1. This is the 50th anniversary, of course, of the 1963 March on Washington, as well. Could that happen in America? AMY GOODMAN: Thats Robert Reich, featured in Inequality for All, talking about what inspires you. They want an America as good as its promise. In Denmark it's 24%. We are living through tumultuous times. WebAs long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest. It showed. It certainly shocked Reich. At the end of the day, it It's almost shocking now for someone not to do that. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.. Globalisation and technology have played their role. James Anthony Froude. The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream. The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. Reich and others like him will say it comes from a combination of greater taxation of the wealthy, increased wages, and decreased costs (for healthcare, education, and housing). and the mother's mother arrives to gloat. If more people consume, or if people consume more, then that expands the economy, and thats a good thing, and the best people needed for increasing consumption are middle class people. But he never has. 2. What Reich also points out is that since the 1990s, particularly from the time Bill Clinton became president, there was a massive upward turn in the slope of stock market gains. This tends to bolster his credibility as a sensible and sober criticat least until the very recent turn in his writing, as already mentioned. WebSome inequality is inevitable because of the term CAPITALISM. Reich identifies three ways of coping with flattening or declining incomes: Reich does not mention immigrationso see Immigration and Capital: a society can also maximize the size of its total labour force by encouraging trafficking in workers (otherwise called human trafficking or illegal immigration). On the other hand, this film has a fairly narrow political point of view; the commentary is often generic, predictable, and simple; some important analytical problems are left unexamined; and, the film is often not very engaging to watch. The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. He has this absolute moral compass. Rather than get stuck in such problems, Reich simply resolves matters thus: Look, the question is not inequality per se. The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society. It's why he teaches. We believe businesses need to focus on closing the equality gap with the same energy put into creating new products and markets. The system simply isn't working, he says. It's not determined. The politics of fear. , And that creates a speculative bubble in both times. And increasingly, that boils down to the rich and the poor. George Grizzard - President Lockwood. WebAs long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest. This, to put it another way, is the annual wage bill for at least 12,500 of its call-centre workers. This is the 50th anniversary, of course, of the 1963 March on Washington, as well. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.. 31 The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself.There is no commandment greater than these.. The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life., I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Maya Angelou. For now all we know is that the middle class is great at doing one particular thing: consuming. "Just let me finish, Eric. I n one sense, Inequality for All is absolutely the film of the moment. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.. Reich has nonetheless been a consistent critic of neoliberal capitalism, a fact which has distanced him from the Clinton group, and which in some regards brings him closer to Donald Trump, and much closer to Bernie Sanders. George Orwell.. Robert Reich. There are two problematic concepts that are central to the narrative of this documentary, and at least Reich is aware that they are problematic. "But then I'd tell people it's An Inconvenient Truth for the economy and they'd go, Ah!". That the free market is good. When the middle classes (in its American sense of the 25% above and below the median wage) have so little of the economic pie that it affects not just their lives but the economy as a whole. Director Jacob Kornbluth Stars Robert Reich Dolly Parton (archive footage) The supreme commandment of the rich is Invest! The supreme commandment of the rest of us is Buy! The capitalistconsumerist ethic is revolutionary in another respect. Inequality, in all its forms gender, LGBTQ, racial, or otherwise is an issue that every company must address for its own benefit and to create a better world. And, crucially, it can be changed. These are some of the main questions addressed in Inequality for All (2013), a documentary by Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labour in the Bill Clinton administration (see the website for the documentary, and its resources page). "Robert Reich?" Inequality Equality Relationships Treatment Hypocrisy Socialism Dependence Education Solution Problems Overcoming Challenges Knowledge Opportunity Ineq Life Communism Reality Human Nature Austerity has cut a swath through the country. And before that I was a member of the Carter administration. The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It aint no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.. We believe businesses need to focus on closing the equality gap with the same energy put into creating new products and markets. Web502 words 2 page (s) Inequality for All is an eye-opening peek behind the curtain of economic disparities. WebAs long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest. In fact here we run up against an anthropological mythnot a myth that anthropologists as such have created or defended (though some have), but a myth that is of anthropological nature because it makes fundamental assumptions about the human condition. Inequality-For-All is a documentary made by Professor Reich to enable us to understand in a very clear cut manner, the issues facing us today, the widening gap of inequality, why it is happening and what can we do to reverse it. He doesn't seem to let it get to him. We're on the verge of a triple-dip recession. Even in Great Britain, where they still have an aristocracy, it's 30%.". 1928 and 2007 saw the economy relying on the financial sector to provide all of their money. Each documentary is viewed at least four times before a written review is published. //