Total *beep* vanity project. No surprise it was produced by non other than the director and star of the documentary. If you're reading this Jamie, I gotta say, your own *beep* must taste reeally good doesn't it.
shareI think this film may have touched a nerve with you.
If you're reading this, Jamie, I applaud what you've done. This film is very fair, and very thought-provoking. I hope you know that you can rest assured that you have made something of substance, and I admire the result for its contribution in a very important American dialog.
How can you know if the film is fair or not.
You are given little vignettes of ideas, but you have no idea if they are
really true, and if they are to what extent, and if they are not ... even
one or two of them, it sort of impeaches the filmmaker's integrity
doesn't it?
This is a bunch of people talking that likely have no real contact
with what is going on, how decisions are made. This is all hidden
and remains hidden after this movie.
It kind of is a vanity project.
"I'm 1%. I care. Other's don't." There's not much outside of that. There's no insight to why there's such a disparity. Where his growth of wealth came from.
If he had dug deeper on why he's getting richer, and richer every year, and follow that money. He could have easily made a case that it's the hardworking middle class that made all those wealth for him. And the middle class deserve their fair share of the fruits of their hard work.
But, he doesn't. He has no clue of what's going on.
He could have also projected this disparity far into the future and conclude it's going to end up so bad, that a radical revolution would be inevitable, because 1% would end up owning all of Earth's infrastructure, communication services, energy, and financial sectors, everything tat we need and pay for.
@flickfix He could have also projected this disparity far into the future and conclude it's going to end up so bad, that a radical revolution would be inevitable...
The documentary showed an economist, Edward Wolff, talking about armed rebellions in Peru, Venezuela, Columbia, and Brazil due to wealth inequality. Wolff went on to say that he wouldn't rule out an armed rebellion also happening in America for the same reason.
So an economist projected this disparity far into the future - IMO that's better than having Jamie Johnson do it.