Or if it is really true that the next generation down is well and truly shafted? In the UK, Royal Bank of Scotland, having covered itself in glory in the Libor interest-rate fixing scandal, is currently contemplating bonuses for its investment banking division of 250m, according to reports last week. but all the way back to 1913, when the income tax. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance., The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house, How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I ask and get a classic, understated, deadpan but not entirely unoptimistic Reichian reply. The politics of hate. In contrast, most people today successfully live up to the capitalistconsumerist ideal. In both cases, the year following the peak was marked by a financial crash. Whatever man allows his mind to dwell upon the imprint his imagination has foolishly taken of women, is fanning the flames within himself -- and, since the woman knows nothing about it, she is not to blame. On the one hand, this is a film that could be useful for undergraduate courses in political economy, globalization, and contemporary American sociology; also, even five years after its release it remains timely and relevantespecially as the basic problems of 2008 have not been resolved, and in some respects have worsened. Meanwhile, the government has allowed the super-rich, the "one per cent", to take more of the nation's wealth. And nobody was telling it. Robert Reich. Ones position in relation to the means of production, whether one owns capital, or one only has labour power to rent out, appears to be too Marxist a way of organizing information for Reich. 78 matching entries found. He has absolute integrity. "Where America leads, sadly the rest of the world follows. Edgar Bronfman. And he and Kornbluth go to extraordinary lengths not to mention the word "Sweden" or "Japan" and barely even "Germany". (This documentary review forms part of the political economy series on Zero Anthropology. America could not succeed, said Obama, "when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it". Austerity has cut a swath through the country. The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. Globalization and technology, Reich maintains, havent really reduced the number of jobs available to Americans. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage. - Qingrong Ma. A socialist." WebDirected by Jacob Kornbluth A well-done and enlightening documentary on income inequality in America featuring Robert Reich and his take on this deepening crisis. Equality of opportunity is not enough. He was one of the initial investors in Amazon, a business of which he's "incredibly proud", but he points out that on revenues in the last three months of 2012 of $21bn (13bn), Amazon employs just 65,600 people. for income concentration, both of them in which the top 1%. Who wouldn't want to know what's going on? And yet, as he tells me cheerfully on the phone from his home in California, "It just keeps getting worse! 32 We've seen it on television., If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?, Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence., The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed or find a still greater man to marry her. Its economy shrinking." Birling treats Eric as if he knows nothing. Both men and women would now work longer hours. Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. "It's my duty to keep labour costs down". And I don't quite know how they managed to make this law in their favour, or who exactly it was who gave them a greater license to sin than is allowed to us; and if the fault is common to both sexes (as they can hardly deny), why should the blame not be as well? "Their wages, their jobs, getting by. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride. "I've always thought that kitchen-table economics is the most important topic to most people," says Reich. Be the first to contribute! $j("#facebookRegPrompt").hide(); Gender equality is critical to the development and peace of every nation.. Welcome back. His father had a stroke when Kornbluth was five and died six years later. 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.. One is the concept of globalizationwhich suffers from a glut of competing and divergent definitions, a true amoeba word as others have said. And that creates a debt bubble. This documentary should be played for school children as early as eight grade. Jesus speaks more about the gap between rich and poor than he does about heaven and hell.. 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. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men. Though it too can lend itself to some good comedy, I generally have little use for statements such as these, as spoken by Reich in his film: Of all developed nations today, the United States has the most unequal distribution of income and wealth by far. Explore our collection of motivational and famous quotes by authors you know and love. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.. 1. The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. "These girls aren't cheap labour - they're people". And years later, he discovered that one of them had travelled down to Mississippi to register voters and had been tortured and then murdered. But he never has. , I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence., Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation., Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison., It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. It is not the wealth it is the abuse of wealth. It's probably a shocking statistic for Americans to hear. 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). Web27 "Equality For All" Quotes "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." This is the 50th anniversary, of course, of the 1963 March on Washington, as well. There is just a human race scientifically, anthropologically. If he can't change the world, maybe his students will. On paper it is, indeed, a terrible idea. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Just not in the way many thought it would. As for money corrupting politics, this is a long-standing problem in the US, going back at least to the 1800s. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. He is an intellectual heavyweight, a veteran policymaker, a seasoned political hand, and yet he also has the delivery of a standup comedian. Martin Luther King, Jr. But seeing his example, the way that he has fought this fight for so many years has been an absolute inspiration to me. But then "I grew up poor. Its not upward mobility. At one point in the film, Reich states: There is no official definition of the middle class. The three decades that came after the end of World War II, is the period that he calls the Great Prosperity and it is this which Reich would like to see the US regain. 28. Reichs solutions are not difficult to apprehend: increase wages, reduce costs of higher education, regulate the housing and financial markets, and keep the corporate oligarchy out of electoral politics. There is a deep desire to change the power structure.. "Something happened in the late 1970s," we hear him tell his Berkeley class. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. Some inequality is inevitable, he says. $j("#generalRegPrompt").hide(); Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. 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. is taking home. I n one sense, Inequality for All is absolutely the film of the moment. Reichs basic assumptions are, to identify a few, that it is a good thing for the US to regain the socio-economic position it enjoyed during the Great Prosperity, and that consumption should not be questioned or criticized. We fell victim to what Reich calls "the huge lie". And yet what sucker would try to make a film about it? You don't remember the Carter administration, do you?" more on this quote . "How much money do you have in your checking account?" Reich begins by pointing out that. most US manufacturing began to relocate overseas; there was a revolution in information, communication, and transport technologies; there was a greater move to deregulate finance and the economy; and. It is essentially an elaborate remix of lectures given by Reich in his Wealth and Poverty class at UC Berkeley, with ample illustrations, interviews with workers and CEOs, and some of Reichs life history and memories of working in the Clinton administration. There is no one to protect them.". And government is bad. Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.. "Just let me finish, Eric. The United States of America is a nation where people are not united because of those three glaring frailties: racism, injustices and inequities. Someone falls in love first. Let's pass it on to somebody else. Kornbluth asks Erika from off camera as she drives her daughter to school. 28. "It's pretty little. 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