR PRODUCTS.......
GOLDENFLYWARRIOR 5 months ago
I think Jamie's mom is older than Jamie's dad, Mr. Johnson.
IamFreeRu 6 months ago
Awesome movie! Thanks to Jamie for making it!
cakhairia 6 months ago
Here's a solution: less power to the rich and more power to average person. We know that that the richer gain more political power as their wealth grows. There's nothing wrong with wealth, but the mega-rich have the time and resources to get what they want politically.
dontchastop 6 months ago
I'm 63 and learned about how the system is rigged for the rich 40+ yrs ago in the antiwar movement. I started paying taxes at 16. Worked myself through college. I was a carpenter for 20+ yrs. I was also a high school teacher. I've been a advocate of democratic socialism all my adult life. The ruling-class doesn't give a damn. The politicians are their whores. We're headed for complete collapse. I'm on survival mode, on the island of Kauai. WORKERS UNITE!
kauaiphil 9 months ago 3
Will be interesting to see what Jamie Johnson does with his inheritance. Will he become like his dad, or will he keep his passions and values?
runningonice1 9 months ago
Well done James, thankyou very much.
taxituer46 11 months ago
We are at war here in the USA...It was started by the top 1% and they are winning at the expense of the poor and middle class. The only hope we have is to organize by neighborhoods and start with petitions and get neighborhood groups together. Talk about what is going on with the ultra wealthy CEO's and get your neighbors involved...even if it's once a month...not a R/D thing..It is the wealthy 1% against the rest of us. ...but it can be undone....if we work at it!
16Sammie 11 months ago
Hey Jamie, I hope you understand what a treasure your mom is and appreciate her character. Your dad may have sold his soul, and that's a deep wound. Spend a little less time poking the wound and a little more time helping him back to himself. He's a good guy and seems to want to go there. It's never too late to regain your soul.
tmok64 11 months ago
...they'll bring down any kind of competition So if you have a special talent or skill and you have the time to develop it you'll be ok if not your owned and they'll make sure you get paid to survive but never progress when you work for them they don't care for the people just their interests. The American nightmare!
Jzone527 11 months ago
...now you know why the people in the white house can't help 'cause their owned by big corporations and banks so they can get richer and richer and the only opportunity they give to some in USA is slave labor and I say some in USA becouse the real labor comes from foreign people that works for almost nothing...
Jzone527 11 months ago
@Jzone527 The data is against ALL your hollow assertions.
NoProbaloAmigo 11 months ago
The problem here is not charity or the rich sharing with the poor. The problem here is when the rich create a monopoly to control everything even the goverment and it's taxation when the poor always going to paid a higher tax than the rich while the rich create dinastys and invest in wars and fear to screw the other %99 of the population...
Jzone527 11 months ago
Liberals, please go get rich and give your own money to charity.
Please, stop being so generous with assets you do not own.
athensathens 11 months ago
I think wealth hurts the wealthy as much as it hurts the poor.
thesparitan 1 year ago
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Jamie Johnson lacks the information for a respectable documentary. It is evident, herein.
WaitingOnThatWax 1 year ago
Jamie Johnson lacks the information for a respectable documentary. It is evident, herein.
WaitingOnThatWax 1 year ago
I wonder if the common man really truly appreciates the profound wreckage that is the Bush presidency. we wasted 10 years, 8 for his presidency and 2 for the recession and probably another 5 for recovery from recession, so a total of 15 years wasted just to get back to where we were before Bush. I used to make fun of redneck, like most liberals, but I now see, we shouldn't make fun of rednecks, we need to educate them, because they'll keep voting in Jesus loving hypocrits called the GOP.
dalecampbl9 1 year ago
@dalecampbl9 You are right but the problem of the wealth gap in recent years goes back farther than Bush. Actually presidents Roosevelt,Kennedy,Johnson and Carter were the most recent leaders to push for helping the poor. Most other times the GOP fought against any transfer of aid to poor or working poor.And the blame also falls on the citizens who have live with blinders on and accepted debt as a way to lead the good life.That thinking made the elite even wealthier. Hopeless ignorance. :(
justcallmeassinine 1 year ago
the "poor" don't need handouts...they need opportunities and that's what America used to be about. Affordable college, affordable healthcare, affordable necessities...but now the affordable essentials are hella expensive and it keeps people down...whatever 25 cent raises they get per hours gets eaten up by a 25% increase in health care, or a 25% increase in public tuition....it's ridiculous and disgusting.
dalecampbl9 1 year ago
@dalecampbl9 The cost of the once free universities in Britain was tripled (about $5K to 15K) in a single vote about 2 mos ago....same thing happening in California State Uni's but not at that sonic speed. Next trick in the US will be a VAT ( another sales tax) but they will give it another name and do it bit by bit.....I have seen the future brother and it is....poverty... :(
justcallmeassinine 1 year ago
it's dumbasses in America who don't really understand that the CONSTITUTION gives the PEOPLE a gov't to REGULATE big business. That's why clauses in the Constitution are HELLA broad...NOT NARROW..narrow my fucken ass. BROAD and VAGUE which just makes BROAD EVEN BROADER. A govt in USA is for the people and by the people...when GOP or Glen Beck or Rush Limbaugh persuades middle class to FEAR gov't, it's like persuading me to FEAR myself, which is illogical...they're paid by rich who fear poor.
dalecampbl9 1 year ago
@dalecampbl9 They don't WANT to understand it, These are people who have no faith or vision or sense of nationhood. The ones who are really rich ( I mean 10 mil is chump change) I can understand being a follower of the GOP. But 97% of Americans are not. Why do the GOP neo cons get in? you said it right - fear and selfishness and the lust for more toys.I have seen many of these voters go down in GOP regimes.Because as big as anyone is , there are many sharks in the water bigger than them.
justcallmeassinine 1 year ago
but the voters fear because they are ignorant...it's so sad....i just want to spoon feed people some truth man....I hate to stand by and watch the quality of life be destroyed by a few CEOs of Goldman Sachs and CitiBank
dalecampbl9 1 year ago
@dalecampbl9 Its not a few CEO's and not just the financial sector. Defense, Medical,Chemical,Media etc....it is systemic oligarchy buying house and senate influence.There are many people who try to break it down,Nader,Reich,Chomsky, Rep.Sanders(Vermont).....they all have a following but almost none from the super wealthy. I guess the so- called (shrinking) middle class wants to ape the rich...you see it when hardworking people buy $50 K autos and expensive homes.They are suffering now.
justcallmeassinine 1 year ago
and when the PEOPLE finally vote in a president to give us affordable health care. ..guess what? GOP challenges it as unconstitutional. BUt lying about IRaq and wasting billions is perfectly constitutional. FUCK the CONSERVATIVES
dalecampbl9 1 year ago
@dalecampbl9 Its seems very simple,doesn't it ? Then why don't more people get it, I wonder....too busy working 2 jobs?....Stoned or sick ? In and out of various types of courts ? Just no time to think ? Bernie Sanders, Ralph Nader,Robert Reich...RTNews...a lotta info about this.....maybe they get it just give up..so we turning into India or Mexico or worse some day..
justcallmeassinine 1 year ago
He hates talking about money because he is a little embarrassed
moneymonk33 1 year ago
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Jobs are created by demand...the vicious cycle of allowing the ultra rich to be come even ultra richer means that the only people with disposable income are the rich...so what jobs are they going to create? Limo drivers? Mansion builders? Yacht Makers? Mansion Painters? Butlers? How many of those do the rich need anyways? In the last 30 years all taxes have been lowered and free trade allows rich to invest in China's/India's slave labor market...so THEY HAVE NO INCENTIVE to create jobs!!!!
dalecampbl5 1 year ago
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Jobs are created by demand...the vicious cycle of allowing the ultra rich to be come even ultra richer means that the only people with disposable income are the rich...so what jobs are they going to create? Limo drivers? Mansion builders? Yacht Makers? Mansion Painters? Butlers? How many of those do the rich need anyways? In the last 30 years all taxes have been lowered and free trade allows rich to invest in China's/India's slave labor market...so THEY HAVE NO INCENTIVE to create jobs!!!!
dalecampbl5 1 year ago
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To finish what I said below, if the rich are faced with two choices, either invest that money back into business or get taxed (through income, estate, investment at exorbitant rates, say over 50%..) then chances are, they might (being as smart and entrepreneurial as they are) might invest them to create jobs...but look at what GOP did...they lowered income taxes ALOT under Reagan/Bush/Bush2, wants to abolish estate tax, investment taxes...and allow cheap jobs in China..so where the INCENTIVE?!
dalecampbl5 1 year ago
Think about it this way, no matter how rich you are, rich people still need an incentive to create jobs right? That's common sense. If I all of a sudden received a 1 billion dollar inheritance, am I going to go through the headache of creating jobs? or am I going to take a 40 years vacation? Most likely, most will take 40 year vacations...aren't I fucken right? So, I honestly don't know why rich create jobs...but if given the choice of either losing a large chunk to takes or creating jobs..?
dalecampbl5 1 year ago
Really good job Jaime. I was friends with your sister a few years ago too. Sorry for your loss.
mondocrat 1 year ago
i'd vote for jamie.
lmsypj 1 year ago
I watched this documentary today at college. Just another retarded Liberal propaganda vid.
Hey, dumbass liberals, you're right, the rich aren't paying their fair share in taxes. They're paying nearly two times as much as they should be paying. Why is it that the top 1% makes 22% of all income each year, but pay 40% in taxes?
The only people who aren't paying enough in taxes are the poor and middle class.
The bottom 50% make 60% of all income, yet pay nothing.
SuckMyPhallus 1 year ago
@SuckMyPhallus
Hmmm, guess what you'll never be rich, ever. So stop day dreaming about it.
moonphoenix1 1 year ago
@moonphoenix1 Yeah, I know I'll never be rich. I'm just smarter than you for knowing not to bite the hand that's feeding me.
You libs are so delusional. I always get a good laugh just thinking about it. I mean, it's so funny that you think executives of major companies are there to provide jobs and help the nation. Yeah, keep living in your lala land, libs, until you grow up and find out all that the libs in academia taught you were all bs so you can continue voting for their pensions.
SuckMyPhallus 1 year ago
@SuckMyPhallus , you don''t even know the true definition of liberal. Liberal means to learn, to be taught what you don't know. People think they get a liberal education but they get barely a sliver if their lucky. Being anti-liberal is too be purposefully ignorant. Look it up in Websters if u doubt me. You've been brainwashed by TV& you have put your foot in your mouth. Still don't believe me? Watch the series "What You've Been Missing- Exposing the Noble Lie." It explains it in part 5 or 6.
mondocrat 1 year ago
@mondocrat That's the most idiotic thing I've ever heard. No doubt that something so stupid can only come from a Liberal.
What you're suggesting is like saying that a girl isn't a girl if she says she's a boy. It's like saying you have an IQ over 65, when we can clearly see that it's not. You're entitled to your own beliefs, but not your own facts.
It is scientifically proven that Liberals are clinically insane and congregate in the left side of the IQ spectrum.
SuckMyPhallus 1 year ago
@SuckMyPhallus
"It is scientifically proven that Liberals are clinically insane and congregate in the left side of the IQ spectrum."
Could you please:
a) Provide the documentation for said studies so I can look over them, and
b) translate the last bit into English? Particularly the brand of English which is comprised of sensical statements?
Thanks.
(a liberal)
magx01 1 year ago
jamie johnson is a moron who tries to portray the rich as the bad guys in society. why dont you take a good look at hong kong. before the british took over, they were all poor. now they have alot of rich in conjuction with alot of poor. ask yourself this question. would you rather live in hong kong before or after the british took over. society needs the rich just as the rich needs the poor. in the real world, we all cant be rich. thats just reality.
ccbeyond21 1 year ago
@ccbeyond21 Just another young Lib. He'll turn Conservative by the time he's 40.
SuckMyPhallus 1 year ago
Fantastic conclusion: "If you’re always hiding from the problem you’re never going to find any solutions." How can rich people or politicians provide any solutions when they are scared to death of being poor? And why shouldn’t they be scared to death with the opinion they have of the poor.
fsoiberg 1 year ago
Jamie's mom was like; When I met your dad he was a painter and a surfer. I don't know what the f--- happened to him.
celestialnubian 1 year ago
Your Mom is a sweetheart! Jamie : )
nambypamby34 1 year ago
I think this was a really good, well put together documentary. His dad makes me angry at times and that financial planner person, OMG- co-dependant , but Jamie has the patients of a saint -god bless him. I guess he knows his dad best. His first documented "Born Rich" is really interesting too. Keep up the good work! Milton Friedman needs to return his award!!!! what con.
Sunnybunny2006 1 year ago
we are all, the rich and the poor, are not morally mature to be truely human. At this point we are just trying to survive as just beings. And nothing more. Sometimes, our human moral consciousness awaken for a while and try to ask questions and try to find answers. Some are blessed to be able to live with honor and morals. Butmost are reduce to a nothingness...trap in a cycle..for all of us, rich and poor...we don't want change to be better human beings because it is more comfortable..
thalia88beachbabe 1 year ago
If someone has a lot of money, they have put much thought and work into getting it. Even if they stole it. It is logical that they have put the effort into getting the money from someone who could not protect it properly. Humans are also animals if you look at the way the animal kingdom works. The strongest, most resourceful and most brutal survive. It is the course of nature and there is no reason to try and change that. There is logic behind the way the world works.
account257666 1 year ago
just because it is logical does not mean it is rational. humans, unlike most other animals, have the capability to empathize. apparently not all possess it.. i can think of a million ways i would invest the money into my community if i had the amounts most of these guys have. it would be beneficial to me ultimately if people in my area have better education, parks, housing etc. - things proven to reduce crime and increase overall happiness within communities.
TheWatsonGreen 1 year ago
Thanks for the upload, interesting and thought provoking
MrNiceHk 2 years ago
The filmmakers father seems blunted by a lifetime of total relaxation and freedom from any normal person's problems. I'm sure he is inherently intelligent, but how he speaks and moves, his energy level is like that of a person who just woke up from a nap.
ethorii 2 years ago 2
I have a ton of respect for Jamie. Good to hear these facts from somebody who would benefit from hiding them. Wealthy people, as the country destabilizes, should study French Revolution. America recognizes no monarchy. It is in our national character to spill the blood of elitists who feed off the masses, horde opportunity and who rob from the public. When vengence comes, I hope the masses remember that Jamie was willing stand up for us!
RTMAVIANO 2 years ago
Great job jamie
WaqasKhan411 2 years ago 6
Well done and gutsy job by Jamie Johnson. I'm so glad he got his dad to open up a bit about it. The rich wouldn't be so reluctant to speak about their money and how many achieved it if it weren't so blatantly unfair to the majority and how the poor contributed to their large bank accounts without much to show for it in the end. This is a growing trend that will only get worse.
ambygirl1008 2 years ago 2
Interesting documentary. Thanks for the upload!
Prodigies 2 years ago 2
Bloody Aidders! Next time I stick a cotton-bud in my ear, and stare back at the wax I have just removed, it will remind me of Johnson family and the other 1% parasitical scumbags living off US! The son Jamie at least has a conscience and perhaps will be giving a big chunk of his inheritance away to the poor, you can chuck a few quid this way!!!!
aidders 2 years ago
Capitalism is great and the best alternative to the others form of social organization. Commerce is the foundation of human exchange and development! Corporatism, nepostism, corruption, fascism, special privilege, colonialism and economic imperialism are the main problem. Unfortunately, America has for decades detached itself from it original capitalistic roots and become an imperialistic Nation with an army of corporation supported by a powerful military structure. That's the sad story!
AFRIKTODAY 2 years ago
It's a step towards the right direction though , which is providing information ...so thank you for making this film...it's a very good film.
alikiboom 2 years ago
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ob777 2 years ago
After watching both films, I come to this conclusion: it is not wrong to want to be rich as long as you are doing it for the right reasons and not get too greedy. I think Bill Gates is a great example for that. Social gap is always going to be there because that is just how our world naturally is but trying to make the gap smaller is a good thing. Though we have to keep in mind that how our world progress is driven by the exact selfish motivations.
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google2com 2 years ago
Yes! I 100% agree. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be wealthy. The main reason why many in the public "hate" the rich is because of jealousy. They wish they had the money and the lifestyle. Personally, I have always admired the rich and Wall St. and I want to be apart of it. I too want to become (and will become) wealthy. The rich in the world actually give millions and billions a year to charity. There are some that are greedy, but a lot are not. They are just living the American Dream!
GreyMoose08 2 years ago
I would like to underline that many charities are run by the same rich people so they can fiddle the accounts. It looks like they are trying to help but that is a big bullshit. Charities and minimal salaries are there so the poor will never go on the street.
misiobear77 2 years ago
seeing how much the world has beaten the dad down is really depressing...
whiggles 2 years ago 6
Is there an Ayn Rand fanboy giving everyone thumbs down or something?
mikedubya 2 years ago
"Capitalism" will be remembered as a disgrace to the human world.
NoYouShutUpDad 2 years ago
Do ALL rich people talk in such vague bullshit language as this??
Maybe it's just that his dad is really drunk all the fucking time..
tinkafoo 2 years ago
Firstly, if Johnson feels so strongly on this issue why does he not just give up all of his inheritance to charity and live like a normal person.
Secondly, the proportion of the top one percent of the population who have inherited their wealth is actually quite small. There are clearly people who don't "deserve" all their wealth but there are people who do and also paid enormous sums in tax.
coldmarine 2 years ago
Thirdly, this section of society donates the most as a percentage of their income to charity - although I suspect those who inherit money do less of this based on the intelligence they've shown in this film.
Finally, no economic system can do away with ALL inequality and our current structure is the best feasibly possible for the greatest number of people from economic point of view.
coldmarine 2 years ago
I agree when you say "current structure".
tw1704 2 years ago
Is jamie johnson a robot?
phinks40 2 years ago
this movie is the longest "fuck you dad" in television history, and based on what his dad says in this final interview he TOTALLY deserved it
georgezimmer 2 years ago 9
kill the rich
kryptic1 2 years ago
Thank you for your two films J. Johnson! Very well done! I disagree w/what some people wrote. Assuming that the wealthy don't have a social conscious. What about Brooke Astor & the Astor Foundation that helped many many people? I also think it's rather odd that people think that only the wealthy have a "debt to the world". Wether you have money or not, we all have a debt to the world. Give back to the world in whatever means you can. Thank you again J J!
vixie007 2 years ago
Fuck Milton Friedman
imafknninja 2 years ago 35
@imafknninja Friedman is right in what he says. He fails to mention why bad has happened. It's due to social security, pension, government favoritism, lack of competition, global military empire, global reserve currency, endless number of mouches like Jamie refuses to be. The problem is not the rich or the Friedman. The problem is mouching and imperialism that have occured and wealth has dissipated inside it. Read and watch Ayn Rand if you want to understand.
drusha1 1 year ago
Amazing documentary. It shows that, while there are wealthy people who are aware of their debt to the world that they accrued their power in and the people in it... they're few and far between, largely from fear and mutated self-preservation.
I feel bad for Nicole Buffett, I feel bad for James Johnson having the spirit kicked out of him, and I'm very happy people like Jamie still exist to question the nature of our socioeconomic condition, even when the status quo favors them.
GasparLewis 2 years ago 31
@GasparLewis - Im curious as to what "debt" you believe is owed by wealthy people? and is this "debt" thats owed, only owed by the wealthy?
a1sspiked 1 year ago
@a1sspiked They exist in a world where they were enabled to succeed, and as wealthy people they've succeeded in life more than those in the middle or lower classes. Therefore, in my opinion, they should feel some sense of moral obligation to give back a pittance of their wealth to others, possibly by giving help to those less fortunate (or in extremely rare cases less skilled) than them.
Now you can call me a socialist/communist and bitch about going Galt or something else equally stupid.
GasparLewis 1 year ago
@GasparLewis I would call you neither, but you dont know how much they donate, or to who or what. Why should the wealthy be brow-beaten into giving their money(hard earned or not) to anyone. Its not their responsibility to take care of the uneducated, or lazy, or anyone else.
a1sspiked 1 year ago
@a1sspiked (Stolen, Extorted, hard earned or not)you mean.
tw1704 1 year ago
world may be beyond whts possible
wht a line
wajahatalvi2003 2 years ago
I come away from this seeing the super wealthy as assholes bent on perpetuating a scam to repress the rights of the billions so they can eat lotus flowers forever. His fateer's non-catharsis is telling - he has no solution except not to have a french revolution given his position. Clearly the spiritual poverty of the uber-wealthy is total, and that the richest americans by spirit are the working classes.
cheekieweekie 2 years ago 2
I just finished this documentary, and although Jamie comes off a little naive and even a little reactionary without providing much of his own input, I guess that's because he's young. He was 27 when he made this so I can understand, but I still would have liked to see more insight into why he thinks it is like this, and what he thinks we should do. But at the same time I can appreciate a documentary that simply frames the issue as it stands.
jimmymoon 2 years ago
Most Def. His father looks like a cool guy to, there relationship is pretty funny.
metovex 2 years ago 5
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Rise up rich people! Fuck the poor.
projectid4 2 years ago
they already rose up you idiot, thats the whole problem
jimmymoon 2 years ago 3
Excellent! The responsibility of how to better the world lays heavy on the rich, but at the same time what an opportunity! I'd rather not put more responsibility on the government by giving them more money but would prefer the private sector becoming creative on how to do good. In the end rich or not rich makes no difference, ethical and non ethical decisions do. It is just that the decisions of the rich have much bigger impact both ways. Maybe that is why they are so fearful.
pruebau 2 years ago
well said
fatcaravan 2 years ago
Nice. Shot from all the right angles (figuratively, even!).
It's only excess if you don't know how to use it all, and it's only excessive if you think you have to use it all on you. --Me--
BuyYourselfABookOr3 2 years ago
Great docu!
Hazzard0 2 years ago
Excellent! I would like to speak with Jamie Johnson one day. He seems down to earth, possibly a good friend.
metovex 2 years ago
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I disagree. Jamie Johnson is a whiny little bitch. If the top 1% didn't hoard all of the money and the wealth was instead distributed to the middle class and poor, enormous hyperinflation would occur and the entire world would be up shit creek.
projectid4 2 years ago
I disagree sort of. First Jamie Johnson is not whining he is pointing out facts. Second "Hyperinflation" ehh not likely. BUT if you distributed the wealth evenly to everyone. The wealthy will eventually be back to there current state of wealth in no time because they understand the fundamentals of remaining rich.
metovex 2 years ago 2
maybe you should read up on what hyperinflation means before using it in a sentence.
jjws 2 years ago