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Do you think rich people watched or have watched this movie?


I was thinking , if I show this movie to really rich people.
what would they say about it?
are they willing to watch it? in the first place ...
Do rich people,,,really think...on the other people...?
will this movie make a difference if any rich watch it?

Cheers

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if you watched the movie then you know which were the rich guy's arguments.
you will get the same reactions. if any.
you cant teach people, especially with such flawed characters.
people dont change, they hardly evolve. any argument or input you give them will be filtered through their own experience shaped, perception and interpretation filters.

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Oh hi. I'm not rich, but if some *beep* hit my car, refused to pay, threw my *beep* on the pool, kidnapped me and then gave me a speech about how *beep* up I am... Trust me, I wouldn't go to the cops. I'd go to the *beep* mob.

So, the difference between the very rich and the middle class, is just how violent your vengeance will be. Nobody with a stable job would side with the youngsters.

And for the record, I'm 30, went to college, paid all my debts at 29. I live well, but without luxury. I do charity work, donate to the poor and give free classes to micro entrepreneurs who can't afford it. But if you break into my home and steal or break my PS3... Oh man, you'll be the one calling the cops.

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Do you think rich people watched or have watched this movie?
Well, I just quite don't know how to answer these two completely different questions.
Do you think rich people watched ... this movie?
don't think so
... wait, the producer has

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will this movie make a difference if any rich watch it?

I highly doubt it, when I was watching The Edukators the tactic of displacing rich people's items in order to mentally taunt them felt flawed as it would never make radical changes they aimed for.

"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not".

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I'm quite sure some "rich" (what's the definition here?) people have seen this.

Of course, not all rich are equal. Are we talking about obscenely rich who were born into it and never worked? People who started okay but work hard for money? People who started with nothing but worked even harder for money? Is comfortably living rich, because you earn enough and keep your expenditure low? Or do you mean easily earning more than you need?

Now it's been many years since I've seen this, so I could be wrong, but I don't think the point of the film was "rich = bad" though. It's complex. The rich guy had arguments and points. He changed his mind about things when he got older. The "poor" people (and they are still better off than much of the world's population!) had some interesting ideas but at the same time they had many negative traits of their own. They didn't have any real solutions and they were naive.

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Rich people made that movie!

At least Daniel Brühl may have had some 100000 Euro on his bank account at that time.

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haha good point

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Wealthy but not rich.

And why wouldnt rich ppl watch it? Im sure thats nothing new to them either.
Everybody knows about it and yet most live their lifes like before... otherwise consumption would look different. Be it meat, clothes, whatever.

Whom here knows about the awful intensive lifestock farming and about inhuman treatment of workers and child labor and has changed his shopping behaviour?
You dont need to be rich.

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Lincoln Lee: I lost a partner.
Peter Bishop: I lost a universe!

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A few might have, like Nick Hanauer and Warren Buffett, but most of them probably not.

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