Park Avenue: money, power and the American dream

 The monopoly game's been rigged.

from Why Poverty?

This powerful documentary explores the process by which America went from a country of mostly-middle-class people to a society of a "Grand Canyon divide" between the very wealthy and everyone else. Social psychologists explain the results of experiments which demonstrate how the monied feel entitled and deserving of wealth, while their empathy declines. The Horatio Alger story of pulling yourself up by the bootstraps is becoming less and less likely. Big money rigs the rules via lobbyists and right-wing think tanks who actually write legislation for state and federal governments. In the cross-hairs of the one per-cent? Public sector unions.

 "Making money equals freeedom–freedom from any responsibility whatever."

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