Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream⎜WHY POVERTY?⎜(Documentary)

How much inequality is too much?
740 Park Ave, New York City, is home to some of the wealthiest Americans. Across the Harlem River, 10 minutes to the north, is the other Park Avenue in South Bronx, where more than half the population live on food stamps and children are 20 times more likely to be killed. In the last 30 years, inequality has rocketed in the US -- the American Dream only applies to those with enough money to lobby politicians for friendly bills on Capitol Hill.
Filmmaker: Alex Gibney
Producer: Blair Foster
Produced by Jigsaw Productions & THE WHY Foundation
Released: 2012
This film was originally released as part of THE WHY series WHY POVERTY?. Learn more about the project: www.thewhy.dk/projects/why-po...
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[@Ice-FoxXx]

This is seven years old, but the situation is even worse today. Can you imagine what it's going to look like in another seven years........

[@paulyakaitis3352]

IceXFoXx yeah, there’s more millionaires today!

[@juanshaftpatel7488]

because black lives matter

[@hunterpaulson8225]

Well no it’s not. President Trump has accepted $0 from wall street lobbyists. Bloomberg spent MILLIONS on the primary, and lost. You can’t buy Washington. This video is mostly false, and it’s entire point is to tear down the capitalistic system

[@iskandarqiao6919]

Might be a revolution, led by populists or socialists.

[@annemeridien3384]

I agree. It is going to be bad in the coming years. Makes me sad. I worked as an estate/property manager for five well known American billionaires for 20 years. I understand the inequity. Fancy job and high pay, I eventually quit. I feel worried about our futures. Will this be the next "Romanoff's."

[@Alec04136]

Who’s here for the sociology homework?

[@andrewmcclare7242]

I'd love to see the economists and other professionals in this do come back and analyze how much worse the situation has gotten now. Considering the incredible wealth gap increase due to the pandemic I can only imagine what they think about our current outlook.

[@notabene7381]

Richard Wolff / Democracy at Work.

[@Isochest]

Economic collapse and civil war?

[@andrewmcclare7242]

@@Isochest I just happen to also see someone post that the average span of an empire is 250 years, and the US is just at 245 😂 so maybe we'll see something change soon :O

[@markspencer171]

leftist idiot comment

[@andrewmcclare7242]

@@markspencer171 awesome, thanks for contributing to the convo

[@samdasilva1914]

I really hate the expression "if you work hard" there are millions of people who work hard, millions who hold down several jobs, millions who work long hours, millions who work in hard physical labour jobs, millions who work in low paid positions. They also work hard, it's not about that, it's a combination of circumstances , choices and luck. Not everyone is born into wealth, not everyone has access to top level education.

[@td2555]

Well said!

[@josephforest7605]

Good one . I have been in a few jams in my life and my family was there to take care of me . I wonder , if I would be living on the streets if it wasn't for my family . In other words as you have mentioned , circumstances . I study street people and they have all the same thing in common , a problem that I do not have addiction and mental illness. Years ago near my work , a fellow would park his car , close to my work and sleep in the car . I imagine the reason why he did not go to a shelter , is that he did not have an addiction or mental illness , he was just broke .

[@jasonpark1556]

It's not about that either, it's about living below your means and investing. There are stories about people that made less than $15 their whole life but have a 6 figure portfolio. Also look at millionaire statistics

[@samdasilva1914]

@@jasonpark1556 "living below your means"??? Is that even a phrase? Yes, let's look a millionaire status. I will start with sports stars, film stars, reality TV people, wait... let's look at Amazon... people who are hiding away their money in various "schemes" rather than paying their taxes.

[@jasonpark1556]

@@samdasilva1914 sure let's look at Amazon, Jeff Bezos risked it all by quitting his job and starting it on a garage where he wasn't profitable for years(and still isn't very profitable) he started it before the dot com bubble which drove even his sales down from what little he had. However after providing services that MOST people see as convinient he took his company public and now holds the title as the richest man. People hate him cuz consumers are also assholes who overwork people but then feel bad and blame it on the owner

[@bennygpc1200]

"𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢, 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙖𝙨𝙡𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙩." - 𝙂𝙚𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙣

[@nadirrabah6756]

😂😂😂 I forgot that he did that stand up bit lol

[@jpeter5715]

Great Man ! RIP

[@beekaydee7334]

Psalm 49: 16 - 17:- "Do not be afraid when another person becomes rich, and the glory of his house is increased. For when he dies he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him." Further reading: 1 Timothy 6: 6 - 10

[@iam1smiley1]

Yup, these people are the rich in our lifetime, they will die. This is simply propaganda! 🤣

[@DSAK55]

his glory shall not descend after him, but his pollical influence will

[@georgeramos3437]

I was born & raised in NYC. I am from the Bronx. This super sad reality is 💯% accurate. I visited a home on Park Avenue in the South Bronx. I thought, ‘This is one of the most horrible homes that I have ever visited in New York City.”

[@jacksalami9945]

Please explain, what made the home horrible ? genuine question

[@josephforest7605]

Why?

[@bambino100011]

This is why I have always said that corporate lobbying should be outlawed.

[@TheFoolintherainn]

Who's going to blink first? What politician is actually going to make it to a political office by calling out campaign finance reform? It's like Social security - it's the third rail in politics.

[@jj5962]

And, they crush unions, which Lobby for the poor! Disgusting criminals.

[@slobodanpaunovic3834]

Corporate lobbying is undercover expretion for corrupt thieves in our parliaments.

[@slobodanpaunovic3834]

100%

[@rudimoesbauer184]

So true.

[@vivianoosthuizen8990]

Where’s the courage of the 150 million poor to change this

[@lincolnkarim1]

I feel the first thing for them to do is learn their History. Cut out garbage TV and listen to stories from their old folk. There is a huge influx of 1st generation Africans in Harlem and the Bronx, but the Americans (of African descent), look down on them. The former quickly abandon their traditional ways and take up the shallow culture of those lost and oppressed Americans. My Nigerian colleague was ashamed to wear his traditional clothing and often tried to hide his home made Nigerian food at work--until I gave him a good swift kick in the ass and told him to be proud of his culture. "You should be ashamed to wear your pants hanging down your butt and eating American junk food!"

[@westsidegranny6100]

We are broken and stupid.

[@lorainestjames4181]

they are worn out from trying to survive no energy left to trudge on. How could they change things, however, being homeless is great visuals to show a change needs to happen.

[@waterotter3625]

They're busy getting maced in the face by the hired thugs of the rich for protesting conditions.

[@panismith1544]

Very true...disgusting

[@karlaruthford5149]

This video was released on KZbin in 2013. Wealth inequality has gotten much worse. (1-5-19)

[@seanlee30001]

@Chuck Dellano you get rewarded more as you work harder in capitalistic society. Dumbo. Poor is poor for reason.

[@kakumee]

Na it 3-11-2020... Wait till 11-1-2020...the poor people won't have anything we'll be slaves to rich people, at first they will say the people "losing" there rights "deserve" it...yah because poor people, people of color, people who are disabled, people who are elderly ( because vetrens of wars, the ederly who paid into the system to get some comfort back in there sunset years and enjoy there life that they spent building country and people who are disabled should not have any help or opportunity to go forward, people who work full time jobs even good full time jobs can't make it because they get paid too little from there job when the CEO and there buddy's need more money because they don't have enough to even keep wages, even if they have good jobs and because hay taking food from starving kids, meds from cancer patients, and forcing the sionr citazens to get a job because you can work in 80s like you did in your 20s is ok and today works

[@jacklarue7049]

This comment was written on 1/5/19. Wealth inequality has gotten much worse. (3/12/20)

[@westsidegranny6100]

@@seanlee30001 hey, Sean, you bought the whole nine yards, didnt you? Wait.

[@westsidegranny6100]

@MrGorgeouslyme mr. G. So, one country collapsed. Research. Many countries are surviving, no thriving while socialist. Are you stingy or careless or just a follower of the Republican philosophy do as I say, not as I do. Cheap and extremly selfish. If I can do it they can also. UNTRUE,FOOL.

[@alaskansummertime]

I'm 50 now and have been watching this slide my entire life. When I was a kid you could have a job bagging groceries and pay a mortgage on a house. I found no matter how hard I worked, no matter how much overtime, no matter how much I saved I felt like I was living in a real life playing out of The Jungle. This country does not have much time left. It honestly can not be fixed at this point. No matter what reforms you try and make you are bestowing them on people who have been deprived of a proper upbringing. Poor education, poor diet and the most commonly overlooked factor of heavy chemical contamination of our environment. Everything wrong with people started to explode in the late eighties. Obesity, autism, ADHD, everything. The big corporations and wealthy don't give a fuck. Not only do they rig the game but they dump toxins in our environment to slowly poison us.

[@carolbenedict5654]

Luxury tax. For all purchases that are strictly luxury items like items of clothing over 25K, jewelry over 25k, yachts, etc.

[@SarahSobieski]

They do poison, but only because it's cheaper and more convenient. Why would they intentionally kill off the working wage population that actually pay taxes...

[@OanhSchlesinger]

@@SarahSobieski I paid more in taxes 20 years ago than I do today.

[@CristMakhanya]

Damn if anyone every thought they could live a good life bagging groceries the rest of their working lives then they have no one to blame but themselves. Bagging requires no skill. Zero!!!

[@fletcherdalton910]

@@CristMakhanya Like being a hedge fund baby requires any skills. Jesus watch the documentary and then actually contribute to the conservation. Bagging groceries and being a hard worker is much better than being given millions by daddy and mommy. We need a living wage for the middle class or this country will fall apart.

[@thatsthejobbb8587]

I watched a doc on when Ghana struck oil. A government exec said a line in questioning with the interviewer "In America, they call it lobbying. Here we call it corrupting you to change the law". At least they're upfront about their corruption & extortion....

[@lisaw6219]

To say this video was eye opening is an understatement!

[@minymoe9475]

@@WhoisJohnGalt402 Are you talking about the corporate welfare in the form of tax breaks that corporations get? The wealthy are the biggest welfare recipients that there is. Yet, everybody gets all worked up about poor folk receiving chump change through social programs.

[@DeJaVu337]

I was raised in the Alfred E.Smith Housing Project and delivered newspapers to the Park/Madison Avenue Art Deco buildings for many years as a youth. I also shined shoes to the Wall Street executives to supplement my income and did quite well. I leveraged my money and bought a Studio Co-Op in Queens, sold it 4 years later and secured a 1 bedroom condo, and 3 years later got a 2 bedroom. Leveraged that Condo and secure a gutted crack house in Harlem and sold it 14 years later for 3 Million.

[@allegrabraun7545]

😂😂😂 the good old United States of American Way!

[@annetoronto5474]

Fantastic, love your story! It's about making good choices, they are not always easy choices.

[@omajestyqueenanne7557]

Give the Most High GOD, Almighty the credit, for allowing you through the Matrix maze; but do NOT snub those. who have not been so favored, as there is a time for everything and everything has its time. Ecclesiastes 3 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; ...

[@DeJaVu337]

@@annetoronto5474 When u wish upon a Star, makes no difference who u r ... Dreams do come true ! Dream BIG ... it's the POWER of mind over MATTER !

[@DeJaVu337]

@Ones Ones U just need to reprogram your inner computer and rid yourself of all those nasty viruses and delete the bullshit. It's MIND over MATTER, if u don't mind it doesn't matter. Know thyself & the truth WILL set U FREE ! I AM I, AM I ?

[@whatabouttheearth]

"🎶 Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows Everybody knows that the boat is leaking Everybody knows that the captain lied Everybody got this broken feeling Like their father or their dog just died Everybody talking to their pockets Everybody wants a box of chocolates And a long-stem rose Everybody knows 🎶" Leonard Cohen

[@nicknack2222]

GameStop played monopoly with one dice and got the “move pass go” card 10 times in a row and the guys with two dice flipped the table over to end the game.

[@evalangley3985]

You got it wrong, GME was the revenge of the small retail investors against Wallstreet... and it will happen again... we finally caught them with both hands in the cookie jar.

[@panismith1544]

LUCK!!$$$ & GOOD FORTUNES

[@Talleyhoooo]

@@evalangley3985 they won at the end of the day though, they spooked the hodl’s into submission. GME won’t happen again.

[@tatendazimbwa5231]

The best part "some rich people are just dicks" lol

[@Polarbear-zy6vf]

Tatenda Zimbwa Yes. The doorman said it best, these are some of the most detestable people. They think they are Gods in their head.

[@xpsxps1339]

Nope! The "best part" would be: "Some billionaires even aren't dicks, but quite nice people." (And some really are, but it would be an ultra-short list of them.)

[@gailtacon9581]

Sharing is caring.Its much more often that poor people are more generous than rich people.

[@westsidegranny6100]

We always are the first to toss a twenty when the rich like to say" they just want it for drugs. Or why dont they work" great parents, they had, hu?

[@thereisonlyonewright3040]

@@westsidegranny6100 Poor people know the feeling therefore empathize

[@SoftLivingCreative]

Gail Tacon correct

[@jennygibbons1258]

Oh! but the rich can indeed be incredibly generous - donating millions to 'charitable foundations' - so long as it's in front of the cameras, fully tax deductible and provides ample money laundering opportunities.

[@HypnoticHollywood]

@@jennygibbons1258 John Rockefella donated $500 million during a time before news cameras and media. The average poor person strives to earn just enough to be comfortable and knock those who strive for more.

[@rokuwhitefox7764]

"The Wormwoods lived in a very nice house, in a very nice town, but they were not very nice people." -Matilda

[@insertnamehereee]

This is an incredibly sad documentary. I researched this issue when I stumbled across a giant, sprawling chateau in the middle of Columbus Circle (I go to school in the city) and felt a rush of alienation and injustice just by looking at the place with its limo, butler (and I would later find online: private chef, swimming pool, and limestone lobby). Thank you for the amazing editing skills, and for putting so many thinkers and historical moments in conversation with each other. However, I do feel sad. It's hard to think things will ever change.

[@billiebillie678]

This movie makes me sad. So much greed! Like how much money does a single person need?! Now I see why the rich are hated so much in this country.

[@teewilliams4272]

So basically the rich were behind the depression. I knew it. 🙅🙅🙅🙎

[@christopherh5672]

Tee Williams duhhhhhhhhh

[@elaineproffitt4640]

Yes. Just like they were behind the 2008 crash and the recent COVID lockdown crash which is looking to be worse than the Great Depression.

[@elaineproffitt4640]

People were murdered to prevent bankers being sued in 2008

[@hermanrogers1325]

Yep that’s right every ten years or so they crash the stock markets and take all the money and leave the people to scrape by

[@riverdeep399]

and the 2008 credit crunch. and the greed of ordinary Boomers chucking stick on credit, they played right into the hands of greedy 1percenters.

[@kateskeys]

I live near rich people on the upper east side. (My apartment is dump) I have yet to meet ONE rich person - in nyc or anywhere that smiled, covered, kind, friendly or approachable. My relatives are rich and they are cheap and shallow. Money is toxic.

[@hermanrogers1325]

When you lose money in the stock markets the money doesn’t disappear it goes into someone else pocket. The stock markets are like a pic pocket and nothing can be done about it and they know it

[@minymoe9475]

True. Now they also have crypto to pump and dump.

[@susanray4059]

I keep wondering when the ppl of this once great Nation will awake from their deep slumber and realize the wealth inequity stole their government. Now only the illusion is left. sigh

[@corysturgis6660]

Bernie is the only only willing to point it out and has made a lifetime career of it.

[@Freethought73]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2760">46:00</a> "Just because you're rich doesn't make you smart, doesn't make you cultured, doesn't make you refined.....some rich people are DICKS!" Poetry in motion. :-)

[@dondressel4802]

FreeThinker73 yes I have friends that are very wealthy and when you go out to eat they are the last to pull out their wallet Bottom line is their selfish pricks

[@iluvpittys242]

I would say most are unless their out for something! Most poor people are willing to give the shirt off their back to help someone if they need it more than you !

[@Anexoticadventure]

@@dondressel4802 Or just smart, and that's why they're rich.

[@kiki29073]

@@iluvpittys242 New money are normally worse than old money.

[@leroyoterang5407]

! Our country is broken! Why don't you critisize both parties? Theyre both corrupt as hell! Owned by special interests. Media divides us, right vs left, but they lie too. Make a plan. Vote, even if it's a protest vote (write-in). WRITE or call your Senator and Representative and DEMAND (ESPECIALLY) anti-corruption laws , improvement of inequality, better wages, ban lobbying, better healthcare or you'll vote them out. Both parties are corrupt as hell but we need to fight to take back our country.

[@TheBreezus]

This is still relevant some 8 years down the road.

[@Teporame]

Not only that, it is worst, much more worst, if that superlative is possible.

[@uniqtraveller2162]

Thank you so much for the best documentary! Very educative

[@glitteringsword7516]

Proverbs <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1742">29:2</a> = When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

[@bradleyswissman]

Proverbs 16:8 - Better to have little, with godliness, than to be rich and dishonest. Proverbs 18:11 - The rich think of their wealth as a strong defense; they imagine it to be a high wall of safety. Proverbs 1:19 - Such is the fate of all who are greedy for money; it robs them of life. And my personal favorite: Proverbs 28:6 - Better to be poor and honest than to be dishonest and rich.

[@tuduloo7799]

Quoting the bible...this is why your country is fucked...you are all delusonal..drop the fairytales and get your country back.

[@Emily-cj9nc]

It's not delusional; it's true

[@SquidCena]

@@tuduloo7799 its why the world is going to end... you cant keep your mouth shut and leave people around right? You're delusional for thinking their is no God.

[@roder51]

@@SquidCena I don't think anyone who spelled their for there is not too bright to begin with. And yes Americans know more about fairy tales than they do about their political and historical history.

[@chosen_one1602]

They got money for wars but cant feed the poor- Tupac

[@michaelstevens7140]

FACTS straight ☝

[@jackj5368]

Boring comment. Money makes the world go 'round. Learn something, then figure out how to use it to make some money, 'not-the-chosen-one (that's for certain)".

[@RPAChampion]

Bro, I swear I thought to myself once I was finished watching this I’d see your subscribe count and it was going to be in the millions.. haha Great content and super informative I’ll be coming back for sure.

[@estee3305]

This whole documentary gives me the shivers ~ it reminds me of a Sc!entology Documentary.

[@nitroflesh]

Sc!entology is nothing compared to this

[@MissCane9]

Gibney also did a Scientology documentary called "CLEAR."

[@sweetdash7298]

at the end, we all have the same apartment "6 FOOT GRAVE" , funny isn't it? nothing fancy but the headstone

[@westsidegranny6100]

Sweetiedash. You have a way with prospective. Good for you!

[@noname-by3qz]

Sweet dash.... Or we turn into 3 pds of ash.

[@patrickmartin2689]

Your statement is true but the future for thier generation will put us in that 6ft hole faster...😑😑😑✌✌✌

[@dadnonlyd3]

unless you have enough money to cryogenically freeze yourself only for future generations to restore you... this money stuff is great

[@noname-by3qz]

@@dadnonlyd3 I think you said the opposite of what you meant.

[@crystalparker100]

Republicans and Democrats are two royal families fighting for the throne, while the peasants pick a team to cheer for.

[@rrpearsall]

Nah.. they're more like competing whore monopolies

[@MrLegit-xi5nw]

Never heard the truth put in that way,but the facts remain right in front our faces. 2020

[@rrpearsall]

@@MrLegit-xi5nw If you want a true bitch slap Truth Experience.. Just Look at Epstein.. The Oligarchs don't even try to conceal the truth anymore..

[@rrpearsall]

@Jane Doe Please take some time to meditate so you can articulate why you're so angry with my comment.. You're obviously triggered but what have you accomplished besides showing KZbin you like like an unstable inarticulate fool!?

[@rrpearsall]

@Jane Doe Was it 24 or 29 times BILL CLINTON Flew on Lolita Express Jeffrey Epstein's private jet??

[@christopherhan3347]

Ayn Rand's eyes! She was clearly stark staring bonkers.

[@simoncarlile4961]

I've been poor every minute of my life,and just now had an epiphany.The deck is stacked against me.WTF.

[@MasterTSayge]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2700">45:00</a> One rich mentor told me a real secret. He told me "the real reason why the rich treats doormens and concierges like crap is because they let them." That woke me up.

[@cassieo4337]

SKYRULE49 So true. Americans let this happen. They bought into the republican scam and started voting against their best interests.

[@Hannah-zw9ow]

@@cassieo4337 a Republican has only won the popular vote once in the last 30 years, and that was 17 years ago. The issue is not that people have bought Republicans’ BS, it’s that our system has been rigged since the 1800s. When the southern states tried to secede from the nation in the 1860s over slavery, we told them if they would stay in the union they could count every single person in the state when determining how many electoral votes they would get. So they got electoral votes that represented thousands of black slaves who couldn’t even vote. They rigged the system so those states would always have disproportionate power and we’re still seeing the effects of it. For a Democrat to win an election they don’t just need a basic majority (51%), they actually need 53% because the system is skewed against them. Yes their dumb asses are loud, but they aren’t the majority and haven’t been in a long time.

[@cassieo4337]

@@Hannah-zw9ow that doesn't change the fact that Americans have allowed this to continue to happen. They just haven't cared enough to hold these guys accountable for what would certainly disqualify them from ever holding office in any other western democracy. To see the likes of McConnell, Graham, Jordan, Nunes, Gohmert, Cruz etc elected time after time, it's pretty clear yours is no representative democracy. Isn't it about time it was though?

[@Isochest]

@@cassieo4337 Most people have a Status compass not a Moral compass. An uncomfortable truth and most people are uncomfortable with the truth

[@namedrop721]

Why do you think they let them? Hell working a fast food window at least once a shift there’s some middle class Karen trying to lose a girl her job over some $2 fries

[@magicjohnson4464]

The number one question in the world. How much money does a billionaire need to feel comfortable

[@TheCritic9196]

It's like asking how much drugs an addict needs, it's a psychological thing it has nothing to do with comfort

[@AztecDread]

It's not about money its about the game capitalism

[@jpmtlhead39]

When the Greed of someone, means "crushing" others lifes, can be said, thats "criminal".

[@InTheNow2020]

"It's a zero sum game pal, there are no winners or losers, the money just merely changes hands". - Gordon Gekko - Wall Street

[@ItsaUFOduh]

Lately I've been seeing people get jobs at movie theatres or convenience stores and they act like they won the lottery. How pathetic is that?! Is that how bleak the job outlook is in this country? Meanwhile i see economists going on tv saying "don't worry, job outsourcing and trade deficits don't mean anything".

[@BunneRabb]

*+Dick Aspey* Not EVERYBODY said that. Reference - 2016 election.

[@randyscott3386]

In case you don't know , it's dam near impossible to get the "GOOD JOB " when you don't have "ANY JOB" . The employers want to see that you can and will work , you're employable , you can show up on time , you're reliable, you can get along with others. and on and on . Again , to get the good job start with the bad job . That bad job will get you the good job . We're living in a society that doesn't reward failure more and more everyday .

[@TheNoirAlien]

Working enables independence, go figure.

[@westsidegranny6100]

Dick...it is much worse than anyone chooses to admit. There are no jobs. Period. Thank that son of a bitch Bill Clinton for selling this country out and that mega monster Ronsld Fucking Regan for ending the unions. He did as number of mean things. Buy you are young and strong. Hopefully you are trained for something. If not volunteer, it opens doors that otherwise would be closed. Good luck.

[@lyledeyounges1276]

The greed of these people is mind-blowing...

[@bethbartlett5692]

Ego -

[@ToddSloanIAAN]

Beth Bartlett My wife has it. I used to until I saw how to not let it go unchecked.It refuses to recognize her humanity inside her real spiritual self. Sad sad sad. It's that way for most, I think.

[@bethbartlett5692]

@@ToddSloanIAAN It is the Materialism - the Adolescent Ego-Minded rather that Ethical Conscious Application of thought that develops Mature Balanced Thought - Behaviors. And "Spiritual" is absolutely so accurate - the higher self and the step we are here to make. So precision accurate you are.

[@ToddSloanIAAN]

Beth Bartlett ...like a blind consumer race... materialism is your accurate assessment! Bigger is better is a program we blindly chase like a carrot leading the horse race! The American dream is just that... to be fair in spirit about it honestly in my opinion. Thanks for your input, it means great peace today!

[@allisonrogers1409]

You're assuming wealth = greed . Why? The wealthy are under no obligation to subsidize the poor.

[@netsch20]

I remember watching this and being very surprised when at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="34">0:34</a> I saw the doorman for the building my grandparents used to live. I was like, I know that guy!

[@SW-wf3gy]

That pastor and his wife at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="420">7:00</a> are people that demand true respect!

[@richcampus]

~●~"... in order to produce the luxuries of the rich... there must be an abundance of the poor..." ~●~ Voltaire

[@philly440]

At what point do you run out of things to waste money on? like how much money does one person actually need and can even spend I just don't get it... On top of their greed, they don't even pay any taxes it's mind blowing

[@chuckkottke]

But Trump wants to buy Greenland! Greedland wants Greenland.🙂😀🙃

[@yvonnejensen1969]

The first few seconds were a real estate commercial. The second few seconds were an emotive appeal to make you feel bad about the real estate commercial. The guilt trip is based on the same tired old arguments that don't point out the specifics what is actually causing poverty. Park Avenue, rich or poor isn't America's problem. Regulation and oppression through regulation is.

[@roseannamazzei7849]

Thank you. Well said.

[@embracedmadness]

How do you explain the higher living standards of Europe? They have regulations.

[@DisposableSupervillainHenchman]

“Regulations are bad” is a garbage libertarian argument from people who have zero understanding of externalities. It’s simple on paper, but disastrous in practice. Lack of proper regulation leads to larger and larger problems that affect us all. But go on being a good lapdog for the Koch family.

[@eastbackbay]

You are spewing the same shit that your libertarian masters are pouring down your throat… and I bet you are a minimum wage earner with the only goal of ending your day with a six pack. Happy to keep rolling in your own miserable uneducated shit.

[@ntwadumela374]

these "social service professionals" are the main reason poor people decide to stay poor

[@alphaomega1351]

Actually it's religious mythology and welfare for those younger than 25. 😶

[@Kamofy]

Sadly I work for Koch Industries. David Koch constantly pushes his MBM principles at every company they own right down to the janitor. They recently got rid of year end bonuses in favor of the idea that if you go above and beyond your duties AND SAVE YOUR DEPARTMENT MONEY only then are you considered for any sort of reward. Kochs are also very sensitive to any criticism. We regularly get emails from high up where they dispute any article or TV news story where the Kochs are critiqued and call it lies or slur campaign.

[@chuckkottke]

Interesting and informative about life inside the machine! Thanks Kamofy, that tells me their scrooge philosophy runs throughout their money making scheme. I worked briefly for Wellington mfg and we worked our butts off with no bonuses, low pay, 10 hour shifts 6 and sometimes 7 days a week. All the owners did was complain about us! Then they moved the plant to Mexico, then on to China. Greed knows no limit!

[@chuckkottke]

Good Lord, the Kochs really are control freaks!

[@jasminejones9937]

Have you and your co workers ever thought to go on STRIKE ? Oh wait I'm thinking about the good ol days when workers actually had some power over powerful co operations !

[@dawnatkinson7704]

Geez..i recognise that name as one of our clients. Food for thought..

[@Johnconno]

Why you work for Cock?

[@Zincink]

Being rich is not opening your wallet for things you don't need. Being rich is knowing yourself & learning new things. Being rich is having morals, manners, health and cleanliness. Being rich is having strong family values & long time friends. I might not have a dollar to my name or a bank account, but I know the value of life's most valuable things.

[@AztecDread]

Well if you live by those things you most likely won't be broke...most employers wish people were actually like this and pay for it. Hard work and skillsets are paid well

[@MarkDavid-gi9vw]

“Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.” -Pope Francis I, 1936-”

[@uniqtraveller2162]

The best ever documentary!

[@RichardVrong876]

"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."- Confucius “Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.”- Nelson Mandela “Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life?”-Martin Luther King. “Talent is universal, opportunity is not”- Rye Barcott

[@TheWinterShadow]

Well said.

[@EnergyFlowAbundance]

Thank you

[@MikuHatsune12]

"I too can quote someone online." - Myself

[@MasterTSayge]

Why the Rich really have all the power. Here are 3 Scenarios- RICH: Govt forces Rich to increase wages for workers. Rich responded with "Scew that!! I'm moving my company to different country or go Galt" Then the Govt replies with "Never mind. Please Stay and pay your workers any income you desire" The rich man lives happily ever after. WORKERS: The Rich pays workers low wages. Workers responded by protesting and marching demanding "We want higher wages!" The Govt replied "Shut the hell up" and the Rich said "Get back to work or you'll be replaced by Scabs" and weeks or months later the workers went back to working for low wages. THE FREEMEN : The Rich pays Freemen low wages. The Freemen responded by walking out of society in droves living off grid. The Govt responded "Where you all going?, get back here!" The Freemen replied "Hell No!" The Rich Said "You all will be fired and replaced by Scabs!" The Freemen said "F**k you too, we are going Galt!!" Months and years went by and society and capitalism started to deteriorate. Governments were out of funding and collapse and The Rich companies were no longer making profits. Even though the scabs had replaced the Freemen, The Freemen were living a free and prosperous life even without the luxuries they were a custom to. They were happy! So The Rich and The Govt went to The Freemen and went on their knees and begged the Freemen to return back to society so they can rejuvenate Capitalism. At that moment The Govt And The Rich realized the workers are the engines of society. Not the Govt or the Rich. Moral of the story is the system is only as good as the common person. Capitalism is where The Govt is like the mind, The Rich is like the heart, and the workers are like the bloodstreams that keeps things going. Without the bloodstreams what good is the heart? The downside to acquiring power is that the power of The Workers requires a GROUP effort; has for, the Rich only requires the effort of only one person. And it's much easier to cooperate with self than others. So people Unite! Remember, POWER Respects POWER! not weakness. Like & Share if you agree.

[@thecamelstory6693]

not at this birth rate ! there is no war, we need chaos to create opportunity !

[@bumcheek7]

REAGAN/BUSH DESTROYED US.

[@westsidegranny6100]

You are speaking my language but, bill clinton was no hero either so dont toss him a break but that sin of a bitch, regan is the one who opened my eyes. Bush,9/11. Research and get back. Curious.

[@teetalksthereal]

This started long before Bush and Reagan. The Forefathers of America were also crooks.

[@kathikoopman442]

Poor Americans need revolution stop going to work no more taxes screw 1 percent take back agenda 21 communism

[@monnikhan1000]

All them mfs destroyed America keep voting dems and repubs 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@terrellbrannon8435]

This was amazing!

[@SupaDupaaFlyy]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2184">36:24</a> Imagine thinking getting a degree is the only way to get out of poverty. I grew up in the South Bronx and got out of there cause I developed a entrepreneurial mindset. The only reason I got of there was to stop thinking like a work slave and start thinking bigger.

[@KyanUganda-yh5bc]

Totally owning instead of working is the way

[@waitforit6524]

All that arrogance, and well all end up being food for worms.

[@rogermckenzie2569]

Now u know

[@waitforit6524]

@Zulu Immortal I agree, being poor on the other hand is not nice.

[@danieldoucet9121]

@Zulu Immortal That kind of thinking just further demonstrates that we are a species of primates who got lucky when ice melted over 10,000 years ago, created agriculture and allowed residual survival instincts to hijack civilization by becoming addicted to the conveniences we experience from generating electricity largely via the burning of fossil fuels. If you don't believe that wait till the power goes out for a couple days. Most people in cities and suburbs are royally screwed and money means the square root of fuck all.

[@TheWinterShadow]

""Look at us. Look at what they make you give."" - Jason Bourne

[@tradingbull007]

wow, very kowledgeable information, thank you

[@mariemacisaac7529]

I worked for a very rich company. My job stated that I must own a car. I lived in a cheep apartment with neighbours on welfare. I bought a used small car, I had $1.00 per day for food. Publish the wage of their lowest wage employee.

[@lightboy183]

Its one thing to be a rich man but it's another thing to be rich a man stepping on your fellowbrothers neck

[@seangotts6470]

the common man will only stand for somone steping on there neck for so long before they break the leg with a fucking steel bar

[@edwconr]

ayn rynd...dnyr nya...????

[@toddlavigne6441]

that's the problem....many of these billionaire are crooks that have indirectly ripped everyone off yet nobody punishes them.

[@allisonrogers1409]

The wealthy are under no obligation, by moral or other reason, to subsidize the poor.

[@tedcrilly46]

@allison rogers. well that depends. did this rich person benefit, cost free, from society during their formative years? If, for example, the richer person went to a publicly funded school then surely they owe at the very least the final net cost of the education they received from the public purse. (I would argue that they owe much more than just the cost, but rather also owe a legacy percentage of their entire net worth, since the education given was used to generate later profit). ...but surely the net cost at the very least. pay it back. now if you extend the same principal to every piece of social infrastructure which was used in the formation of their final being, ...and which they benefited from, cost free until the day they started earning....then the debt must be extremely high. remember, no free lunch. to get to the school required they use roads, pay up, plus their share of each minute of education will have to take in the associated cost of the teachers own use of the roads, the cost of electricity for the school...not just the units of power, but the associated cost of building the electrical network and any associated dams or reactors. All for YOUR education. If none of that was there, then you never would have been educated, and could not get rich. So pay YOUR share. Of the WHOLE cost. You're morally obliged to pay for what you got, and what you got has a trail of secondary and tertiary costs stretching waaaaayyy down the line in every direction. if there was so much as a plumber at your school, ... and you want complete moral freedom from society ..... and that plumber was educated at a public institution, then your use of that school includes a share of the cost of the education of the plumber. the plumber which your school benefited from, ...which you in turn benefited from. the rich suckled at societys tit just like everyone else. if anyone wants to be free of moral obligation then they must pay back every cent associated with societys influence on their life. From their share of the total cost of the maternal ward in which they were born, and the associated costs of doctor training for the staffing from which they benefited,... and their share of any sea port cost for imported medicine and equipment, to the future projected cost of any road laid which might bring them to the cemetery, and every traffic light en route, and the training of civil engineers to plan those roads, and their individual share of the defense and police and justice budget during their entire life time. Since they were protected by society the whole time. every single public service. from diplomats and foreign embassies, to the footpaths which any employee of theirs uses. and all associated costs pay every cent back. then there is no obligation.

[@pamelahomeyer748]

Morals have Shrugged, the church has Shrugged, the Billionaire's want you to owe everything to The Company Store. People who are addicted to making money I think that there's no such thing as enough

[@Food-Dharma]

Pamela Homeyer True, greed knows no limit.

[@prestontownsend862]

"After this I saw another angel descending from heaven with great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his glory. And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: "She has fallen! Babylon the Great has fallen, and she has become a dwelling place of demons and a place where every unclean spirit and every unclean and hated bird lurks! For because of the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, all the nations have fallen victim, and the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH became rich owing to the power of her shameless luxury." www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&docid=1101988036&srctype=wol&srcid=share&par

[@monnikhan1000]

They even tax the homeless now too it’s fucked up

[@BobbyGeneric145]

Good point Pamela... My only solace is that if the global economy takes a dump, Ill go Beyond Thunderdome immediately and the 1% will be targets for me and my minions!

[@smileygladhands]

Making money definitely gives off a large dopamine hit, some more than for others. Pretty similar to being addicted to drugs, there's no such thing as "enough".

[@knightnxk2906]

and the crazy thing wait for it is that these people are willing to decrease their paycheck and pay more in the cost of goods and bills... it's crazy.

[@sandralee9827]

According to Oxfam (2018) five people now own over half of the entire planet's wealth. Brilliant documentary.

[@TheFoolintherainn]

Stop shopping at Walmart - I live off the beaten path, and grow my own food - not hooked up to a utility company. This technology in my hand is about all I have of the modern world I live a healthy life, I don't work 59 hours a week to line others pockets, pay a middleman to survive. Folks have gotten lazy - and that's how the wealthy take over. Most Humans take the path of least resistance - pills, government dependency, drugs and alcohol, those are the paths of least resistance. China's serving them to you on a silver platter

[@johnbooth4174]

Could the background music be a little louder? Jeez! It's supposed to be "background" music, not "foreground" music!

[@Thugh130]

You worry about the wrong things

[@mytravls]

👏👏 copy that.

[@MahoganyConsulting]

Excellent documentary.

[@lhenaguevarra1044]

I'm glad this one is on YT

[@frederikawells5785]

Welcome to America 🇺🇸

[@Ai-he1dp]

The world is governed by fear and poverty. What a wonderful world.

[@kerripendragon4888]

It's an uncivilized system runned and promoted by narcs and psychos .

[@rockchalk9078]

"And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" : Hebrews <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="567">9:27</a> KJV

[@KingDanny9]

Things are way worse now. Even college grads are having a hard time making ends meet. Cost of living is higher than ever before, only millionaires can buy a house these days. Rent leases are getting more and more extreme, greed is destroying everything.

[@zcorpalpha2462]

This show is 10 years old 😂 2013 - 2023 🔥 NYC is not once it was

[@surplusdivision2461]

Being born poor is not your fault. If you choose to stay poor it is.

[@MusehanaH]

How does anyone chose to be poor? 🤔

[@THEWHYFoundation]

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[@Ida-Adriana]

Please allow CLOSED CAPTIONS on the video so deaf people can access this information too.

[@corneliakoller1914]

hug

[@happee4ever]

No. Bc trump has proved everyone wrong. PERIOD Rhinos & ALL DEMOCRATS still in office need to go. Past 4 previous Presidents were literally one in the same. Sick assholes . The reset button started on Nov 7th 2016.

[@margiecallahan3009]

wish I could afford to support this...

[@westsidegranny6100]

@@happee4ever guess who us really not a dem. BERNIE please do not include him with Joe F. Biden...he is old hat. BERNIE is not.

[@MeZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZ]

True journalism involves not showing a bias towards any one side. It's pretty clear "the why," violated this rule.

[@gbaum8272]

You mean like Fox News?

[@MeZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZzZ]

@@gbaum8272 ALL main stream media is trash.

[@ravindertalwar553]

WONDERFUL💋💋 PRESENTATION AND GREATLY EXCITED TO EXPLORE

[@denelson83]

Poverty isn't liberty, folks.

[@rareone5041]

denelson83 It’s not poverty if you don’t want much.

[@oracleoffinance7313]

Poverty is the other side of wealth. You cannot have wealthy people without poor people. You cannot have poor people without wealthy people. The world needs to awaken to these truths. The sad thing is that they have convinced poor people that they should want to become rich. Until we all abandon the goal of becoming rich there will always be poverty.

[@jackhasselhoff1021]

Oracle of Finance there could be middle class if you control populous control only problem is rich people are competitive and want every last crumb that's immoral and collapse if civilization if rich want slaves fuck that it's bad enough people are poor but complete enslavement I'd rather die and I phukn mean that shot stabbed and homeless to living a decent life paying taxes and you think imma see a cage or oppression try again

[@MultiSmartass1]

@@oracleoffinance7313 Wealth cannot exist without poverty. one requires the other. This is why it is a Zero Sum Gain. A few have great sums. Some gain. Most have zero.

[@KelligerP]

@@oracleoffinance7313 That's like saying water needs to be hoarded instead of running free so all can use what they need.

[@tonywilson6020]

just imagine if all americans were made to watch these kind of documentries befor the election

[@westsidegranny6100]

Guess BERNIE would win.

[@carolpritchard330]

But by it's very nature "forcing" people to do anything closes their minds . Now if we could get everyone to set aside their preconceived bias and actually participate ( vote) we could do something about this . Most everyone i know are not planning to vote because it does not matter who we vote for that's not who we'll get . A new President can't fix this ; it's going to have to be more drastic .

[@westsidegranny6100]

@@carolpritchard330 q

[@westsidegranny6100]

@@carolpritchard330 Carol P. Believe in BERNIE. He can heal this devastation.

[@philliplyn2692]

True facts hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work up 🙏🙏🙏🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲💪💪💪

[@mig7290]

Excellent documentary. I having seen it all yet but I'm making a comment bet that the movie Trading Places will be mentioned.

[@LMays-cu2hp]

Thank you for sharing.

[@Shawnne01]

Good video. Truth said well. Sad for most of us. We are all going backwards instead of forwards.

[@TheJummy7]

get a job. If that don't work, get two or three.

[@HypnoticHollywood]

If everybody just got a job then who would create the companies that cut the paychecks?

[@catherinegillan4404]

the thing with media is they tell you government figures and .........and we all know how spot on they are

[@bodycanvastattooshop6893]

jummy neww Ok, during the documentary it's said that the CEO, on average, used to make 20 times the working employee...but now in this age, make on average, 231 times the worker. If you're a hard enough worker, maybe you can get 230 more jobs to compensate.

[@HypnoticHollywood]

DeMarcus Shelborne Or he can figure out how to add 230 times more value to his company then he might be next up for the CEO spot if it opens up.

[@alexzhu4710]

it's really one of the most impact video I v ever seen. my father left me 9 years ago, that's the first time i met the death of my family numbers. i knew this feeling, and it changed my life

[@alexanderlinder1114]

I think it is important to always look out for yourself and don’t end up working in the bottom of industries too long. Work hard and demand hard for each and every one of us!

[@CedricSmith-un6vm]

Incredible, wow, I am glad/happy I am watching this.

[@GuyMercierLoL]

Make war on poverty, not the poor.

[@Tom_Samad]

I agree but sometimes poor people can be their own worst enemy through self-sabotage.

[@geordiewilkinson9752]

Tom Samand thats how trump got elected.

[@slimpickens9135]

Tom Samad not necessarily!! If everyone was rich and lived like kings then where would innovation and initiative come from

[@P.L.M.]

Yes, being born in a group that do not have connections is self sabotage.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

there is a solution to this insanity. watch my latest video - equalism 126: I Don't Want Your Money at this link - kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYWQfqCggdCie8U - then watch my entire equalism lecture series in sequence. remember - NO hero will swoop down and save us. WE MUST ACT! NOTHING will change until YOU change and take action. ALL non-predators are welcome to join the equalist movement and watch my channel!

[@MissBanks777]

I like how the fundamentals of the game of monopoly was included in the beginning... great analogy of how the rich are lucky and become arrogant. They then care less about the poor...

[@nateosborn9221]

Do the poor and the rich not think the same of each other?

[@JR-hw7bk]

@@nateosborn9221 No. But if the poor did it would be more than justified.

[@nateosborn9221]

@@JR-hw7bk elaborate if u don’t mind

[@JR-hw7bk]

@@nateosborn9221 You sound like you're trying to justify how the ultra rich in this country treat the poor by claiming that the poor are just as resentful. Although a relatively small number of the poor are opening their eyes to the truth, the great majority still idolize the rich and still believe that if they just work hard they'll be one of them too.

[@nateosborn9221]

@@JR-hw7bk well im not talking about how everyone views the rich or the poor, but I was curious and posed a question to think about, but i do feel like the ultra rich and ultra poor have some resentment to each other, would you explore what you mean by truth as well?

[@darrenneil4533]

Good stuff!

[@josephewoo9064]

nice one

[@sideshowdrummer]

The rich have all the power. The rich will never care about the middle class or poor.

[@tyronerowesr2858]

#ADOS IS OWED WE WANT OUR CHECK NOW. DR KING DREAM WILL COME TRUE WHEN WE GET THAT CHECK. THE BLACK VETERAN SC.

[@TheNoirAlien]

The middle class are delusional with dreams of becoming the Elite someday, because of their skin color smh

[@westsidegranny6100]

Sideshowdrummer. And one thing I have noticed about the rich, beside being cheap, they are way competitive with each other. Kinda like keeping up with the Jones. I once lived in s ghetto. My son hated that school system . In fact he was 10 percent top SAT and refused ivy league. Anyhow They were as ll social climbers. The women dumped their babies to play bridge and tennis and when the kids were old enough they all had t v in their rooms. Dump again. Jr league, you know the type. Anyhow I was a fish out of water. When we split I bought a house in a mixed area where I could actually breath. Guess i dislike " the rich,"

[@fasteddylove-muffin6415]

@white What white said. They have no incentive to care about the middle class or poor. Period. They live in worlds of their own making.

[@sharoncrawford3042]

Who cares. Just live life and be happy for what you have.

[@broadwayblack5782]

My dad has been in banking for 12 years now he works for a PE firm. The corruption is true but when you're in that circle of people it's like a bubble and you don't care about what's outside of it or who isn't in it. I live in Lower Manhattan in SoHo

[@mns8732]

My brother was part of the 1 percent. Then he went to jail.

[@spurs541]

How long he get

[@elizdonovan5650]

Interesting. Good view. Recommend watching. ☘️🌝🌲

[@tomzeman5964]

Cap on personal wealth $365 million rest is taxed for poor & middle class

[@rawgab4439]

BS ..Never works !!

[@annabelenko1611]

80% tax over 100 million.

[@lookup2hope821]

I have to figure out a way to live off grid!!

[@carolpritchard330]

It's not as hard as you imagine, just depends on how far off grid you want to go.....

[@paulmackiewicz9836]

You mean life is unfair, and some people start out with less than others? Welcome to reality. Get educated. Learn a trade. My grandparents came to the US with nothing and received no assistance. Everyone of their children were successes. But everyone worked 7 days a week. You do your best. There is no guarantee.

[@farinshore8900]

The truth is that getting to the top rewards ruthlessness more than hard work.

[@youngoldbones]

All I can say about these ruthless rich men, is that life is short, and God is Just. They will reap what they sow.

[@helengilmour5276]

Sadly some of us who don't believe that would like a bit of visible justice in the here and now and action not a rewards scheme that purports to address injustice after death......... opiate idea of the masses. Keeps folks from revolting.

[@youngoldbones]

Helen Gilmour rest assured it is not an "opiate" Be glad for Christianity Helen, it is the teachings of Jesus Christ which assures women equality in the eyes of God and therefore women are treated on par with men in the Western world, gender roles not withstanding. Elsewhere in the world women are treated as having no rights comparable to a man, even onto death. One only has to look to their belief structure to see the cause.

[@helengilmour5276]

Youngoldbones I would have to agree with a very loud and strong YES!!!

[@youngoldbones]

Helen Gilmour Rather than being an opiate, the Bible dispenses truth. If the Bible had been followed to the letter, there would never have been a slave trade in the US. Exodus 21:16 Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be put to death, whether the victim has been sold or is still in the kidnapper's possession. Since none of the slaves from Africa had neither sold themselves or their kin into slavery (to pay off debt or to survive) nor had they attacked the United States and were taken slaves as enemy combatants. Instead they were all kidnapped into Slavery. As such it was Bible believing Christians who fought to bring an end to slavery both here in the US and the UK. People who behave as Jesus Christ taught help bring the light of truth into the world. Yes there are bad people, but unless they commit crimes through which we can prosecute them, we will just have to leave it to God to punish them. That will be enough.

[@youngoldbones]

Helen Gilmour I'm glad you agree. Human attempts to follow Christ through "religion" are not perfect, because humans are imperfect. But if we keep our focus on Jesus and how he would have us behave we can create a better world. The more Christ is pushed out of our society, the more the light will vanish from our culture.

[@darkkiss7247]

One of my favorite punk T-shirts from back in the day said, "Eat The Rich."

[@debraashley8831]

Speak with the folks you elected to represent you - they seem to be doing very well, financially.

[@Johnny-zv1vp]

What is the name of the credits music at the end? So peaceful.