A couple of reminders from "Capitalism: A Love Story"

[young_at_heart]

"The World is dividing into two blocs - the Plutonomy and the rest."

"At some point it is likely that labor will fight back against the rising profit share of the rich and there will be a political backlash against the rising wealth of the rich."

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. This film should be watched in every high school and college in America.

[gateley]

2. And in the Senate and the House of Representatives. nt

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. We'd first have to tie them down like Alex in A Clockwork Orange.

[gateley]

8. The visual brings a smile to my face. nt

[Clyde39]

4. This is a word we should all learn more about

Plutonomy is one of the new "code words" the uber-rich use to maintain their "high stations" in life.

[young_at_heart]

5. 'Dead Peasant Insurance' was also revealed in the movie

Can you believe company bigwigs actually called it Dead Peasant Insurance? It's the practice of companies taking out secret life insurance policies on their low-level employees, with the benefits paid out to the company upon the employee's death, even if they no longer work at the company."

[Norrin Radd]

7. They were probably inspired by Gogol:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Souls

Though, obviously, he didn't intend for it to be a "how-to" manual.

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. KICK

[young_at_heart]

9. Billions for the bankers

"Capital must protect itself in every possible manner by combination and legislation. Debts must be collected, bonds and mortgages must be foreclosed as rapidly as possible. When, through a process of law, the common people lose their homes they will become more docile and more easily governed through the influence of the strong arm of government, applied by a central power of wealth under control of leading financiers. This truth is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of Capital to govern the world. By dividing the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance. Thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves what has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished."...

USA Banker's Magazine, August 25 1924

[Clyde39]

10. KICK