The One Percent Part 2/8

This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing "wealth gap" in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson, who cut his film teeth at NYU and made the Emmy®-nominated 2003 HBO documentary Born Rich, here sets his sights on exploring the political, moral and emotional rationale that enables a tiny percentage of Americans - the one percent - to control nearly half the wealth of the entire United States. The film Includes interviews with Nicole Buffett, Bill Gates Sr., Adnan Khashoggi, Milton Friedman, Robert Reich, Ralph Nader and other luminaries.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• The
• one
• percent
• top
• 1%
• rich
• elite
• capitalism
• free
• market
• wealth
• poor
• poverty
• inequality
• corporations
• corporcracy

[slicydicer]

Trickle down effect is like when you walk past a bum and you might feel like throwing him a dollar but you sort of don't have to so you don't.

[tw1704]

What about the thousands of factory buildings that once employed Americans? What is your opinion of the people who are displaced as a result of these properties being sold? We have to also stop assuming that the poor just sit around waiting for help. The majority of the lower class people are hard workers who are trying to pull themselves up.

[ClothDolls2011]

I love you for doing this film... Thank you. I pray this will open the eyes of the very rich...

[deletemycommentnow]

fuckin ego maniacs

[deletemycommentnow]

its so moral to have all those iphone assemblers in china work 12 to 18 hours days and have awful working conditions

[deletemycommentnow]

Bullshit 0:45 to 1:00 making money has nothing to do wih morals... this system is a fraud..

[dnizzle18]

the moon statement is bold and deeply chilling

[TheAfroCelt]

YOU AREN'T EVER GOING TO GET AHEAD, UNLESS YOU SELL YOUR SOUL. PERIOD. IF YOUR NOT A MEMBER OF ELITE SOCIETY, YOUR A SLAVE!