"500 million dollars, which is half a billion dollars, which is a lot of money" - do they think their viewers are complete idiots? "31 billion dollars, this is so much money you cannot think of it" - they surely think of their viewers as of complete idiots. The episode @ 16:30 - 17:30 was totally moronic. Documentary directors, beware: do not treat your viewers as 6-month old babies.
@yellowkrux I am not talking about CGI, I am talking about explaining 500 million in terms of one half of a billion, or explaining 31 billion in terms of the physical bill size. This is stupid and took a whole minute of running time. This is how an important message can be ruined. I don't want to be considered an idiot who cannot count. I turned this video off at this point. This should be a lesson to documentary directors who want to preach - do not treat your viewers as complete idiots.
Do you realize that the GDP in 1940 was less than a 100 billion dollars? Today we spent nearly twice that just bailing out AIG.
Back then you had families living on a 100, 125, 150 dollars a month vs. today a family can spend a hundred dollars just going out to a nice restaurant.
So YES back then it would have been hard for people to imagine 31 billion dollars.
@oolong2 This is how it should have been explained, in terms of average salaries and GDP, not in terms of how long the line made of dollar bills would be. It would take less screen time and would be more respectful to a viewer. How is that hard for you to understand?
It's called an illustration... No different than showing a cartoon pie.
You act like they took up half the documentary with this illustration when it was only a couple minutes.
There are a lot of things that people did in movie, TV, and radio that we would regard as silly today.
It just sounds like you're trying to impose your current culture, mindset and thought process to judge the communication effectiveness of 60 year old video which is rather silly and pointless.
Great Video!!! I think now more than ever this video needs to be seen by as many people as possible. Unfortunately many people instead of feeling the urge of becoming active in grassroots organizations get really nihilistic and start to feel despair. Ideology has a lot to do with our current predicament. Institutions such as the media, as well as educational outlets prevent us from acknowledging the predicament that we're in under the hegemony of banking and corporate rule. We must all unite!!
This film should remind the American people what they lost during the McCarthy witch-hunts, when the unions were effectively purged and those workers with a will to fight were driven underground. Notice that no union organization has the balls today to say the things their counterparts said almost sixty years ago, even though the problems are far, far larger now. It will take a lot of work to change this.
@blackiron60 I guess if mcCarthy was able to do what he did, there was already many people willing to accept the communism eradication: existence was already a lot tougher for unions than in most european countries and strikes repression as well. So I'm guessing communism was never meant to be in such a religious country as the US. But if I'm wrong correct me I can only guess since I'm not an expert in US history...
@sinekonata Religion wasn't the reason why McCarthyism took off, the whole red-baiting campaign was based on propaganda and scare tactics. Communists and socialists were a driving force behind the union victories in the 1930s and 40s and Cold War-era paranoia was exploited and aggravated so that powerful interests could eliminate these groups. The union movement in the US was actually very strong and that's why the elites conspired and manipulated to take it down.
I know that but in europe, communism and socialism got to run a lot longer and stronger although the communist "threat" was a lot closer: only western europe was still capitalist. So if it's not because of people's state of mind divergences, what was that huge difference about? The only other reason I can think of is that the corporations in US were a lot stronger than in europe and middle class a lot wealthier.
When this video was made, you'll notice in the pie chart that banking assets were less than 10 percent of GDP and the remainder were represented by producers of actual, tangible products. About 15 years ago, bank assets represented about 17 percent of GDP and today the assets of the six largest banks in the United States today total 63 percent of GDP. Banks do not actually produce anything but simply trade in capital.
If this is the world we have with this crooks running the show, imagine what kind of world we could have if this crooks are put down... instant paradise!
@Bellybusterr It is actually, but the problem is when you put one crook down, another one appear somewhere else... we need spiritual enlightment.... otherwise we are bound to repeat the same bullshit.
There is another aspect in this as it is that at turning math and physics is so much reliable with its formulas like the "Surface feet per minute" , that one can theoretically summ the exact outcome of each item. In wartimes production is optimized and once new results of new tools and cooling are in, there is now way back. I`d say that it is an exact example of norming for all other mechanics, and mathing with it means taking out the whip...sort of...
12:40 grand jury, in 1942, slapped General Eclectic with a criminal indictment charging they: unlawfully, willfully and feloniously conspire, combined, confederate and agree together to defraud the united states by making collusive, fraudulent, identical and noncompetitive bids at unreasonably high prices. . . but that's not all. In spite of war these companies operated internationally through subsidiaries, stock participation and cartel agreements with various other companies. Sound familiar?
THE USA STARTED FIGHTING BECAUSE HITLER STARTED PRINTING HIS OWN MONEY AND THE BANKS DIDNT LIKE THAT!!!!! READ THE REAL STORY BEHIND WW2, EVERY BIG US CORPORATION FUNDED HITLER BECAUSE HITLER HATED COMMUNISM AND CORPORATIONS HATE UNIONS AND COMMUNISM AND THATS GOOD FOR CAPITALISM AND HITLER WAS THE MAN TO PUT AN END TO COMMUNISM IN THE EAST, BUT AS SOON AS HE STARTED TO PRINT MONEY OOOHHH NO WE MUST PUT AN END TO IT NOW!
@solimiansky Oligarchs don't hate Communism. Some helped Lenin overthrow Alexander Kerensky (not the abdicated Tsar) who wanted to make Russia a Constitutional Republic like the United States. And the Soviets were dependent on Western technological aid all the way through the Vietnam War. See Dr. Antony C. Sutton's Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development, and National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union.
@pathocrat You are also way off about Hitler. He took over the Reichsbank in 1939 and printed Reichsmark (not treasury notes), so many that by 1948 it was replaced by the Deutschemark at an exchange rate of 10:1.
@pathocrat oligarchs don't care what "ism" they're asked to do business with-- communism, socialism, libertarianism, capitalism, corporatism, etc-- because when one controls all the resources and money, one controls everything. Including governments, politician/flunkies and citizen/slaves.
@pathocrat Kerensky if I'm correct did not want to make Russia a constitutional republic and that was the aim of the Green army [Kerensky} being white, who were Libertarians See Voline from Anthony C Sutton Wall Street And The Boshevik Revolution
the military industrial complex, or nwo is not that new at all its a son of imperialisim
its funny how so many people call the nwo a commie organisation when tis really a economic freemarket run by left over colonials and nazis!
preacain 1 year ago
they were feeding us that security bullshit back then too huh?
marpoq 1 year ago
Man I get chills watching this. 65 years goes by and nothing has changed.
bossmarion 1 year ago 2
this is good thanx
green95gt 1 year ago
"500 million dollars, which is half a billion dollars, which is a lot of money" - do they think their viewers are complete idiots? "31 billion dollars, this is so much money you cannot think of it" - they surely think of their viewers as of complete idiots. The episode @ 16:30 - 17:30 was totally moronic. Documentary directors, beware: do not treat your viewers as 6-month old babies.
LeadHammer 1 year ago
@LeadHammer This is 64 years old, they couldn't use fancy CGI so they used lazy humor. People are idots, remember that.
yellowkrux 1 year ago
@yellowkrux I am not talking about CGI, I am talking about explaining 500 million in terms of one half of a billion, or explaining 31 billion in terms of the physical bill size. This is stupid and took a whole minute of running time. This is how an important message can be ruined. I don't want to be considered an idiot who cannot count. I turned this video off at this point. This should be a lesson to documentary directors who want to preach - do not treat your viewers as complete idiots.
LeadHammer 1 year ago
@LeadHammer
Have you never heard of inflation?
Do you realize that the GDP in 1940 was less than a 100 billion dollars? Today we spent nearly twice that just bailing out AIG.
Back then you had families living on a 100, 125, 150 dollars a month vs. today a family can spend a hundred dollars just going out to a nice restaurant.
So YES back then it would have been hard for people to imagine 31 billion dollars.
How is that hard for you to understand?
oolong2 1 year ago
@oolong2 This is how it should have been explained, in terms of average salaries and GDP, not in terms of how long the line made of dollar bills would be. It would take less screen time and would be more respectful to a viewer. How is that hard for you to understand?
LeadHammer 1 year ago
@LeadHammer
It's called an illustration... No different than showing a cartoon pie.
You act like they took up half the documentary with this illustration when it was only a couple minutes.
There are a lot of things that people did in movie, TV, and radio that we would regard as silly today.
It just sounds like you're trying to impose your current culture, mindset and thought process to judge the communication effectiveness of 60 year old video which is rather silly and pointless.
oolong2 1 year ago
the more they change the more they stay the same,..
MrMentalflossed 1 year ago
Great Video!!! I think now more than ever this video needs to be seen by as many people as possible. Unfortunately many people instead of feeling the urge of becoming active in grassroots organizations get really nihilistic and start to feel despair. Ideology has a lot to do with our current predicament. Institutions such as the media, as well as educational outlets prevent us from acknowledging the predicament that we're in under the hegemony of banking and corporate rule. We must all unite!!
Alberto2382 1 year ago
@Alberto2382 Well said, big daddy!!!
jcperezngaby 1 year ago
Good video that shows that business and government have conspired against the serfs (citizens). Happened then. Happens today.
I had to LMAO about the GE segment. GE gave $499,130 to Obama. And Goldman Sachs gave him $994,795.
All wage slaves are to bow to the emperor. We should never question their special health care and retirement. They deserve their lavish vacations.
They will make MORE laws for us that we must follow because they know what is best for us.
iknownothingnow 1 year ago
This film should remind the American people what they lost during the McCarthy witch-hunts, when the unions were effectively purged and those workers with a will to fight were driven underground. Notice that no union organization has the balls today to say the things their counterparts said almost sixty years ago, even though the problems are far, far larger now. It will take a lot of work to change this.
blackiron60 1 year ago 3
@blackiron60 I guess if mcCarthy was able to do what he did, there was already many people willing to accept the communism eradication: existence was already a lot tougher for unions than in most european countries and strikes repression as well. So I'm guessing communism was never meant to be in such a religious country as the US. But if I'm wrong correct me I can only guess since I'm not an expert in US history...
sinekonata 1 year ago
@sinekonata Religion wasn't the reason why McCarthyism took off, the whole red-baiting campaign was based on propaganda and scare tactics. Communists and socialists were a driving force behind the union victories in the 1930s and 40s and Cold War-era paranoia was exploited and aggravated so that powerful interests could eliminate these groups. The union movement in the US was actually very strong and that's why the elites conspired and manipulated to take it down.
blackiron60 1 year ago
@blackiron60
I know that but in europe, communism and socialism got to run a lot longer and stronger although the communist "threat" was a lot closer: only western europe was still capitalist. So if it's not because of people's state of mind divergences, what was that huge difference about? The only other reason I can think of is that the corporations in US were a lot stronger than in europe and middle class a lot wealthier.
sinekonata 1 year ago
When this video was made, you'll notice in the pie chart that banking assets were less than 10 percent of GDP and the remainder were represented by producers of actual, tangible products. About 15 years ago, bank assets represented about 17 percent of GDP and today the assets of the six largest banks in the United States today total 63 percent of GDP. Banks do not actually produce anything but simply trade in capital.
1140Cecile 1 year ago 8
Google
Modern Servitude
greenhell666 1 year ago
A very succinct view of how corporations have taken all the power from the people.
kd1s 1 year ago
If this is the world we have with this crooks running the show, imagine what kind of world we could have if this crooks are put down... instant paradise!
gringodeltoro1 1 year ago 3
@gringodeltoro1 I don't think so. The real world is not that simple..
Bellybusterr 1 year ago
@Bellybusterr It is actually, but the problem is when you put one crook down, another one appear somewhere else... we need spiritual enlightment.... otherwise we are bound to repeat the same bullshit.
gringodeltoro1 1 year ago 5
@gringodeltoro1 Hear Hear!
elboertjie 1 year ago 2
@gringodeltoro1 And what would that enlightenment consist of exactly?
Bellybusterr 1 year ago
@Bellybusterr something to do with weed... obviously!
gringodeltoro1 1 year ago
There is another aspect in this as it is that at turning math and physics is so much reliable with its formulas like the "Surface feet per minute" , that one can theoretically summ the exact outcome of each item. In wartimes production is optimized and once new results of new tools and cooling are in, there is now way back. I`d say that it is an exact example of norming for all other mechanics, and mathing with it means taking out the whip...sort of...
Realizalize 1 year ago
12:40 grand jury, in 1942, slapped General Eclectic with a criminal indictment charging they: unlawfully, willfully and feloniously conspire, combined, confederate and agree together to defraud the united states by making collusive, fraudulent, identical and noncompetitive bids at unreasonably high prices. . . but that's not all. In spite of war these companies operated internationally through subsidiaries, stock participation and cartel agreements with various other companies. Sound familiar?
FriedDaisy 1 year ago 3
17:55
If you mention the name "ROCKEFELLER" now you get called a conspiracy nut...
Propaganda has served them well.
Sheeple are PROUD of their ignorance.
DackIsBack 1 year ago 3
VERY INTERESTING!
voicubogdan84 1 year ago 2
Very educational, much of this content still applies today. Nothing has really changed except manufacturing is all overseas.
afferch 1 year ago
a little taste of fascism.
jokerbookshop 1 year ago
Sure had all that money for your pipe tobacco didn't you Bill?
KingAssmar 1 year ago
Truly interesting.
WhereIsTheExit 1 year ago
Printing money is like typing in all caps
It makes it look important but it's just worthless
IronicallyVague 1 year ago
THE USA STARTED FIGHTING BECAUSE HITLER STARTED PRINTING HIS OWN MONEY AND THE BANKS DIDNT LIKE THAT!!!!! READ THE REAL STORY BEHIND WW2, EVERY BIG US CORPORATION FUNDED HITLER BECAUSE HITLER HATED COMMUNISM AND CORPORATIONS HATE UNIONS AND COMMUNISM AND THATS GOOD FOR CAPITALISM AND HITLER WAS THE MAN TO PUT AN END TO COMMUNISM IN THE EAST, BUT AS SOON AS HE STARTED TO PRINT MONEY OOOHHH NO WE MUST PUT AN END TO IT NOW!
solimiansky 1 year ago
@solimiansky obnoxious troll is obnoxious
Mendelevium146 1 year ago
@solimiansky you're a moron. all countries print money. do you believe in money trees?
superfuzz 1 year ago
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solimiansky 1 year ago
@solimiansky Oligarchs don't hate Communism. Some helped Lenin overthrow Alexander Kerensky (not the abdicated Tsar) who wanted to make Russia a Constitutional Republic like the United States. And the Soviets were dependent on Western technological aid all the way through the Vietnam War. See Dr. Antony C. Sutton's Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development, and National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union.
pathocrat 1 year ago
@pathocrat You are also way off about Hitler. He took over the Reichsbank in 1939 and printed Reichsmark (not treasury notes), so many that by 1948 it was replaced by the Deutschemark at an exchange rate of 10:1.
pathocrat 1 year ago
@pathocrat oligarchs don't care what "ism" they're asked to do business with-- communism, socialism, libertarianism, capitalism, corporatism, etc-- because when one controls all the resources and money, one controls everything. Including governments, politician/flunkies and citizen/slaves.
FriedDaisy 1 year ago
@pathocrat Kerensky if I'm correct did not want to make Russia a constitutional republic and that was the aim of the Green army [Kerensky} being white, who were Libertarians See Voline from Anthony C Sutton Wall Street And The Boshevik Revolution
mikeoli 1 year ago
@mikeoli Kerensky was Minister-President of the Republic.
The Whites had no hope of restoring the Empire, they understood a Republic was a plutocratic aristocracy like the United States.
pathocrat 1 year ago