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[Wendy] What did
the Enlightenment promise us?

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It promised us freedom

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on the basis of being able
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and thus govern ourselves.

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That was really the premise.

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That if we were released
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of myth and tradition...

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released to be able to think,
and reason,

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and discover what was
true for ourselves...

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that that was
the source of our freedom.

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But something happened

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at the end of the 20th century,

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which was this new way

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of thinking about society

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and human beings as a market.

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What does it mean
to rule yourself

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if we are all meant
to think of ourselves

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as commodities,

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and everything is marketized?

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What's really tragic
about the economization

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of every aspect of life

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is that we're really seeing
the Enlightenment dream

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come to
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where the mandates
of a financialized society

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all but extinguish
the real freedom

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to make yourself
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[narrator]
<i>In the early 2000s,</i>

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<i>we made a film, The Corporation.</i>

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<i>We argued that large,
publicly traded corporations</i>

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<i>are programmed relentlessly
to pursue profit and growth,</i>

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<i>and have become the dominant
institutions of our time.</i>

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<i>We showed that
the corporation is deemed</i>

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<i>by law to be a person</i>

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<i>that has the same rights
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<i>sometimes even more.</i>

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<i>So, we posed the question,</i>

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<i>if the corporation
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<i>what kind of person is it?</i>

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<i>We analyzed it the way</i>

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<i>a psychiatrist would
analyze a patient.</i>

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<i>We found his character to be</i>

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<i>pathologically self-interested.</i>

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<i>Now, with the world in crisis,</i>

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<i>climate change,
spiraling inequality,</i>

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<i>a global pandemic...</i>

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<i>we re-examine the corporation,</i>

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<i>how it's changed,
how it's changing our world...</i>

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<i>and how it's changing
our very sense of who we are.</i>

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?

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<i>To begin this story,
we take you back to the 2000s.</i>

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<i>At that time,
the corporation was in crisis.</i>

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<i>This meeting will come to order.</i>

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<i>This is a case of America's
largest corporate bankruptcy.</i>

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[narrator] <i>Enron and WorldCom</i>
<i>have collapsed</i>

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<i>in corporate scandals
of unprecedented magnitude.</i>

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<i>Corporations were
being called out</i>

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<i>for malfeasance
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<i>and the environment.</i>

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<i>Around the same time,</i>

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<i>globalization was sparking
worldwide protests</i>

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<i>against the growing power</i>

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<i>and impunity of the corporation.</i>

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<i>And our first film
had just charged</i>

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<i>that corporations
are institutional psychopaths.</i>

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[John Coyne] I think calling
corporations psychopaths...

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absolutely had an impact,

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and I can say that for myself.

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When... when I had to consume

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that was...

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that was interesting,

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to use a very soft word.

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Has it influenced it?
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Are we on the road to recovery?

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I hope... I hope we are.

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About 2005, we started to see

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suddenly making
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Promises such as
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zero waste to landfill,

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zero deforestation,
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A real and significant shift.

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[narrator] <i>Since that shift,</i>
<i>corporations have mounted</i>

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<i>a major charm offensive...</i>

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<i>rebranding themselves
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<i>the entire capitalist system
as having changed,</i>

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<i>having evolved into
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[John] I think there is
genuinely a different dialogue

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that's taking place
about corporations

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and the role
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That cult of shareholder value

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has seen its day
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for how companies
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[narrator] <i>Wait,</i>
<i>what did he say?</i>

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- [high-pitched rewinding]
- That cult of shareholder value

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has seen its day
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for how companies
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[narrator] <i>This idea</i>
<i>that making money</i>

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<i>for shareholders is no longer</i>

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<i>the corporation's only goal,</i>

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<i>it's the essence
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<i>the story that corporations
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[Klaus] What is the purpose
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Is it just to make money?

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[narrator]
<i>This is Klaus Schwab,</i>

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<i>the man who first came up
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<i>of a new kind of corporation.</i>

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Companies recognize

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that they have
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how we combine

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or how we blend moneymaking

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and social responsibility.

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[narrator]
<i>To advance his ideas,</i>

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<i>Schwab built the world's most
important annual gathering</i>

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<i>of corporate titans
and world leaders.</i>

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?

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[Sandra] Every year,
Davos in Switzerland

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hosts one of the most
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of the global super elite.

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It's kind of the first stop
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yearly migration route.

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People who are successful
and make a lot of money

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are a dime a dozen.

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But these are the people
who are the most successful.

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[narrator] <i>But Davos</i>
<i>isn't only a meeting place</i>

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<i>for the super elite.</i>

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<i>It's also where corporate chiefs</i>

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<i>and government leaders
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<i>to promote the story
of the new corporation...</i>

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<i>that corporations
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<i>no longer greedy and selfish,</i>

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<i>but poised to help make
the world a better place.</i>

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<i>Sandra Navidi
is a Davos insider...</i>

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<i>and author of a book</i>

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<i>about the world's
most powerful players.</i>

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[Sandra] These financial elites
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and in some instances
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those of democratically elected
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[narrator]
<i>This is Jamie Dimon.</i>

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<i>He heads the biggest bank
in the United States,</i>

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<i>and is a leading voice
for corporate America.</i>

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So, the Jamie Dimon reception,

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there will be some introduction
to the clients, right?

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[narrator]
<i>This is Sanjay Jain,</i>

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<i>one of Dimon's top executives
at JPMorgan Chase.</i>

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<i>He's advising
a prospective client.</i>

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No, but I knew that
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because Davos is the place
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It's insane what happens here.

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[narrator] <i>And here's</i>
<i>the client, Bibop Gresta.</i>

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Hi, Bibop Gresta.
Very nice to meet you.

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[narrator] <i>He's looking</i>
<i>for investors in his company</i>

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<i>that's developing
a transportation capsule</i>

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<i>that travels
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[Bibop] Sorry.

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I'm sorry. Excuse me.

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Hi, it's Bibop Gresta,

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Chairman of Hyperloop.

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[indistinct chatter]

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Oh, good, yeah, I saw
some of your colleagues.

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Thank you.
Good luck today.

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[Sanjay] In 2009,

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when the financial
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JPMorgan,
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picked Detroit as the one city

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in the entire country
we were going to save.

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So, you need to say to Jamie,

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"I just want you to know
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We care about Detroit
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- That's it.
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- Okay, got it?
- Got it. Got it.

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[Jamie] Here he is.
How are you?

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[Bibop] Jamie,
thank you for inviting me.

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You going to like,
a black tie tonight?

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- Well, yeah. They said...
- You just dress like this.

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- [Bibop] How are you tonight?
- You guys have

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- something in common.
- Yes.

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[Jamie]
You were in a rock band.

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I don't know what
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I discovered
a person that installed

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a very great culture
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they're starting programs trying

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creating a special program
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reconstruct it completely,
I wasn't expecting that.

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I knew what
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and all the efforts
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And it's not public yet.

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But we are...
we signed a deal with Ohio

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to actually build
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You know,
we are trying to contribute,

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follow your example.

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Think it's a very
important project.

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It's a big, big year for us.

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It's exciting.

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I'll see you in a couple weeks.

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Okay, okay, thank you.
Thank you very much.

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[Klaus] Davos is a place
of interaction, of dialogue.

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We look at the ecosystem
of what's happening <i>...</i>

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but always with
a sense of responsibility

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for us.

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And us,
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not just one person.

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I think at the end, we are all

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a globally
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[Valerie] So, here in Davos,
we debated the motion,

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"Is the business of business
still just business?"

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And interestingly,
more than 80% said "no."

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In today's transformative age,

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business has a wider
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We're in a new age
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You need to give back.

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You need to be
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Society is demanding
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both public and private,

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serve a social purpose.

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[Valerie] There is
a new possibility

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we can imagine
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It takes courageous leadership,

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and it takes people
who get it here,

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and who get it here,
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that life is short and precious,

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and if we're in positions
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that we should use that
to help shift the paradigm

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and the possibility
of what it means to be

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a business on the planet,

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and what it means to be
a human being.

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[narrator] <i>It all</i>
<i>sounds so good,</i>

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<i>this talk of a new
kind of corporation...</i>

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<i>in Davos and everywhere else.</i>

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For many businesses,

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the commitment
to the triple bottom line

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of people, profit,
and planet, is real.

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The problem is
the capitalist system

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as a whole
is not committed to that.

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[Elizabeth] There are
CEOs and corporate boards

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attempting to do good
in the world.

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They clearly are.

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But the notion that
there is anything inherently

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socially responsible
about a corporation

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is a counter-intuitive
proposition.

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By law, the corporation
exists for one reason:

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to return benefits
to shareholders.

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There is no such thing

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as corporate
social responsibility.

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Corporations
don't have the leeway

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to sacrifice shareholder returns

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for doing whatever they want

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or whatever they believe
is socially responsible.

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[narrator] <i>What then do we make</i>

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<i>of the corporations' new image...</i>

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<i>of the claim
corporations have changed?</i>

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<i>Since our last film</i>

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<i>the American Psychiatric
Association has added</i>

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<i>a new item
to its diagnostic checklist.</i>

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[John Browne] You always
have to come back

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as a leader to purpose.

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Why are we here?
Why are we doing business?

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And we want to do business
for the long term.

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Values are part
of a purpose of a company.

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[narrator] <i>John Browne</i>
<i>is a leading voice</i>

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<i>in today's
new corporation movement.</i>

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When he was CEO of the world's

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second largest oil company,

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he professed deep
environmental beliefs

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while achieving record profits
and meteoric growth.

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You, basically for
the first time,

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an oil company executive,
stepped forward to say

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global warming is a problem.

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It set BP apart.

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I think people
are much more convinced now,

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at least around the world,

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that there is a real case

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to take precautionary
action to avoid

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carbon concentrations
going to beyond

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a critical level
in the atmosphere.

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My sense is that John Browne's
concerns are genuine.

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His interest
in the environment is genuine.

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His concern for workers
and for people's safety,

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theoretically, is genuine.

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But those desires are just
inherently conflicting

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with the need to make money
because turning a profit

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for those corporations
is always going to come first.

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[man 1 on radio]
<i>I need an ambulance</i>

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<i>and EMTs right now!</i>

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[man 2 on radio]
<i>There's people trapped</i>

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<i>in the trailer, they need help.</i>

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[John Browne] In 2005,

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when I was CEO of BP,

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we had a terrible tragedy.

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Fifteen people died

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in a refinery explosion
in Texas City.

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[news anchor] <i>This is the</i>
<i>second time people have died</i>

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<i>at this plant
in less than a year.</i>

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<i>In that time, it has been fined</i>

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<i>for more than
fourteen safety violations.</i>

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[John Browne] All of us at BP
are very deeply saddened

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by the loss of life and injuries

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suffered by so many people.

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After Texas City,
we were at pains,

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at pains to say

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safety must never be compromised

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for financial performance.

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We were very concerned

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to make sure that safety,
operational safety,

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process safety, took primacy.

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It's ridiculous for John Browne

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to suggest that
he had adequately addressed

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process safety in the wake
of the Texas City refinery.

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It was less than a year later

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his company had
a spill in Alaska

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on oil pipelines which,
it turns out,

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were not maintained.

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[news anchor] <i>Technicians</i>
<i>at Prudhoe Bay</i>

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<i>warned it was understaffed,</i>

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<i>lacking in routine
maintenance, leak prone,</i>

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<i>and vulnerable to explosion.</i>

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[Abrahm] There was
a specific decision

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to save money
by not running corrosion tests

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in those pipelines.

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It's the same
kind of thing that led

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to the Texas City explosion.

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[narrator] <i>Yet BP claimed</i>
<i>it had learned its lesson</i>

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<i>from Texas City.</i>

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[John Browne]
In 2007 I left BP

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and I thought, "This is great.

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This company
has got it."

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[explosion roaring]

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What was so depressing to me

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was that yet again,

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people died.

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And while I wasn't there

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and I didn't know
what had happened...

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I could see some
terrible echoes of history.

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[explosion roaring]

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[narrator]
<i>While John Browne had left BP,</i>

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<i>some things hadn't changed.</i>

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[Abrahm]
The poor decisions that led

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to the Deepwater Horizon
echo and track

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what John Browne
instituted in the company

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a decade or two before it.

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John Browne pushed
the largest cost cut

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that I've heard of
at any corporation

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in any kind of industry,
not just the oil industry.

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You can't do that
without cutting corners

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on maintenance of equipment,

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without pushing timetables.

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And that's the culture
that he built.

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[soft, pulsating
orchestral instrumental]

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When given that choice
between doing good

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and doing well for your company,

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the fact that
publicly held companies

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have an obligation to deliver
to their shareholders,

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making those profits will
always be the highest priority.

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Those trend lines are just
headed in opposite directions,

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and I think they always will be.

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?

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[Jamie] We are a,
just to make it clear,

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a for-profit institution.

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- [audience laughing]
- And we are making

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an investment in Detroit.

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[narrator]
<i>Remember Jamie Dimon</i>

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<i>from JPMorgan Chase?</i>

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<i>He's the CEO
who wants to save Detroit.</i>

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<i>Detroit was devastated
by the 2008 financial crisis.</i>

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<i>A third of its homes
were abandoned.</i>

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<i>Over the next five years,</i>

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<i>it spiraled towards
rock bottom.</i>

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[news anchor]
<i>When the 2008 financial crisis</i>

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<i>hammered North America,</i>

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<i>long suffering Detroit
was hit especially hard.</i>

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<i>Detroit is officially
the largest city in history</i>

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<i>to file for bankruptcy.</i>

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[narrator] <i>After bankruptcy,</i>
<i>Jamie Dimon</i>

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<i>and his bank stepped in
with vast amounts of capital.</i>

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- Why Detroit?
- So, obviously

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it's good for the bank,
but... but it's part humanity,

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trying to help your city
and your people

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come back and recover
from what had been

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basically a terrible 20 years.

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[Robert] Jamie Dimon
wants to rescue Detroit,

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but what's misleading
is he wants America

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to believe that he and,
by implication,

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JPMorgan Chase Bank,

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are somehow the good guys,

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that they are leading us
in a direction

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we ought to be
going in without...

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without any memory

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that he and the bank caused,

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in part, a huge recession

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that wrecked
the lives of millions,

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tens of millions of people.

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[reporter 1] <i>At one point,</i>

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<i>the market fell
as if down a well.</i>

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[reporter 2] <i>The NASDAQ,</i>
<i>everything and more</i>

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<i>has been completely wiped out.</i>

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[reporter 3]
<i>Three of the five biggest</i>

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<i>independent firms on Wall Street</i>

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<i>have now disappeared.</i>

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[George W. Bush]
Major sectors of America's

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financial system
are at risk of shutting down.

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[narrator] <i>The 2008</i>
<i>financial crisis</i>

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<i>was the result
of corporate misconduct</i>

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<i>and reckless speculation.</i>

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<i>That malfeasance
nearly destroyed</i>

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<i>the global economy.</i>

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It cost the American economy

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about $20 trillion in terms
of lost housing value,

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lost productivity
from the recession.

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Millions of people
lost their jobs.

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Millions of others were
thrown out of their homes.

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People were really hurt.

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[woman sobbing]

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[newscaster]
The nation's biggest bank,

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JPMorgan Chase,
has agreed to a $13 billion

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settlement with
the US government

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for misleading investors
and mortgage agencies

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about the safety
of mortgage backed securities

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it sold ahead
of the financial crisis.

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That would be the largest
fine ever paid

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by a single bank
to settle civil charges,

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yet doesn't even resolve
a possible criminal case.

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[narrator] <i>But JPMorgan</i>
<i>Chase's caring image</i>

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<i>helped mask
its self-interested nature.</i>

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[Anand] I think
we have to acknowledge

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that as a kind of
private sector propaganda,

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it has been
remarkably successful.

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[narrator] <i>This is</i>
<i>Anand Giridharadas,</i>

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<i>an expert
on how corporate elites</i>

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<i>cloak profit making in virtue.</i>

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When you have someone
like Jamie Dimon <i>...</i>

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who is running an institution

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that paid fines...

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for its role in helping to cause

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the financial crisis...

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that wiped out communities,

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we're talking about obliterated

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certain communities...

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when you have someone like that

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who then turns around <i>...</i>

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and says that it saved Detroit,

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what's so amazing <i>...</i>

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is this kind of two-step...

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that this plutocratic group

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has been able to pull off.

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You first create conditions

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in which people
in a city like Detroit

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are shattered
by your speculation decisions.

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And then you have the gall

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to market yourself
to those folks

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as their... as their Christ.

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We were here
in the darkest moments

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for everybody at all time.

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We didn't run, we didn't hide.

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And we figure, you know,
if we can help in Detroit,

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you can help anywhere.

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[Anand] We participate

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in this game...

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that allows the very people <i>...</i>

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abetting harm to our society,

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or actively harming our society,

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to reinvent themselves
as saviors.

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[audience applauding]

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[narrator] <i>But that's</i>
<i>part of a larger game</i>

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<i>corporations now play:</i>

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<i>making feelgood promises
with bright smiles...</i>

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<i>appearing to be different
than what they really are.</i>

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[birds chirping]

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<i>If the new corporation
had a playbook...</i>

490
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<i>what might it look like?</i>

491
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<i>What would its key plays be?</i>

492
00:23:05,551 --> 00:23:08,596
[eerie orchestral instrumental]

493
00:23:13,518 --> 00:23:15,019
[reporter] I am here
with Bill Gates.

494
00:23:15,144 --> 00:23:17,397
I'd love you
to tell our readers what...

495
00:23:17,522 --> 00:23:19,273
what the heck
creative capitalism is.

496
00:23:19,399 --> 00:23:21,776
Can we take some of the caring

497
00:23:21,901 --> 00:23:24,278
and innovation power,
the resources

498
00:23:24,404 --> 00:23:26,697
of corporations
and get them to focus

499
00:23:26,823 --> 00:23:29,784
more of that
on the needs of the poorest?

500
00:23:32,328 --> 00:23:33,788
[narrator] <i>Bill Gates</i>
<i>put his idea</i>

501
00:23:33,913 --> 00:23:35,915
<i>of creative capitalism to work...</i>

502
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:38,751
<i>pouring billions
into investments in Africa,</i>

503
00:23:38,876 --> 00:23:41,045
<i>including
a multi-million dollar stake</i>

504
00:23:41,170 --> 00:23:42,588
<i>in a start-up company called</i>

505
00:23:42,713 --> 00:23:44,507
<i>Bridge International Academies.</i>

506
00:23:44,632 --> 00:23:48,428
- Good morning, class.
- Good morning, Teacher.

507
00:23:48,553 --> 00:23:50,763
- [teacher] How are you?
- We are fine,

508
00:23:50,888 --> 00:23:53,182
thank you, Teacher,
and how are you?

509
00:23:53,307 --> 00:23:55,059
[teacher] I'm fine, thank you.

510
00:23:55,184 --> 00:23:57,353
[Shannon] Bridge is a flagship
of creative capitalism.

511
00:23:58,146 --> 00:24:00,606
We serve children
living in poverty.

512
00:24:00,731 --> 00:24:02,567
Even people
who are living in poverty,

513
00:24:02,692 --> 00:24:04,610
they are earning cash.

514
00:24:04,735 --> 00:24:06,320
And they're earning cash
for a reason.

515
00:24:06,446 --> 00:24:08,698
They're earning it
to be able to spend it

516
00:24:08,823 --> 00:24:10,366
on things they need
in their lives.

517
00:24:10,491 --> 00:24:12,452
Five years ago,
my co-founder, Shannon,

518
00:24:12,577 --> 00:24:15,329
and I decided that
an aggressive start-up company

519
00:24:15,455 --> 00:24:17,331
that could figure out
how to profitably deliver

520
00:24:17,457 --> 00:24:19,417
education at a high quality

521
00:24:19,542 --> 00:24:22,044
could radically disrupt
the status quo in education,

522
00:24:22,170 --> 00:24:24,297
ultimately creating
what could be a billion dollar,

523
00:24:24,422 --> 00:24:26,591
new global education company.

524
00:24:27,425 --> 00:24:28,968
Private schools for the poor

525
00:24:29,093 --> 00:24:32,305
is a $51-billion-a-year market

526
00:24:32,430 --> 00:24:34,098
no one's even thought about.

527
00:24:35,516 --> 00:24:37,143
[Angelo] In the Global South,

528
00:24:37,268 --> 00:24:39,604
what we've seen
is the emergence of chains

529
00:24:39,729 --> 00:24:42,440
of schools, for-profit schools,

530
00:24:42,565 --> 00:24:45,193
to compete against
the public education system.

531
00:24:45,318 --> 00:24:46,736
One of the biggest players

532
00:24:46,861 --> 00:24:48,738
is Bridge
International Academies.

533
00:24:49,572 --> 00:24:52,116
Venture capitalists
invest in Bridge schools:

534
00:24:52,241 --> 00:24:54,827
Pearson,
The World Bank, Zuckerberg,

535
00:24:54,952 --> 00:24:57,205
Gates, and the list goes on.

536
00:24:58,206 --> 00:25:00,750
We hear of creative capitalism.

537
00:25:00,875 --> 00:25:02,418
But that's promoting a world

538
00:25:02,543 --> 00:25:05,713
where the market
would dictate terms <i>...</i>

539
00:25:06,547 --> 00:25:08,508
with respect
to the provision of education.

540
00:25:09,091 --> 00:25:10,551
We take lessons that other

541
00:25:10,676 --> 00:25:12,720
large global
service providers use,

542
00:25:12,845 --> 00:25:14,555
like McDonald's or Starbucks.

543
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,808
We build for scale.
We systematize. We standardize.

544
00:25:17,934 --> 00:25:20,520
We call this
vertically integrated platform.

545
00:25:20,645 --> 00:25:21,896
Our academy in a box.

546
00:25:22,897 --> 00:25:24,190
[Anand] What is so interesting

547
00:25:24,315 --> 00:25:26,567
about this social business thing

548
00:25:26,692 --> 00:25:29,946
is, on the surface,
it seems incredibly noble.

549
00:25:30,863 --> 00:25:32,406
They're saying moneymaking

550
00:25:32,532 --> 00:25:34,116
should not be
the sole goal of a business.

551
00:25:34,242 --> 00:25:35,868
It should also
have a social purpose.

552
00:25:36,786 --> 00:25:37,912
But what it is also saying <i>...</i>

553
00:25:38,829 --> 00:25:41,624
is that the kinds of change

554
00:25:41,749 --> 00:25:44,585
that we ought to pursue
are the kinds of change

555
00:25:44,710 --> 00:25:46,921
that kick something
back to the winners.

556
00:25:47,588 --> 00:25:49,048
But those interested
financial reasons

557
00:25:49,173 --> 00:25:50,841
are good for the world.

558
00:25:50,967 --> 00:25:53,010
If we succeed in serving
ten million children,

559
00:25:53,135 --> 00:25:55,388
which I know we will,

560
00:25:55,513 --> 00:25:58,766
it's still
only about 1% of children <i>...</i>

561
00:25:58,891 --> 00:26:01,644
who need improved services
in their government

562
00:26:01,769 --> 00:26:03,479
and community schools.

563
00:26:03,604 --> 00:26:05,898
So, I hope
we not only get there,

564
00:26:06,023 --> 00:26:08,651
but far trans-cede it,
and in so doing,

565
00:26:08,776 --> 00:26:10,486
be a good partner
for our shareholders

566
00:26:10,611 --> 00:26:12,405
and those who've entrusted us
with their capital <i>...</i>

567
00:26:13,573 --> 00:26:14,907
to try to make a big impact.

568
00:26:15,950 --> 00:26:18,369
[Diane] This is colonialism,
pure and simple.

569
00:26:19,704 --> 00:26:21,330
Fundamentally, Bridge is saying,

570
00:26:21,455 --> 00:26:22,957
"Give us your education system.

571
00:26:23,082 --> 00:26:24,625
We will take care of it."

572
00:26:24,750 --> 00:26:25,960
Public education

573
00:26:26,085 --> 00:26:28,963
is one of the basic commitments

574
00:26:29,088 --> 00:26:30,715
of a democratic society.

575
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,342
Education is not non-political,

576
00:26:33,467 --> 00:26:35,094
it's not apolitical.

577
00:26:35,219 --> 00:26:36,971
You teach a set of values
when you're teaching.

578
00:26:37,096 --> 00:26:39,307
You cannot rely on
Mark Zuckerberg,

579
00:26:39,432 --> 00:26:41,183
Bill Gates, the World Bank

580
00:26:41,309 --> 00:26:43,561
to take over
and provide the education

581
00:26:43,686 --> 00:26:44,979
that you should be
providing yourself.

582
00:26:45,104 --> 00:26:47,356
Bridge is in business.

583
00:26:47,481 --> 00:26:48,899
When you
want to utilize...

584
00:26:50,026 --> 00:26:52,069
poor citizens of this world

585
00:26:52,194 --> 00:26:53,613
as a source of income,

586
00:26:53,738 --> 00:26:55,615
they're making money

587
00:26:55,740 --> 00:26:58,492
out of utilizing
unqualified teachers.

588
00:26:58,618 --> 00:27:01,203
[Shannon] We believe
everyone is a teacher <i>...</i>

589
00:27:02,038 --> 00:27:03,623
and everyone could be.

590
00:27:03,748 --> 00:27:06,751
There are certain
core skills you need to have.

591
00:27:06,876 --> 00:27:08,294
You've got to be able to read.

592
00:27:08,419 --> 00:27:09,712
Might seem like a low bar,

593
00:27:09,837 --> 00:27:11,088
but you have to start somewhere.

594
00:27:12,048 --> 00:27:13,466
[narrator] <i>It's true.</i>

595
00:27:13,591 --> 00:27:15,259
<i>Bridge Teachers
know how to read.</i>

596
00:27:16,177 --> 00:27:17,803
<i>But they're required
to do little more</i>

597
00:27:17,928 --> 00:27:19,805
<i>in their classrooms
because they follow</i>

598
00:27:19,930 --> 00:27:21,432
<i>scripted lesson plans,</i>

599
00:27:21,557 --> 00:27:22,933
<i>read word for word
from a tablet.</i>

600
00:27:24,685 --> 00:27:26,020
[Shannon]
It's telling you

601
00:27:26,145 --> 00:27:27,897
all of these different ways
to behave:

602
00:27:28,022 --> 00:27:30,858
move away from the board,
circulate in the classroom,

603
00:27:30,983 --> 00:27:32,443
give them one on one coaching.

604
00:27:33,235 --> 00:27:36,197
You cannot have teachers
who behave as robots <i>...</i>

605
00:27:37,198 --> 00:27:39,450
follow a scripted curriculum
that tells you,

606
00:27:39,575 --> 00:27:42,411
"Walk three steps
to the blackboard,

607
00:27:42,536 --> 00:27:44,538
walk around the classroom."

608
00:27:44,664 --> 00:27:45,706
And that's...

609
00:27:46,749 --> 00:27:49,418
a teacher ought to be
a natural teacher.

610
00:27:51,087 --> 00:27:52,463
From an investment
point of view <i>...</i>

611
00:27:53,881 --> 00:27:56,008
that because of a tragic failure

612
00:27:56,133 --> 00:27:57,843
of our existing systems,

613
00:27:57,968 --> 00:28:00,346
there's an incredible need
for services

614
00:28:00,471 --> 00:28:01,722
to solve these problems.

615
00:28:02,807 --> 00:28:04,809
People have just kind of said,

616
00:28:04,934 --> 00:28:07,269
"Well, if hopefully
the government will fix it."

617
00:28:07,395 --> 00:28:08,729
But fix it with what?

618
00:28:09,605 --> 00:28:11,065
[narrator] <i>"Government</i>
<i>can't fix problems."</i>

619
00:28:11,982 --> 00:28:14,443
<i>It's a defining idea
of the new corporation...</i>

620
00:28:15,611 --> 00:28:17,822
<i>a key play in its playbook.</i>

621
00:28:17,947 --> 00:28:20,116
<i>And it goes back
nearly half a century.</i>

622
00:28:21,951 --> 00:28:23,869
[Ronald Reagan]
In this present crisis,

623
00:28:23,994 --> 00:28:26,997
government is not
the solution to our problem.

624
00:28:28,082 --> 00:28:29,792
Government is the problem.

625
00:28:32,128 --> 00:28:34,338
[Margaret Thatcher] We believe
that government should be

626
00:28:34,463 --> 00:28:36,090
severely limited

627
00:28:36,215 --> 00:28:39,009
in the way in which they say

628
00:28:39,135 --> 00:28:40,845
that they're entitled to impose

629
00:28:40,970 --> 00:28:43,222
their judgment
on what the people want.

630
00:28:43,347 --> 00:28:45,808
If you look at the real
problems of poverty

631
00:28:45,933 --> 00:28:48,185
and denial of freedom
to people in this country,

632
00:28:48,310 --> 00:28:49,895
almost every single one of them

633
00:28:50,020 --> 00:28:51,188
is a result
of government action.

634
00:28:52,857 --> 00:28:56,694
[Wendy] In the 1980s,
corporations were frustrated

635
00:28:56,819 --> 00:28:59,155
by the limits on profits

636
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,574
that they felt
were imposed upon them

637
00:29:01,699 --> 00:29:04,410
by the combination
of labor unions,

638
00:29:04,535 --> 00:29:07,955
increasing regulation, taxation.

639
00:29:09,331 --> 00:29:11,625
And that combination
of things led to

640
00:29:11,751 --> 00:29:13,461
a kind of rebellion:

641
00:29:13,586 --> 00:29:16,797
one that wouldn't
overthrow democracy

642
00:29:16,922 --> 00:29:19,258
in some overt way <i>...</i>

643
00:29:19,383 --> 00:29:21,927
but choke it, leash it,

644
00:29:22,052 --> 00:29:23,971
tone it down, and above all,

645
00:29:24,096 --> 00:29:26,140
replace it with markets.

646
00:29:27,391 --> 00:29:29,101
[narrator] <i>Corporations</i>
<i>formed alliances</i>

647
00:29:29,226 --> 00:29:31,145
<i>with governments
they had helped elect,</i>

648
00:29:31,270 --> 00:29:33,647
<i>governments that were
in fact anti-government,</i>

649
00:29:33,773 --> 00:29:36,192
<i>and that happily lifted limits
on corporate freedom.</i>

650
00:29:37,443 --> 00:29:40,446
<i>Profits soared,
but a price was paid,</i>

651
00:29:40,571 --> 00:29:42,448
<i>and not by corporations.</i>

652
00:29:42,573 --> 00:29:44,825
[Marshall] What you get
is this profound

653
00:29:44,950 --> 00:29:46,952
anti-government program

654
00:29:47,077 --> 00:29:49,914
to create deficits
through the combination

655
00:29:50,039 --> 00:29:52,291
of tax cuts
and military spending,

656
00:29:52,416 --> 00:29:55,002
so as to make it impossible

657
00:29:55,127 --> 00:29:57,546
to use government in a positive

658
00:29:57,671 --> 00:30:00,257
and constructive way to deal
with our social problems.

659
00:30:00,382 --> 00:30:04,011
[foreboding chimes]

660
00:30:07,014 --> 00:30:08,557
Mr. President,

661
00:30:08,682 --> 00:30:11,852
on behalf of the business
leaders here in the room,

662
00:30:11,977 --> 00:30:14,688
let me particularly
congratulate you

663
00:30:14,814 --> 00:30:18,609
for the historic tax reform
passed last month <i>...</i>

664
00:30:19,777 --> 00:30:22,530
greatly reducing
the tax burden...

665
00:30:23,405 --> 00:30:25,407
of US companies,

666
00:30:25,533 --> 00:30:28,452
providing a tremendous boost

667
00:30:28,577 --> 00:30:30,120
to the global economy.

668
00:30:30,246 --> 00:30:33,749
I cannot wait to sign
these giant tax cuts.

669
00:30:33,874 --> 00:30:36,001
It'll be
the largest tax cuts by far

670
00:30:36,126 --> 00:30:37,795
in the history of our country.

671
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,381
JPMorgan Chase,
they just announced earnings,

672
00:30:40,506 --> 00:30:41,590
and they were incredible.

673
00:30:41,715 --> 00:30:42,800
Where... where are you?

674
00:30:42,925 --> 00:30:44,718
They were very substantial.

675
00:30:44,844 --> 00:30:46,470
Will you say,
"Thank you, Mr. President,"

676
00:30:46,595 --> 00:30:49,056
- at least, huh?
- "Thank you, Mr. President"

677
00:30:49,181 --> 00:30:51,100
may be in order,
apparently, he believes

678
00:30:51,225 --> 00:30:55,145
he played a strong role
in JPMorgan's blowout quarter.

679
00:30:55,271 --> 00:30:57,982
Best profit
for any bank ever in history.

680
00:31:00,985 --> 00:31:02,862
[Tim Ryan] Corporate profits
are the highest

681
00:31:02,987 --> 00:31:04,989
they've been in decades.

682
00:31:05,114 --> 00:31:06,699
Fast forward a few months:

683
00:31:06,824 --> 00:31:09,994
global pandemic,
the rich keep getting richer,

684
00:31:10,119 --> 00:31:11,871
and our friends
on the other side say,

685
00:31:11,996 --> 00:31:14,373
"What do we do now?
Let's do a tax cut."

686
00:31:14,498 --> 00:31:16,876
Thirty-six million people
unemployed.

687
00:31:17,001 --> 00:31:20,379
40% of families
who have a worker

688
00:31:20,504 --> 00:31:22,715
that makes
$40,000 a year or less

689
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,675
lose their job last month.

690
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,635
Four million people
didn't pay their rent.

691
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:28,762
And the Republican Party says

692
00:31:28,888 --> 00:31:30,764
we don't have
any money to help you.

693
00:31:31,724 --> 00:31:32,933
Are you kidding me?

694
00:31:33,809 --> 00:31:35,144
Where do you guys live?

695
00:31:36,812 --> 00:31:38,439
[narrator] <i>And while</i>
<i>corporations lobby for</i>

696
00:31:38,564 --> 00:31:40,357
<i>and profit from
tax cuts at home...</i>

697
00:31:41,442 --> 00:31:44,069
<i>they further avoid taxes
by stashing profits abroad.</i>

698
00:31:44,904 --> 00:31:47,740
[Sandra] The corporate elite
is best positioned

699
00:31:47,865 --> 00:31:51,368
to use the system that
we have to their advantage.

700
00:31:51,493 --> 00:31:54,747
And one manifestation
of that is tax havens.

701
00:31:55,831 --> 00:31:57,833
[narrator] <i>Every year,</i>
<i>corporations squirrel away</i>

702
00:31:57,958 --> 00:31:59,793
<i>billions of dollars
in tax havens.</i>

703
00:32:00,711 --> 00:32:02,671
<i>And when that's combined
with tax cuts...</i>

704
00:32:03,380 --> 00:32:04,757
<i>guess what happens?</i>

705
00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:08,761
Sixty of some of America's
biggest companies

706
00:32:08,886 --> 00:32:12,056
reportedly paid no
federal income tax for 2018,

707
00:32:12,181 --> 00:32:14,391
despite earning
billions of dollars in profits.

708
00:32:14,516 --> 00:32:16,477
This is my first time at Davos.

709
00:32:16,602 --> 00:32:19,480
And uh... and I find it quite
a bewildering experience,

710
00:32:19,605 --> 00:32:20,981
to be honest, I mean,

711
00:32:21,106 --> 00:32:23,651
1,500 private jets
have flown in here

712
00:32:23,776 --> 00:32:25,736
to hear
Sir David Attenborough speak

713
00:32:25,861 --> 00:32:27,863
about, you know,
how we're wrecking the planet.

714
00:32:27,988 --> 00:32:29,448
And I mean,
I hear people talking

715
00:32:29,573 --> 00:32:31,450
the language of participation,

716
00:32:31,575 --> 00:32:34,536
and justice, and equality,
and transparency.

717
00:32:34,662 --> 00:32:36,121
But then, I mean,
almost no one raises

718
00:32:36,246 --> 00:32:37,873
the real issue
of tax avoidance, right,

719
00:32:37,998 --> 00:32:40,209
and of the rich just
not paying their fair share.

720
00:32:40,334 --> 00:32:42,086
We got to be
talking about taxes.

721
00:32:42,211 --> 00:32:43,879
That's it.
Taxes, taxes, taxes.

722
00:32:44,004 --> 00:32:46,006
All the rest is bullshit,
in my opinion.

723
00:32:46,131 --> 00:32:47,466
[woman] Thank you.

724
00:32:47,591 --> 00:32:49,468
Government used to have

725
00:32:49,593 --> 00:32:52,054
a lot of power to extract wealth

726
00:32:52,179 --> 00:32:53,514
in the form of taxes,

727
00:32:53,639 --> 00:32:55,432
and then be able
to use that wealth

728
00:32:55,557 --> 00:32:58,102
for the betterment
of the society as a whole.

729
00:32:58,227 --> 00:33:00,229
But what's happened now is that

730
00:33:00,354 --> 00:33:03,649
we have given
more power to corporations

731
00:33:03,774 --> 00:33:05,567
to control their wealth
and to take it

732
00:33:05,693 --> 00:33:07,486
out of the tax system.

733
00:33:07,611 --> 00:33:09,738
[Anand] So, what happens
as a result of that?

734
00:33:09,863 --> 00:33:12,616
First of all,
companies and rich people

735
00:33:12,741 --> 00:33:15,661
get a lot richer
not paying those taxes

736
00:33:15,786 --> 00:33:17,162
you might have been paying.

737
00:33:17,287 --> 00:33:19,123
Second thing that happens
is the government

738
00:33:19,248 --> 00:33:20,791
has less money.

739
00:33:20,916 --> 00:33:23,752
The government's capacity
is sort of contracted.

740
00:33:23,877 --> 00:33:27,423
And then social problems
start to grow,

741
00:33:27,548 --> 00:33:29,133
in part because
the government has less money.

742
00:33:30,009 --> 00:33:31,510
Now, with that background...

743
00:33:33,220 --> 00:33:34,805
rich people step onto the scene

744
00:33:34,930 --> 00:33:38,058
and say, "Oh, my gosh,
this is a shame.

745
00:33:38,976 --> 00:33:41,562
This situation
we see here is a shame.

746
00:33:42,604 --> 00:33:44,231
We got all these
social problems.

747
00:33:45,399 --> 00:33:47,401
And government, my gosh <i>...</i>

748
00:33:48,193 --> 00:33:49,445
you know,
the government should be

749
00:33:49,570 --> 00:33:50,612
solving this stuff,
but it isn't.

750
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:52,948
That is embarrassing.

751
00:33:53,073 --> 00:33:54,241
Well <i>...</i>

752
00:33:54,366 --> 00:33:55,617
I'm happy
to solve these problems.

753
00:33:55,743 --> 00:33:56,869
But of course,
when we do solve it,

754
00:33:56,994 --> 00:33:58,245
we're going to do it my way.

755
00:33:58,370 --> 00:34:00,164
We're going to privatize
the solution."

756
00:34:04,001 --> 00:34:06,587
[Angelo]
The privatizer's blueprint.

757
00:34:07,296 --> 00:34:09,882
Often also called,
"starve the beast".

758
00:34:10,674 --> 00:34:12,593
You create
a crisis of confidence.

759
00:34:12,718 --> 00:34:14,386
How much money
do we need to be investing

760
00:34:14,511 --> 00:34:17,056
right now in the United States
in water infrastructure?

761
00:34:17,181 --> 00:34:20,601
[Susan] By 2020,
44% of all water infrastructure

762
00:34:20,726 --> 00:34:23,353
in the United States
will be classified as poor,

763
00:34:23,479 --> 00:34:25,564
very poor, or beyond live.

764
00:34:25,689 --> 00:34:28,567
[Angelo] You deny resources
for quality public services.

765
00:34:28,692 --> 00:34:30,360
[Susan] In the 1970s, there were

766
00:34:30,486 --> 00:34:33,113
a lot of pools
of free federal money.

767
00:34:33,238 --> 00:34:36,075
That has really,
no pun, dried up.

768
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,536
[Angelo] And Io and behold,
the answer is privatization.

769
00:34:39,661 --> 00:34:42,331
[Susan] What we believe
is that private industry

770
00:34:42,456 --> 00:34:44,750
is part of the answer,
which is very

771
00:34:44,875 --> 00:34:46,668
consistent with
what the President's plan is.

772
00:34:47,753 --> 00:34:49,505
[narrator]
<i>American Water Works</i>

773
00:34:49,630 --> 00:34:51,673
<i>is one of the world's
largest water corporations.</i>

774
00:34:52,674 --> 00:34:54,093
<i>It takes over
public water systems</i>

775
00:34:54,218 --> 00:34:56,178
<i>and runs them for profit.</i>

776
00:34:57,012 --> 00:34:58,347
<i>And around the world,</i>

777
00:34:58,472 --> 00:34:59,598
<i>there are many other companies</i>

778
00:34:59,723 --> 00:35:01,642
<i>doing the same thing.</i>

779
00:35:02,476 --> 00:35:04,478
[Grand Chief Stewart] It's an
absolutely terrifying notion,

780
00:35:04,603 --> 00:35:06,146
privatization of water <i>...</i>

781
00:35:07,106 --> 00:35:10,067
moving in exactly
the wrong direction.

782
00:35:10,192 --> 00:35:12,361
Access to potable...

783
00:35:13,153 --> 00:35:16,573
clean, drinking water
is a fundamental human right.

784
00:35:17,241 --> 00:35:18,909
But it's just insidious...

785
00:35:20,077 --> 00:35:23,163
that the corporate mind
could even conceive

786
00:35:23,288 --> 00:35:26,375
or imagine
the notion of privatizing it.

787
00:35:31,004 --> 00:35:32,756
Corporations have figured out
that there are

788
00:35:32,881 --> 00:35:34,383
really big
business opportunities

789
00:35:34,508 --> 00:35:36,135
in these public sectors,

790
00:35:36,260 --> 00:35:38,345
in part because
they've been walled off

791
00:35:38,470 --> 00:35:40,806
from corporate
influence in the past.

792
00:35:44,893 --> 00:35:47,646
The private sector is voracious

793
00:35:47,771 --> 00:35:50,399
in seeking to privatize
almost everything.

794
00:35:53,652 --> 00:35:55,946
First, privatize
government services

795
00:35:56,071 --> 00:35:57,489
as much as possible.

796
00:35:57,614 --> 00:35:59,825
And also, the seizure

797
00:35:59,950 --> 00:36:02,870
and the commodification
of the public commons:

798
00:36:02,995 --> 00:36:05,998
your parks, your public schools,

799
00:36:06,123 --> 00:36:07,791
your streets.

800
00:36:07,916 --> 00:36:10,919
How can we get more money
out of the public commons?

801
00:36:12,087 --> 00:36:13,672
[Diane Ravitch]
The for-profit motivation

802
00:36:13,797 --> 00:36:15,757
is always a very bad reason

803
00:36:15,883 --> 00:36:17,342
for providing public services.

804
00:36:18,135 --> 00:36:19,803
There's a conflict
of interest between

805
00:36:19,928 --> 00:36:21,805
whether you're going
to pay off the shareholders

806
00:36:21,930 --> 00:36:24,224
or whether you're going
to invest in the public system.

807
00:36:25,225 --> 00:36:28,979
Many responsibilities
and obligations must be public

808
00:36:29,104 --> 00:36:31,773
in order to maintain
equal access

809
00:36:31,899 --> 00:36:33,859
to the basic necessities
of life.

810
00:36:33,984 --> 00:36:35,986
A healthy, democratic society

811
00:36:36,111 --> 00:36:38,071
has a thriving private sector

812
00:36:38,197 --> 00:36:40,824
and also a thriving
public sector.

813
00:36:41,491 --> 00:36:45,162
And as we permit the private
sector to encroach upon,

814
00:36:45,287 --> 00:36:49,082
and to literally absorb
the responsibilities

815
00:36:49,208 --> 00:36:51,668
and obligations
of a democratic society,

816
00:36:51,793 --> 00:36:53,420
we lose our democracy.

817
00:36:55,589 --> 00:36:57,925
[narrator] <i>In the rise</i>
<i>of big tech corporations,</i>

818
00:36:58,050 --> 00:37:00,844
<i>it's now accelerating
this process.</i>

819
00:37:00,969 --> 00:37:02,679
<i>For example, in schools.</i>

820
00:37:04,848 --> 00:37:07,768
<i>Not only in Africa,
but elsewhere too.</i>

821
00:37:09,770 --> 00:37:11,521
[Diane Ravitch]
Corporations have decided

822
00:37:11,647 --> 00:37:13,732
that they should
remake education

823
00:37:13,857 --> 00:37:15,442
by using technology.

824
00:37:16,526 --> 00:37:19,571
And they want to have
teacher-less classrooms.

825
00:37:20,656 --> 00:37:23,200
But the teacher
is the single most important

826
00:37:23,325 --> 00:37:25,869
and expensive part of education.

827
00:37:25,994 --> 00:37:27,955
In the tech industry's dream,

828
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:31,166
if the teacher is removed
from the equation,

829
00:37:31,291 --> 00:37:33,669
then you can
cut costs dramatically.

830
00:37:37,214 --> 00:37:39,424
[Paul] These companies
monopolize everything.

831
00:37:40,342 --> 00:37:42,427
First of all,
monopolize their sector,

832
00:37:42,552 --> 00:37:45,055
and the next thing
is to look where's left.

833
00:37:47,057 --> 00:37:49,977
These giant corporations
are frantically searching

834
00:37:50,102 --> 00:37:52,896
for new sources of profit
because it's drying up.

835
00:37:53,772 --> 00:37:56,233
They say we need to take
the education system,

836
00:37:56,358 --> 00:37:58,652
take the health care system,
take the transport system,

837
00:37:58,777 --> 00:38:01,363
and own it, or we die.

838
00:38:04,533 --> 00:38:08,203
[Anand] Silicon Valley
is the new Rome of our time.

839
00:38:08,328 --> 00:38:10,831
The Valley has become

840
00:38:10,956 --> 00:38:13,959
this extraordinary power center

841
00:38:14,084 --> 00:38:15,836
that has a huge say

842
00:38:15,961 --> 00:38:20,465
over what kind of media
and information we have

843
00:38:20,590 --> 00:38:23,885
in a democracy... over,
you know,

844
00:38:24,011 --> 00:38:25,971
frankly, how many of our
biggest problems are solved,

845
00:38:26,096 --> 00:38:27,681
over how election
campaigns are run,

846
00:38:27,806 --> 00:38:29,182
etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

847
00:38:29,308 --> 00:38:30,851
Technology's neutral.

848
00:38:30,976 --> 00:38:32,978
And in many ways it's great.

849
00:38:33,103 --> 00:38:35,647
But there's a difference
between a technology

850
00:38:35,772 --> 00:38:38,734
and allowing a few powerful
players to manipulate it

851
00:38:38,859 --> 00:38:40,277
for their own ends.

852
00:38:40,402 --> 00:38:42,779
So, we've gone
from this wide open world

853
00:38:42,904 --> 00:38:44,865
that opened up
all of these possibilities

854
00:38:44,990 --> 00:38:47,242
for people to create things,
to share information,

855
00:38:47,367 --> 00:38:48,910
to share ideas,

856
00:38:49,036 --> 00:38:51,455
and it has collapsed
into these walled gardens

857
00:38:51,580 --> 00:38:54,207
that are controlled by a few,
very powerful players.

858
00:38:55,876 --> 00:38:58,003
We're seeing Amazon,
for example,

859
00:38:58,128 --> 00:39:00,714
gobbling up every
kind of business in sight.

860
00:39:00,839 --> 00:39:02,632
They're interested in
getting into pharmaceuticals,

861
00:39:02,758 --> 00:39:05,010
and they're making
a big move into food.

862
00:39:05,135 --> 00:39:06,970
They capture about
half of everything

863
00:39:07,095 --> 00:39:08,847
that Americans spend online,

864
00:39:08,972 --> 00:39:11,141
and they're growing into
all these different directions.

865
00:39:11,266 --> 00:39:14,770
They control 35% of the world's
cloud computing capacity.

866
00:39:14,895 --> 00:39:17,647
They're building out shipping
and logistics infrastructure

867
00:39:17,773 --> 00:39:21,693
that is scaled to take on
the Postal Service and UPS.

868
00:39:21,818 --> 00:39:24,363
And increasingly,
they are the intermediary

869
00:39:24,488 --> 00:39:26,114
for all of our smart devices.

870
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:29,868
Alexa, their voice system,
is 70% of the market.

871
00:39:30,952 --> 00:39:32,621
And on it goes.

872
00:39:32,746 --> 00:39:34,915
They're making investments
in finance, in health care,

873
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:37,209
hit movies and television shows.

874
00:39:38,001 --> 00:39:41,338
Amazon is increasingly
setting the rules

875
00:39:41,463 --> 00:39:43,548
for what happens
in its marketplace

876
00:39:43,673 --> 00:39:45,884
and pretending like
that's a real market.

877
00:39:46,009 --> 00:39:47,511
But of course, it's not.

878
00:39:47,636 --> 00:39:49,763
You know, that's
a direct threat to democracy,

879
00:39:49,888 --> 00:39:51,932
a very fundamental
threat to democracy.

880
00:39:55,018 --> 00:39:56,770
[narrator] <i>Though</i>
<i>elected by no one,</i>

881
00:39:56,895 --> 00:39:58,522
<i>corporations are now</i>

882
00:39:58,647 --> 00:40:00,107
<i>starting to be treated
like governments.</i>

883
00:40:00,232 --> 00:40:01,817
We're joined now live

884
00:40:01,942 --> 00:40:04,152
by the world's first
ever tech ambassador.

885
00:40:04,277 --> 00:40:06,029
Can I start simply by asking you

886
00:40:06,154 --> 00:40:08,073
what exactly does
a tech ambassador do?

887
00:40:08,198 --> 00:40:11,034
Well, we're basically trying
to treat the technology

888
00:40:11,159 --> 00:40:13,078
and the tech companies
in a way which is similar

889
00:40:13,203 --> 00:40:15,622
to the way we treat
our bilateral relationship

890
00:40:15,747 --> 00:40:17,290
with countries
all over the world.

891
00:40:17,416 --> 00:40:19,334
The value of their stocks
is more or less the same

892
00:40:19,459 --> 00:40:20,961
as the GDP of France,

893
00:40:21,086 --> 00:40:22,838
and we think
that that is being translated

894
00:40:22,963 --> 00:40:25,257
into influence
over political affairs.

895
00:40:26,133 --> 00:40:28,218
We think it is necessary
to treat them in a way

896
00:40:28,343 --> 00:40:30,804
which is similar to the way
we treat other countries.

897
00:40:31,930 --> 00:40:34,391
[Anand] A lot of folks
in the Valley believe

898
00:40:34,516 --> 00:40:35,976
that the companies
they are building

899
00:40:36,101 --> 00:40:39,646
are kind of replacements
of government.

900
00:40:39,771 --> 00:40:42,607
I think if we don't push back

901
00:40:42,732 --> 00:40:45,735
against the kind of agenda

902
00:40:45,861 --> 00:40:47,112
that these companies have,

903
00:40:47,237 --> 00:40:48,655
we're going to live in a world

904
00:40:48,780 --> 00:40:51,491
in which
they are governing us privately

905
00:40:51,616 --> 00:40:52,784
through the profit motive.

906
00:40:52,909 --> 00:40:54,286
But governing us.

907
00:40:54,411 --> 00:41:00,417
?

908
00:41:00,542 --> 00:41:03,086
The deal that the corporations
want from us

909
00:41:03,211 --> 00:41:04,880
is to hand everything to them,

910
00:41:05,005 --> 00:41:06,298
all the value to them <i>...</i>

911
00:41:07,132 --> 00:41:08,758
and we get
a little bit of utility,

912
00:41:08,884 --> 00:41:09,968
we get usefulness,

913
00:41:10,093 --> 00:41:11,470
it becomes easier to study,

914
00:41:11,595 --> 00:41:13,221
or easier to get to work,

915
00:41:13,346 --> 00:41:15,682
or easier to take a health test.

916
00:41:16,641 --> 00:41:18,351
That is a dangerous deal

917
00:41:18,477 --> 00:41:20,520
because nobody can guarantee

918
00:41:20,645 --> 00:41:23,398
what is going to be done
with the information.

919
00:41:23,523 --> 00:41:26,109
We're handling our data
with no checks,

920
00:41:26,234 --> 00:41:27,903
no balances, no control over it.

921
00:41:28,028 --> 00:41:29,696
I think that's going to be

922
00:41:29,821 --> 00:41:33,200
one of the new challenges
of life in the 21st century.

923
00:41:33,325 --> 00:41:34,618
I'm going to call them

924
00:41:34,743 --> 00:41:38,079
the super social
media corporations,

925
00:41:38,205 --> 00:41:41,791
the entities that really run
our lives right now.

926
00:41:42,959 --> 00:41:46,880
The scope of their reach
cannot be underestimated.

927
00:41:47,756 --> 00:41:49,883
They know everything about us.

928
00:41:50,592 --> 00:41:52,886
Every single aspect
of what we do,

929
00:41:53,011 --> 00:41:56,139
who we do it with,
where we do it, what we buy,

930
00:41:56,264 --> 00:41:59,059
is a goldmine for aggregators.

931
00:42:00,060 --> 00:42:01,978
It lets them mold

932
00:42:02,103 --> 00:42:05,023
their policies
and their products,

933
00:42:05,148 --> 00:42:09,819
predicting how you are going
to live the rest of your life.

934
00:42:09,945 --> 00:42:13,281
They're trying to influence
the decisions that you make

935
00:42:13,406 --> 00:42:16,034
from now to when you die,

936
00:42:16,159 --> 00:42:18,703
so that it will best serve,

937
00:42:18,828 --> 00:42:21,498
ultimately,
the corporate bottom line.

938
00:42:21,623 --> 00:42:24,960
[upbeat synthesizer music]

939
00:42:35,428 --> 00:42:37,305
[Sun-Ha]
Technology provides us

940
00:42:37,430 --> 00:42:40,392
such a seductive fantasy.

941
00:42:42,060 --> 00:42:44,396
Our smartphones,
our data driven systems,

942
00:42:44,521 --> 00:42:46,481
our social media platforms,

943
00:42:46,606 --> 00:42:48,692
they are all designed to conceal

944
00:42:48,817 --> 00:42:51,027
the true cost
of these technologies

945
00:42:51,152 --> 00:42:52,696
to our society as a whole.

946
00:42:54,447 --> 00:42:57,659
Privacy is usually the value

947
00:42:57,784 --> 00:43:00,036
that we use to think
through these issues.

948
00:43:00,161 --> 00:43:01,871
But for me,
it's not about privacy.

949
00:43:01,997 --> 00:43:03,456
It's about control.

950
00:43:03,582 --> 00:43:05,792
The drive to make
data profitable

951
00:43:05,917 --> 00:43:08,628
leaves these companies
to say who we are

952
00:43:08,753 --> 00:43:10,880
and define who we are
to other people.

953
00:43:11,006 --> 00:43:13,925
Let me use a real-life example
of a hiring algorithm.

954
00:43:14,050 --> 00:43:15,719
You'll do an interview,

955
00:43:15,844 --> 00:43:18,263
they'll analyze your video
footage, and they'll say,

956
00:43:18,388 --> 00:43:19,723
"You challenged the status quo.

957
00:43:19,848 --> 00:43:21,933
You are a change agent.

958
00:43:22,767 --> 00:43:24,269
Don't hire this person

959
00:43:24,394 --> 00:43:25,562
because they are more likely

960
00:43:25,687 --> 00:43:26,938
to cause trouble
at work."

961
00:43:28,064 --> 00:43:29,608
As far as the algorithm
is concerned,

962
00:43:29,733 --> 00:43:31,151
you are not a human being.

963
00:43:31,276 --> 00:43:33,236
You are just a collection
of data points.

964
00:43:33,945 --> 00:43:37,616
And this is one of the dangers
that we face today,

965
00:43:37,741 --> 00:43:40,118
because we are now saying

966
00:43:40,243 --> 00:43:43,038
we need to stop
using human reason

967
00:43:43,163 --> 00:43:45,081
and we need to rely more

968
00:43:45,206 --> 00:43:48,168
on these kinds of algorithmic
decision making systems.

969
00:43:50,420 --> 00:43:53,381
[eerie buzzing]

970
00:43:53,506 --> 00:43:57,177
We are increasingly
surrendering our capacity

971
00:43:57,302 --> 00:43:59,387
to rely on human experience

972
00:43:59,512 --> 00:44:02,140
and to trust in each other.

973
00:44:03,516 --> 00:44:07,020
So, the question
that these technologies

974
00:44:07,145 --> 00:44:09,230
are really raising for us

975
00:44:09,356 --> 00:44:12,651
is, what does it mean
to be human?

976
00:44:12,776 --> 00:44:15,403
And this kind of
technology of strangers

977
00:44:15,528 --> 00:44:19,115
is one of the ways
in which we are moving away

978
00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:22,118
from the genuine heritage
of the Enlightenment.

979
00:44:22,243 --> 00:44:27,248
?

980
00:44:31,169 --> 00:44:34,089
[Chris] We're taught
that it is all about me.

981
00:44:35,548 --> 00:44:38,176
Narcissism,
the cult of the self,

982
00:44:38,301 --> 00:44:39,928
the idea that consumption

983
00:44:40,053 --> 00:44:42,931
can somehow help us
overcome our alienation,

984
00:44:44,099 --> 00:44:46,685
make us... important.

985
00:44:46,810 --> 00:44:48,478
[woman] <i>I thought, you know,</i>
<i>what better way</i>

986
00:44:48,603 --> 00:44:50,480
<i>to cure the darkness
than to go shopping?</i>

987
00:44:50,605 --> 00:44:52,857
<i>You know,
help stimulate the economy.</i>

988
00:44:52,982 --> 00:44:55,276
These were all <i>...</i>

989
00:44:56,444 --> 00:44:58,113
I hesitate the word values,

990
00:44:58,238 --> 00:45:02,033
but these were all consciously
instilled in the public.

991
00:45:04,577 --> 00:45:08,623
It upends traditional
values of thrift...

992
00:45:10,625 --> 00:45:13,962
self-effacement,
communitarianism,

993
00:45:14,087 --> 00:45:17,298
and replaces them
with the values

994
00:45:17,424 --> 00:45:19,092
that we now define
as American values,

995
00:45:19,217 --> 00:45:22,387
but which should properly
be called corporate values.

996
00:45:22,512 --> 00:45:25,807
[eerie synthesizer music]

997
00:45:33,481 --> 00:45:35,692
[Michael] In recent years,
we've drifted,

998
00:45:35,817 --> 00:45:37,902
almost without realizing it,

999
00:45:38,027 --> 00:45:40,113
from having a market economy

1000
00:45:40,238 --> 00:45:43,074
to becoming a market society.

1001
00:45:44,534 --> 00:45:45,952
The difference is this.

1002
00:45:46,077 --> 00:45:47,954
A market economy is a tool,

1003
00:45:48,079 --> 00:45:49,664
a valuable and effective tool

1004
00:45:49,789 --> 00:45:52,125
for organizing
productive activity.

1005
00:45:52,250 --> 00:45:54,294
But a market society is a place

1006
00:45:54,419 --> 00:45:57,255
where almost everything
is up for sale.

1007
00:45:59,549 --> 00:46:02,677
We are so steeped
in this commodification

1008
00:46:03,344 --> 00:46:05,138
that it's hard to distinguish

1009
00:46:05,263 --> 00:46:08,725
between being a consumer
and being a citizen.

1010
00:46:09,559 --> 00:46:11,895
I'm not a much of a believer
in political citizenship.

1011
00:46:12,020 --> 00:46:13,521
I actually believe much more

1012
00:46:13,646 --> 00:46:15,064
in the power of the marketplace.

1013
00:46:15,190 --> 00:46:16,983
[narrator]
<i>This is Richard Edelman,</i>

1014
00:46:17,108 --> 00:46:19,652
<i>one of the world's most
influential business gurus.</i>

1015
00:46:19,778 --> 00:46:22,363
[Richard] I think companies
actually have filled a void

1016
00:46:22,489 --> 00:46:23,823
left by government.

1017
00:46:23,948 --> 00:46:25,533
Business is at the top rank.

1018
00:46:26,201 --> 00:46:28,953
Government and media
really are at the back end

1019
00:46:29,078 --> 00:46:30,205
of the trust rank.

1020
00:46:31,206 --> 00:46:32,791
These are big changes

1021
00:46:32,916 --> 00:46:35,752
in reliability of business

1022
00:46:35,877 --> 00:46:38,463
as potential good actor.

1023
00:46:39,297 --> 00:46:41,257
It's a brilliant strategy.

1024
00:46:41,382 --> 00:46:45,261
They're going to present
themselves as good actors,

1025
00:46:45,386 --> 00:46:47,222
and use that
as part of their image

1026
00:46:47,347 --> 00:46:48,890
and as part of their branding.

1027
00:46:50,934 --> 00:46:54,187
When we see a big corporation
doing something,

1028
00:46:54,312 --> 00:46:56,022
it creates a sense of hope <i>...</i>

1029
00:46:56,981 --> 00:46:59,609
that maybe we can solve
the climate crisis...

1030
00:47:00,610 --> 00:47:04,614
or inequality,
or other kinds of problems.

1031
00:47:05,657 --> 00:47:08,660
We maybe even think of their
huge power as being a plus

1032
00:47:08,785 --> 00:47:10,787
because we know that the scale

1033
00:47:10,912 --> 00:47:12,497
of these challenges are so big,

1034
00:47:12,622 --> 00:47:15,291
and we feel so powerless
and frustrated

1035
00:47:15,416 --> 00:47:17,377
about the ability
of our government systems

1036
00:47:17,502 --> 00:47:19,212
to actually solve them,

1037
00:47:19,337 --> 00:47:22,549
that we start to sort of
put our faith in corporations.

1038
00:47:22,674 --> 00:47:24,717
But of course,
in the process of doing that,

1039
00:47:24,843 --> 00:47:26,719
we're going
further down the path

1040
00:47:26,845 --> 00:47:28,221
that led us here.

1041
00:47:32,851 --> 00:47:34,477
I grew up in the 1950s,

1042
00:47:34,602 --> 00:47:37,272
and at that time
there was a sense

1043
00:47:37,397 --> 00:47:39,732
that our society
would continually progress

1044
00:47:39,858 --> 00:47:43,570
towards greater equality,
greater opportunity,

1045
00:47:43,695 --> 00:47:45,530
that there would continue
to be social mobility

1046
00:47:45,655 --> 00:47:46,948
for those at the bottom.

1047
00:47:48,199 --> 00:47:51,786
The average pay for a CEO
in the 1950s

1048
00:47:51,911 --> 00:47:54,539
was 20 times
that of the average worker.

1049
00:47:54,664 --> 00:47:56,791
Today, the average pay of a CEO

1050
00:47:56,916 --> 00:47:59,961
is 270 times that
of the average worker.

1051
00:48:01,045 --> 00:48:03,381
[Narrator] <i>In some cases,</i>
<i>that gap is much greater.</i>

1052
00:48:03,506 --> 00:48:07,343
<i>For example, Jamie Dimon
makes more than 1,000 times</i>

1053
00:48:07,468 --> 00:48:10,430
<i>the salary of one of
his lowest paid employees.</i>

1054
00:48:10,555 --> 00:48:13,016
[Katie] Mr. Dimon, you're an
expert on financial statements,

1055
00:48:13,141 --> 00:48:15,643
and you run
a $2.6 trillion bank.

1056
00:48:16,561 --> 00:48:18,521
I went to Monster.com
and I found a job

1057
00:48:18,646 --> 00:48:21,566
in my hometown of Irvine
at JPMorgan Chase

1058
00:48:21,691 --> 00:48:23,526
that pays $16.50 an hour.

1059
00:48:23,651 --> 00:48:25,987
[narrator] <i>This is U.S.</i>
<i>Congresswoman Katie Porter</i>

1060
00:48:26,112 --> 00:48:29,282
<i>providing an example
of a hypothetical employee,</i>

1061
00:48:29,407 --> 00:48:31,242
<i>a single mother
working as a teller,</i>

1062
00:48:31,367 --> 00:48:33,161
<i>at one of Jamie Dimon's banks.</i>

1063
00:48:33,286 --> 00:48:34,829
She rents
a one bedroom apartment.

1064
00:48:34,954 --> 00:48:36,289
She and her daughter
sleep together

1065
00:48:36,414 --> 00:48:37,874
in the same room
in Irvine, California.

1066
00:48:37,999 --> 00:48:39,167
That average
one bedroom apartment

1067
00:48:39,292 --> 00:48:40,752
is going to be $1,600.

1068
00:48:40,877 --> 00:48:42,337
She spends $100...

1069
00:48:42,462 --> 00:48:44,047
[narrator] <i>Congresswoman</i>
<i>Porter itemized</i>

1070
00:48:44,172 --> 00:48:46,174
<i>typical monthly expenses</i>

1071
00:48:46,299 --> 00:48:49,302
<i>and showed they greatly exceed
the employee's salary.</i>

1072
00:48:49,427 --> 00:48:51,012
My question for you,
Mr. Dimon,

1073
00:48:51,137 --> 00:48:54,015
is how should she manage
this budget shortfall

1074
00:48:54,140 --> 00:48:56,225
while she's working full time
at your bank?

1075
00:49:00,188 --> 00:49:01,230
I <i>...</i>

1076
00:49:02,231 --> 00:49:04,359
I don't know that
all your numbers are accurate.

1077
00:49:04,484 --> 00:49:06,778
That number is a start...
is generally a starter job.

1078
00:49:06,903 --> 00:49:08,696
[Katie]
She is a starting employee.

1079
00:49:08,821 --> 00:49:10,365
She has a six-year-old child.
This is her first job.

1080
00:49:10,490 --> 00:49:12,283
You can get those jobs
out of high school,

1081
00:49:12,408 --> 00:49:14,077
and she may have my job one day.

1082
00:49:15,745 --> 00:49:17,205
[narrator] <i>But the widening gap</i>

1083
00:49:17,330 --> 00:49:19,499
<i>between CEOs and their employees</i>

1084
00:49:19,624 --> 00:49:21,167
<i>is just one symptom</i>

1085
00:49:21,292 --> 00:49:23,586
<i>of rising inequality
more generally.</i>

1086
00:49:23,711 --> 00:49:25,421
Right now in the United States,

1087
00:49:25,546 --> 00:49:27,924
the richest country
on the planet,

1088
00:49:28,049 --> 00:49:30,134
half of American families

1089
00:49:30,259 --> 00:49:32,387
couldn't pay a $400 bill

1090
00:49:32,512 --> 00:49:34,138
that landed on their doorstep

1091
00:49:34,263 --> 00:49:37,183
without going into debt
or selling something.

1092
00:49:37,308 --> 00:49:39,352
That's because
corporate executives

1093
00:49:39,477 --> 00:49:41,270
and corporate lobbyists

1094
00:49:41,396 --> 00:49:44,440
are constantly able to change
the rules of the game

1095
00:49:44,565 --> 00:49:46,067
in the favor of the people

1096
00:49:46,192 --> 00:49:47,610
who are already wealthy
and powerful,

1097
00:49:48,653 --> 00:49:51,280
making it harder
to form a union,

1098
00:49:51,406 --> 00:49:54,450
making it easier
for mega corporations

1099
00:49:54,575 --> 00:49:57,412
to shut out competition
from smaller businesses,

1100
00:49:58,371 --> 00:50:02,041
slashing the taxes on wealthy
people and corporations,

1101
00:50:02,166 --> 00:50:04,252
and shifting more
of the responsibility

1102
00:50:04,377 --> 00:50:05,962
on working class people.

1103
00:50:07,296 --> 00:50:10,008
[Marshall] The result
is economic inequality.

1104
00:50:11,175 --> 00:50:13,636
It's a real moral outrage,

1105
00:50:13,761 --> 00:50:15,179
and it can't be dealt

1106
00:50:15,304 --> 00:50:17,890
with separate
from race and gender.

1107
00:50:18,016 --> 00:50:20,935
We can't really deal with these
inequalities separately

1108
00:50:21,060 --> 00:50:23,396
because they're all
so interwoven.

1109
00:50:23,521 --> 00:50:24,856
The black and brown people

1110
00:50:24,981 --> 00:50:26,524
who are impacted
by police brutality,

1111
00:50:26,649 --> 00:50:28,026
women who are impacted

1112
00:50:28,151 --> 00:50:30,153
by sexual harassment
in the workplace,

1113
00:50:30,278 --> 00:50:32,697
the enormous numbers of workers

1114
00:50:32,822 --> 00:50:35,616
who are struggling
with poverty and homelessness,

1115
00:50:35,742 --> 00:50:38,661
and all the degeneration
that we see under capitalism

1116
00:50:38,786 --> 00:50:39,829
for no fault of theirs.

1117
00:50:40,830 --> 00:50:42,915
We're talking about
a global economy

1118
00:50:43,041 --> 00:50:46,669
that, for all the wealth
that was generated last year,

1119
00:50:46,794 --> 00:50:49,547
a trillion dollars
of that new wealth

1120
00:50:49,672 --> 00:50:52,175
went to just 500 individuals.

1121
00:50:52,300 --> 00:50:54,343
- I know you have a lot of...
- [Jamie] I'd love to call up

1122
00:50:54,469 --> 00:50:56,262
and have a conversation
about her financial affairs

1123
00:50:56,387 --> 00:50:57,930
and see if we can be helpful.

1124
00:50:58,056 --> 00:50:59,682
[Katie] See if you can
find a way for her

1125
00:50:59,807 --> 00:51:01,517
to live on less than the minimum

1126
00:51:01,642 --> 00:51:03,603
- that I've described?
- [Jamie] Just be helpful.

1127
00:51:03,728 --> 00:51:06,773
[Anand] The 1% and.01%

1128
00:51:06,898 --> 00:51:09,734
is a group of folks
who talk an extraordinary game,

1129
00:51:09,859 --> 00:51:11,861
and also act
an extraordinary game

1130
00:51:11,986 --> 00:51:15,031
of trying to help out
in an age of inequality,

1131
00:51:15,156 --> 00:51:19,202
and who are willing to do
absolutely anything to help,

1132
00:51:19,327 --> 00:51:22,038
except stepping off the backs

1133
00:51:22,163 --> 00:51:24,874
of the working people
of this country

1134
00:51:24,999 --> 00:51:28,002
who have been screwed
and... and passed over

1135
00:51:28,127 --> 00:51:30,630
by four decades worth of change.

1136
00:51:31,422 --> 00:51:33,549
There's a great quote
that was attributed

1137
00:51:33,674 --> 00:51:35,802
to Justice Brandeis that said,

1138
00:51:35,927 --> 00:51:38,262
"You can have democracy

1139
00:51:38,387 --> 00:51:40,473
or you can have large
accumulations of wealth,

1140
00:51:40,598 --> 00:51:42,350
but you can't have both."

1141
00:51:42,475 --> 00:51:46,104
That wealth gives them
a tremendous amount of power,

1142
00:51:46,229 --> 00:51:48,606
both in promoting
our political leaders,

1143
00:51:48,731 --> 00:51:50,775
in promoting
a legislative agenda

1144
00:51:50,900 --> 00:51:53,486
in every aspect of our society.

1145
00:51:58,658 --> 00:52:01,953
If I want to run a campaign
that is entirely funded

1146
00:52:02,078 --> 00:52:04,413
by corporate,
political action committees,

1147
00:52:04,539 --> 00:52:06,582
is tha... is there anything
that legally prevents me

1148
00:52:06,707 --> 00:52:07,792
from doing that?

1149
00:52:07,917 --> 00:52:09,418
No.

1150
00:52:09,544 --> 00:52:11,129
So, now I'm elected, now I'm in.

1151
00:52:11,254 --> 00:52:13,422
I've got the power
to draft, lobby,

1152
00:52:13,548 --> 00:52:15,091
and shape the laws

1153
00:52:15,216 --> 00:52:17,593
that govern
the United States of America.

1154
00:52:17,718 --> 00:52:19,887
Are there any limits on the laws

1155
00:52:20,012 --> 00:52:22,557
that I can write or influence?

1156
00:52:22,682 --> 00:52:24,183
- There's no limit.
- [Alexandria] So, there's none.

1157
00:52:24,308 --> 00:52:26,310
So, I can be totally
funded by Big Pharma,

1158
00:52:26,435 --> 00:52:29,147
come in, write Big Pharma laws,
and there's no limits to that

1159
00:52:29,272 --> 00:52:30,565
- whatsoever.
- That's right.

1160
00:52:30,690 --> 00:52:32,316
Is there anything preventing me

1161
00:52:32,441 --> 00:52:33,985
from holding stocks,

1162
00:52:34,110 --> 00:52:36,279
say, in an oil or gas company,

1163
00:52:36,404 --> 00:52:40,700
and then writing laws
to deregulate that industry,

1164
00:52:40,825 --> 00:52:44,328
and potentially cause
the stock value to soar,

1165
00:52:44,453 --> 00:52:46,497
and accrue a lot of money
in that time?

1166
00:52:46,622 --> 00:52:49,000
- You could do that, yes.
- Okay, great.

1167
00:52:49,750 --> 00:52:51,627
I think we've seen
the disappearance

1168
00:52:51,752 --> 00:52:53,296
of independent governments

1169
00:52:53,421 --> 00:52:55,006
with the rise of corporate rule.

1170
00:52:55,923 --> 00:52:57,466
We have seen more and more

1171
00:52:57,592 --> 00:52:59,719
takeover of government,

1172
00:52:59,844 --> 00:53:01,971
takeover of electoral processes.

1173
00:53:02,096 --> 00:53:04,724
The problem
is a corporate system

1174
00:53:04,849 --> 00:53:06,225
and a political system

1175
00:53:06,350 --> 00:53:09,604
where governments
see their main role

1176
00:53:09,729 --> 00:53:13,191
as facilitating
private corporations

1177
00:53:13,316 --> 00:53:16,152
to basically do
whatever the hell.

1178
00:53:16,819 --> 00:53:20,948
Nothing more
starkly illustrates this

1179
00:53:21,073 --> 00:53:23,868
than our Federal Treasurer
picking up a lump of coal

1180
00:53:23,993 --> 00:53:25,995
and carrying it
around Parliament House.

1181
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:28,206
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
This is coal.

1182
00:53:28,331 --> 00:53:30,416
Don't be afraid.
Don't be scared.

1183
00:53:30,541 --> 00:53:33,127
[man] The Treasurer knows
the rule on props.

1184
00:53:33,252 --> 00:53:34,545
It's coal!

1185
00:53:34,670 --> 00:53:36,339
Mr. Speaker,
those opposite

1186
00:53:36,464 --> 00:53:40,509
have an ideological,
pathological fear of coal.

1187
00:53:40,635 --> 00:53:44,722
Affordable energy is what
Australian businesses need

1188
00:53:44,847 --> 00:53:46,641
to remain competitive.

1189
00:53:46,766 --> 00:53:48,226
[narrator]
<i>This is Scott Morrison.</i>

1190
00:53:48,351 --> 00:53:49,936
<i>He later became Prime Minister.</i>

1191
00:53:51,479 --> 00:53:54,398
<i>He heads a group of high-level
politicians with deep ties</i>

1192
00:53:54,523 --> 00:53:56,275
<i>to major coal companies.</i>

1193
00:53:56,984 --> 00:53:59,195
<i>Take note
of this one: Adani.</i>

1194
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:00,863
<i>We'll return to it later.</i>

1195
00:54:02,365 --> 00:54:03,950
<i>What's happening in Australia</i>

1196
00:54:04,075 --> 00:54:06,953
<i>is just one part
of a larger global story.</i>

1197
00:54:07,078 --> 00:54:10,248
It's become accepted that
corporations are in charge.

1198
00:54:12,208 --> 00:54:15,002
Governments
are incredibly subservient

1199
00:54:15,127 --> 00:54:16,212
to corporate rule.

1200
00:54:18,965 --> 00:54:20,383
In the United States,

1201
00:54:20,508 --> 00:54:23,135
we've seen under
the Trump administration,

1202
00:54:23,261 --> 00:54:26,013
the wholesale corporate
takeover of government

1203
00:54:26,138 --> 00:54:28,182
on a scale
with no historic precedent.

1204
00:54:29,183 --> 00:54:32,436
It's beyond the wildest dreams
of the corporate sector,

1205
00:54:32,561 --> 00:54:34,897
especially in the area
of deregulation.

1206
00:54:38,943 --> 00:54:41,237
I pledged to eliminate

1207
00:54:41,362 --> 00:54:43,823
two unnecessary regulations

1208
00:54:43,948 --> 00:54:46,534
for every one, new regulation.

1209
00:54:46,659 --> 00:54:48,869
We have succeeded beyond

1210
00:54:48,995 --> 00:54:50,997
our highest expectations.

1211
00:54:51,956 --> 00:54:54,500
Instead of two for one,

1212
00:54:54,625 --> 00:54:59,380
we have cut
22 burdensome regulations

1213
00:54:59,505 --> 00:55:02,842
for every one, new rule.

1214
00:55:03,509 --> 00:55:05,136
I'm willing to bet

1215
00:55:05,261 --> 00:55:07,596
that those are made up numbers.

1216
00:55:07,722 --> 00:55:10,641
The issue in regulation
or deregulation

1217
00:55:10,766 --> 00:55:12,226
is not the number.

1218
00:55:12,351 --> 00:55:13,644
I mean, that's really absurd.

1219
00:55:13,769 --> 00:55:15,354
What you want to know, you know,

1220
00:55:15,479 --> 00:55:17,773
do you want to have
another financial crisis?

1221
00:55:17,898 --> 00:55:19,442
Well, if you do,

1222
00:55:19,567 --> 00:55:21,777
let's get rid of
the financial regulations.

1223
00:55:23,988 --> 00:55:26,741
[Robert] Corporations have
said repeatedly,

1224
00:55:26,866 --> 00:55:28,242
"We are responsible now.

1225
00:55:28,367 --> 00:55:31,245
We understand
the public interest.

1226
00:55:31,370 --> 00:55:32,538
So, we don't have
to be regulated.

1227
00:55:32,663 --> 00:55:34,415
We can self-regulate."

1228
00:55:34,540 --> 00:55:36,083
Well, they've got an obvious
self-interest in saying that.

1229
00:55:36,208 --> 00:55:37,752
The reason
they can't self-regulate

1230
00:55:37,877 --> 00:55:39,462
is that that's not
what they're about.

1231
00:55:39,587 --> 00:55:42,465
They're about
trying to make profit.

1232
00:55:42,590 --> 00:55:45,634
Routinely, when
government regulation fails,

1233
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:48,220
companies in the pursuit
of profit endanger people.

1234
00:55:48,346 --> 00:55:49,930
And it's not a hypothetical.

1235
00:55:50,056 --> 00:55:51,349
It means people get poisoned,

1236
00:55:51,474 --> 00:55:53,225
they get diseases,
they get sick.

1237
00:55:53,351 --> 00:55:56,103
Corners will be cut,
people will be injured,

1238
00:55:56,228 --> 00:55:57,605
and people will be killed.

1239
00:55:57,730 --> 00:55:59,982
We see it over and over again.

1240
00:56:00,107 --> 00:56:03,110
[determined electronic music]

1241
00:56:09,116 --> 00:56:11,994
[exhaling breath]

1242
00:56:12,119 --> 00:56:15,081
[music continues]

1243
00:56:15,206 --> 00:56:22,046
?

1244
00:56:50,241 --> 00:56:53,369
[music fades]

1245
00:57:10,469 --> 00:57:13,305
[Abrahm] Every industry
has fought regulation.

1246
00:57:13,431 --> 00:57:16,058
They all resist oversight
by the government

1247
00:57:16,183 --> 00:57:18,686
because regulation increases
their cost of operating.

1248
00:57:18,811 --> 00:57:21,230
But I've never seen an industry
that's fought it more

1249
00:57:21,355 --> 00:57:23,357
than the oil and gas industry.

1250
00:57:23,482 --> 00:57:26,402
[rewind cranking]

1251
00:57:26,527 --> 00:57:28,612
[explosion rumbling]

1252
00:57:28,737 --> 00:57:30,156
[narrator] <i>Remember this?</i>

1253
00:57:31,615 --> 00:57:34,243
<i>This, too, was a consequence
of deregulation.</i>

1254
00:57:34,368 --> 00:57:37,371
[foreboding orchestral
instrumental]

1255
00:57:52,052 --> 00:57:55,222
<i>As a result of the
Deepwater Horizon catastrophe,</i>

1256
00:57:55,347 --> 00:57:57,975
<i>nearly 200 million gallons
of crude oil</i>

1257
00:57:58,100 --> 00:58:00,436
<i>spilled into the Gulf of Mexico,</i>

1258
00:58:00,561 --> 00:58:02,646
<i>making it
one of the worst environmental</i>

1259
00:58:02,771 --> 00:58:05,232
<i>and deregulation
disasters in history.</i>

1260
00:58:07,902 --> 00:58:10,738
<i>But deregulation
wasn't the only problem.</i>

1261
00:58:10,863 --> 00:58:13,657
<i>BP was also recklessly
breaking the law.</i>

1262
00:58:16,410 --> 00:58:19,121
<i>And they're not alone in being
corporate lawbreakers.</i>

1263
00:58:25,044 --> 00:58:30,049
?

1264
00:58:42,645 --> 00:58:44,980
Corporations will certainly
do things

1265
00:58:45,105 --> 00:58:47,233
that are wrong,
that are unethical,

1266
00:58:47,358 --> 00:58:49,443
if they're legal
and permissible.

1267
00:58:50,236 --> 00:58:51,820
And all the empirical
evidence says

1268
00:58:51,946 --> 00:58:54,448
that they will also violate
the law routinely,

1269
00:58:54,573 --> 00:58:56,033
either intentionally

1270
00:58:56,158 --> 00:58:57,576
or because they'll just
go over the lines

1271
00:58:57,701 --> 00:58:59,453
if there's profits to be made.

1272
00:59:01,038 --> 00:59:03,332
This opioid crisis is a killer.

1273
00:59:04,124 --> 00:59:07,878
And it's a killer
that does not discriminate.

1274
00:59:08,003 --> 00:59:10,965
[foreboding electronic music]

1275
00:59:20,641 --> 00:59:22,726
[narrator]
<i>Lives are being destroyed</i>

1276
00:59:22,851 --> 00:59:25,396
<i>as corporations profit
from their playbook moves...</i>

1277
00:59:28,482 --> 00:59:29,692
<i>as they play to win.</i>

1278
00:59:31,902 --> 00:59:35,030
[Vandana] These corporate
forces have no limits.

1279
00:59:35,155 --> 00:59:36,615
And these forces <i>...</i>

1280
00:59:37,700 --> 00:59:42,204
have put the very human
species itself at risk.

1281
00:59:42,329 --> 00:59:47,334
?

1282
01:00:03,642 --> 01:00:06,312
[Vandana] The giant
ecocidal corporations,

1283
01:00:06,437 --> 01:00:08,314
they're literally playing casino

1284
01:00:08,439 --> 01:00:09,648
with life on Earth.

1285
01:00:10,774 --> 01:00:12,484
Their logic of profits,

1286
01:00:12,610 --> 01:00:14,445
their process of profits,

1287
01:00:15,195 --> 01:00:17,031
is the death of nature.

1288
01:00:19,033 --> 01:00:20,868
[man] <i>Whenever you mess</i>
<i>with nature,</i>

1289
01:00:20,993 --> 01:00:23,746
<i>you don't know for sure
what the exact impact will be.</i>

1290
01:00:23,871 --> 01:00:25,998
<i>We chop down forests, we bring
livestock into new regions,</i>

1291
01:00:26,123 --> 01:00:28,042
<i>and we spread
these new diseases.</i>

1292
01:00:28,167 --> 01:00:29,835
<i>We're at the source
of this problem.</i>

1293
01:00:29,960 --> 01:00:31,795
[man 2] <i>Major cities</i>
<i>all around the world</i>

1294
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:34,048
<i>are vulnerable to a disease
arriving in the city</i>

1295
01:00:34,173 --> 01:00:35,883
<i>and then causing
a major epidemic.</i>

1296
01:00:36,008 --> 01:00:37,676
<i>And again, we're seeing that
more and more.</i>

1297
01:00:38,469 --> 01:00:40,804
[woman] <i>The rate</i>
<i>at which new disease</i>

1298
01:00:40,929 --> 01:00:43,891
<i>epidemics are originating...</i>

1299
01:00:44,016 --> 01:00:46,810
<i>many of them moving from forests</i>

1300
01:00:46,935 --> 01:00:49,104
<i>and wild species to humans,</i>

1301
01:00:49,229 --> 01:00:53,150
<i>is partly because of corporate
invasions into ecosystems,</i>

1302
01:00:53,275 --> 01:00:55,903
<i>and violence to animals.</i>

1303
01:00:56,028 --> 01:00:58,030
<i>The attack on other species</i>

1304
01:00:58,155 --> 01:01:00,741
<i>is bouncing back
as an attack on us.</i>

1305
01:01:04,662 --> 01:01:07,831
[newscaster] <i>All of Italy</i>
<i>is now effectively a red zone.</i>

1306
01:01:07,956 --> 01:01:09,917
[newscaster 2] <i>Warnings</i>
<i>from Sao Paolo are dire.</i>

1307
01:01:10,042 --> 01:01:11,752
[newscaster 3]
<i>In the United States,</i>

1308
01:01:11,877 --> 01:01:13,671
<i>disaster has been declared
in all 50 states.</i>

1309
01:01:15,506 --> 01:01:16,965
[narrator]
<i>When the coronavirus hit</i>

1310
01:01:17,091 --> 01:01:19,093
<i>in the spring of 2020,</i>

1311
01:01:19,218 --> 01:01:22,554
<i>it laid bare the unjust
and dangerous fault lines</i>

1312
01:01:22,680 --> 01:01:24,056
<i>of corporate capitalism.</i>

1313
01:01:28,686 --> 01:01:30,270
[newscaster 4]
<i>African Americans</i>

1314
01:01:30,396 --> 01:01:32,314
<i>have been hit hardest
by the virus.</i>

1315
01:01:32,439 --> 01:01:36,026
<i>Despite accounting for 14%
of Michigan's population,</i>

1316
01:01:36,151 --> 01:01:39,863
<i>they represent 41%
of its COVID victims.</i>

1317
01:01:42,991 --> 01:01:44,868
I'm praying that it's not <i>...</i>

1318
01:01:46,787 --> 01:01:49,164
I haven't been in contact
with nobody that has it.

1319
01:01:50,499 --> 01:01:52,584
[woman] We got a hospital
COVID, 52-year-old male,

1320
01:01:52,710 --> 01:01:54,420
10 minutes out [indistinct].

1321
01:01:54,545 --> 01:01:57,089
[man] I'll be honest with you,
I can barely keep track.

1322
01:02:02,553 --> 01:02:06,765
This is the culmination
of decades of tilting policy,

1323
01:02:06,890 --> 01:02:08,308
tilting public resources,

1324
01:02:08,434 --> 01:02:10,644
in favor
of the biggest corporations.

1325
01:02:12,563 --> 01:02:14,898
Fewer hospitals,
fewer hospital beds,

1326
01:02:15,023 --> 01:02:18,152
less capacity
to be able to respond

1327
01:02:18,277 --> 01:02:19,695
in an emergency like this.

1328
01:02:19,820 --> 01:02:22,698
[melancholy orchestral
instrumental]

1329
01:02:30,748 --> 01:02:33,959
[sirens wailing]

1330
01:02:35,961 --> 01:02:39,047
Other systems are also
breaking down right now.

1331
01:02:39,173 --> 01:02:42,593
Essential workers, people
who are on the front lines

1332
01:02:42,718 --> 01:02:44,636
of getting our groceries to us,

1333
01:02:44,762 --> 01:02:46,555
are really putting
their lives on the line

1334
01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:48,724
without any kind of real backing

1335
01:02:48,849 --> 01:02:50,267
from the companies
that employ them.

1336
01:02:52,102 --> 01:02:54,146
This is partly the product
of the absence

1337
01:02:54,271 --> 01:02:56,815
of labor protections,
unions, and so on.

1338
01:02:59,568 --> 01:03:03,655
What we're seeing
is a continuation of the ways

1339
01:03:03,781 --> 01:03:06,575
that corporations
have undermined

1340
01:03:06,700 --> 01:03:08,118
ordinary people's ability

1341
01:03:08,243 --> 01:03:10,120
to have any say
over their lives.

1342
01:03:10,788 --> 01:03:14,416
This is actually
not a crisis full of novelties.

1343
01:03:14,541 --> 01:03:16,960
It's a crisis
full of revelation.

1344
01:03:17,836 --> 01:03:20,214
For example,
the same, exact dynamic

1345
01:03:20,339 --> 01:03:23,008
of the 2008 financial
crisis bailout,

1346
01:03:23,133 --> 01:03:25,928
where the most powerful
gained power

1347
01:03:26,053 --> 01:03:27,971
as a net result
of those bailouts,

1348
01:03:28,096 --> 01:03:30,724
that is literally happening
again, maybe worse.

1349
01:03:32,684 --> 01:03:35,020
[narrator] <i>As ordinary</i>
<i>people suffered the despair</i>

1350
01:03:35,145 --> 01:03:37,356
<i>and harsh effects
of economic breakdown,</i>

1351
01:03:37,481 --> 01:03:40,484
<i>giant corporations
were thrown a lifeline.</i>

1352
01:03:40,609 --> 01:03:42,486
[McConnell] Madam President,
I have an update.

1353
01:03:43,278 --> 01:03:45,531
At last, we have a deal.

1354
01:03:46,615 --> 01:03:49,159
[Alexandria] What did
the Senate majority fight for?

1355
01:03:49,284 --> 01:03:50,911
One of the largest
corporate bailouts

1356
01:03:51,036 --> 01:03:52,746
with as few strings as possible

1357
01:03:52,871 --> 01:03:54,790
in American history.

1358
01:03:54,915 --> 01:03:56,124
Shameful.

1359
01:03:56,250 --> 01:03:58,544
The greed of that fight

1360
01:03:58,669 --> 01:04:01,630
is wrong for crumbs
for our families.

1361
01:04:01,755 --> 01:04:03,423
And the option that we have

1362
01:04:03,549 --> 01:04:06,468
is to either
let them suffer with nothing,

1363
01:04:06,593 --> 01:04:10,013
or to allow this greed
and billions of dollars,

1364
01:04:10,138 --> 01:04:12,140
which will be leveraged
into trillions of dollars,

1365
01:04:12,266 --> 01:04:15,185
to contribute to the largest
income inequality gap

1366
01:04:15,310 --> 01:04:16,478
in our future.

1367
01:04:17,896 --> 01:04:19,982
[Robert] Once again,
the very wealthy,

1368
01:04:20,107 --> 01:04:22,734
big corporations
did extraordinarily well

1369
01:04:22,860 --> 01:04:24,319
over the last year and a half.

1370
01:04:24,444 --> 01:04:26,196
They have spent
over a trillion dollars

1371
01:04:26,321 --> 01:04:28,699
buying back
their shares of stock

1372
01:04:28,824 --> 01:04:31,910
to artificially boost
their share prices.

1373
01:04:32,035 --> 01:04:35,497
So that the top executives and
major investors would benefit.

1374
01:04:35,622 --> 01:04:37,749
They could have used
that trillion dollars

1375
01:04:37,875 --> 01:04:40,168
as a cushion
against the big rainy day,

1376
01:04:40,294 --> 01:04:41,879
the storm that we now have.

1377
01:04:42,004 --> 01:04:44,965
They didn't.
Instead, they got bailed out.

1378
01:04:45,090 --> 01:04:49,303
It's socialism for the rich,
a corporate socialism,

1379
01:04:49,428 --> 01:04:52,764
but also the harshest form
of capitalism

1380
01:04:52,890 --> 01:04:55,225
for most working people
and the poor.

1381
01:04:57,311 --> 01:04:59,104
The crisis has highlighted

1382
01:04:59,229 --> 01:05:01,356
that we're absolutely unprepared

1383
01:05:01,481 --> 01:05:04,902
to deal with disasters like
what we're facing right now.

1384
01:05:05,694 --> 01:05:08,780
And we also have this other
even bigger looming crisis,

1385
01:05:08,906 --> 01:05:10,324
which is
the climate catastrophe.

1386
01:05:11,074 --> 01:05:12,367
That's not going anywhere.

1387
01:05:18,624 --> 01:05:20,792
[Heather]
It's no exaggeration

1388
01:05:20,918 --> 01:05:25,172
to say that the greed economy
is killing us.

1389
01:05:26,089 --> 01:05:28,091
It's killing off species.

1390
01:05:28,216 --> 01:05:31,136
It's depleting
our natural resources.

1391
01:05:32,220 --> 01:05:34,932
It's poisoning our people.

1392
01:05:36,099 --> 01:05:38,101
A handful of corporations

1393
01:05:38,226 --> 01:05:41,438
are allowed to put
next quarter's profits

1394
01:05:41,563 --> 01:05:43,732
ahead of the next generation.

1395
01:05:45,192 --> 01:05:47,027
When our children
and grandchildren

1396
01:05:47,152 --> 01:05:48,779
look back in the history books

1397
01:05:48,904 --> 01:05:50,322
and ask the question,

1398
01:05:50,447 --> 01:05:53,200
"Why didn't we stop

1399
01:05:53,325 --> 01:05:55,619
the crisis
of climate change?"

1400
01:05:56,578 --> 01:05:58,664
The only answer
we'll have for them

1401
01:05:58,789 --> 01:06:01,959
is that it was profitable
for a handful of corporations

1402
01:06:02,084 --> 01:06:03,627
to keep polluting our planet.

1403
01:06:06,713 --> 01:06:08,298
[Abrahm]
The changes that we fear

1404
01:06:08,423 --> 01:06:10,717
are coming
faster than anybody thought.

1405
01:06:10,842 --> 01:06:13,762
The impacts from them
are going to be far worse

1406
01:06:13,887 --> 01:06:14,930
than we thought.

1407
01:06:17,099 --> 01:06:20,435
It's also going to change
the entire global dynamic

1408
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:22,229
around equality.

1409
01:06:22,354 --> 01:06:24,398
The world is going
to divide in ways

1410
01:06:24,523 --> 01:06:27,401
that we have a difficult
time imagining now.

1411
01:06:27,526 --> 01:06:28,944
We're headed for a world

1412
01:06:29,069 --> 01:06:32,030
that sees a protected,
privileged few

1413
01:06:32,155 --> 01:06:36,660
surrounded by an immensely
impoverished majority

1414
01:06:36,785 --> 01:06:38,370
of the global population.

1415
01:06:39,997 --> 01:06:41,289
[narrator] <i>With the impacts</i>
<i>of climate change</i>

1416
01:06:41,415 --> 01:06:43,291
<i>now in plain view,</i>

1417
01:06:43,417 --> 01:06:46,003
<i>fossil fuel companies
have stopped actively denying</i>

1418
01:06:46,128 --> 01:06:47,379
<i>that it's happening.</i>

1419
01:06:48,630 --> 01:06:50,048
They have discovered

1420
01:06:50,173 --> 01:06:51,967
that a better strategy
for them now,

1421
01:06:52,092 --> 01:06:54,636
in the age of active
climate breakdown,

1422
01:06:54,761 --> 01:06:57,514
is to charm us all
into believing

1423
01:06:57,639 --> 01:06:59,850
that they're part
of the solution,

1424
01:06:59,975 --> 01:07:02,769
saying, "Okay, we're going
to invest in renewables.

1425
01:07:02,894 --> 01:07:05,856
But meanwhile we have
to keep using fossil fuels

1426
01:07:05,981 --> 01:07:07,524
for a long time,

1427
01:07:07,649 --> 01:07:10,485
so, we can use lighter fuels
like natural gas.

1428
01:07:10,610 --> 01:07:12,362
But we have
to be realistic."

1429
01:07:12,487 --> 01:07:14,239
It is impossible,

1430
01:07:14,364 --> 01:07:17,617
impossible to displace
carbon fully

1431
01:07:17,743 --> 01:07:19,494
for a very long time.

1432
01:07:19,619 --> 01:07:23,331
Gas is a very good carbon fuel.

1433
01:07:24,791 --> 01:07:27,377
[Abrahm] You have to see this
as one more arrow

1434
01:07:27,502 --> 01:07:29,963
in the large quiver
of delay tactics,

1435
01:07:30,088 --> 01:07:31,965
and ways to preserve

1436
01:07:32,090 --> 01:07:33,592
what's really the core
of their business,

1437
01:07:33,717 --> 01:07:36,803
not the core of the best
interest of society.

1438
01:07:36,928 --> 01:07:39,056
We need to transition
to the cleanest form

1439
01:07:39,181 --> 01:07:41,933
of carbon free energy
as quickly as possible.

1440
01:07:42,059 --> 01:07:43,560
If we were to do this
by tomorrow,

1441
01:07:43,685 --> 01:07:45,395
it wouldn't be fast enough.

1442
01:07:45,520 --> 01:07:46,813
I mean, we'd just be stupid

1443
01:07:46,938 --> 01:07:48,482
if we look to the coal

1444
01:07:48,607 --> 01:07:49,983
and gas and oil industry

1445
01:07:50,108 --> 01:07:51,526
for a clean energy future.

1446
01:07:51,651 --> 01:07:53,111
That's not what they do.

1447
01:07:53,236 --> 01:07:54,821
They have a business model.

1448
01:07:54,946 --> 01:07:56,698
They're going to pursue
that business model

1449
01:07:56,823 --> 01:07:58,075
to the end of time.

1450
01:07:58,200 --> 01:07:59,534
And they may do that

1451
01:07:59,659 --> 01:08:01,286
if we're not able
to control them.

1452
01:08:01,411 --> 01:08:03,163
The fossil fuel industry

1453
01:08:03,288 --> 01:08:06,583
actually doesn't plan to stop
increasing production

1454
01:08:06,708 --> 01:08:09,419
and increasing extraction
anytime soon.

1455
01:08:09,544 --> 01:08:11,296
In fact,
they're doubling down on it.

1456
01:08:11,421 --> 01:08:13,673
Their goal is to extract

1457
01:08:13,799 --> 01:08:15,926
as much as possible

1458
01:08:16,051 --> 01:08:18,887
before it becomes
just completely unviable

1459
01:08:19,012 --> 01:08:20,430
for them to do so.

1460
01:08:22,682 --> 01:08:24,142
[narrator]
<i>The fossil fuel industry</i>

1461
01:08:24,267 --> 01:08:26,144
<i>is ramping up new mega-projects.</i>

1462
01:08:28,063 --> 01:08:30,357
<i>Some companies
are pursuing profits</i>

1463
01:08:30,482 --> 01:08:32,109
<i>from even the dirtiest fuels...</i>

1464
01:08:33,276 --> 01:08:34,528
<i>like Adani.</i>

1465
01:08:35,862 --> 01:08:37,572
[man] Around 2011,

1466
01:08:37,697 --> 01:08:41,243
there were plans
for nine new coal export ports

1467
01:08:41,368 --> 01:08:43,328
up and down
the Great Barrier Reef coast.

1468
01:08:43,954 --> 01:08:46,248
Adani's proposed Carmichael mine

1469
01:08:46,373 --> 01:08:49,084
would be
a 60 million ton a year,

1470
01:08:49,209 --> 01:08:52,003
thermal coal mine in the middle
of the Galilee Basin.

1471
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:55,924
[Murrawah] It's the largest
new proposed coal project

1472
01:08:56,049 --> 01:08:57,968
in the world

1473
01:08:58,093 --> 01:09:01,721
to be 40 kilometers
by 13 kilometers <i>...</i>

1474
01:09:01,847 --> 01:09:06,184
entirely encompassed within
Wangan and Jagalingou country.

1475
01:09:07,936 --> 01:09:10,981
[Sam] It is on the doorstep
of the Great Barrier Reef,

1476
01:09:11,106 --> 01:09:14,985
an already very stressed
and vulnerable ecosystem.

1477
01:09:15,110 --> 01:09:16,653
And what we're going to see

1478
01:09:16,778 --> 01:09:19,156
is 500 more coal ships
every year

1479
01:09:19,281 --> 01:09:21,825
trudging through a stressed reef

1480
01:09:21,950 --> 01:09:23,743
that what scientists
are telling us

1481
01:09:23,869 --> 01:09:25,537
is already half dead.

1482
01:09:25,662 --> 01:09:29,291
The Adani Carmichael mine
would drive global warming.

1483
01:09:30,208 --> 01:09:33,670
It would destroy habitat
for endangered species,

1484
01:09:33,795 --> 01:09:35,547
it would destroy groundwater,

1485
01:09:35,672 --> 01:09:38,592
and it would disenfranchise
Wangan and Jagalingou,

1486
01:09:38,717 --> 01:09:40,051
the traditional owners
of that country.

1487
01:09:40,969 --> 01:09:42,637
[Murrawah]
Wangan and Jagalingou,

1488
01:09:42,762 --> 01:09:44,264
we're a problem for Adani.

1489
01:09:44,389 --> 01:09:46,474
So, they're going to do
whatever they can

1490
01:09:46,600 --> 01:09:50,103
to try and get
rid of that problem.

1491
01:09:52,397 --> 01:09:55,400
We know that the mechanisms
of the state line up to work

1492
01:09:55,525 --> 01:09:57,986
for mining companies
and corporations,

1493
01:09:58,111 --> 01:10:01,072
essentially to roll over
Aboriginal people,

1494
01:10:01,198 --> 01:10:02,699
to get past us.

1495
01:10:07,287 --> 01:10:08,872
The government and the state

1496
01:10:08,997 --> 01:10:11,666
and the corporations
devised ways saying,

1497
01:10:11,791 --> 01:10:13,960
"Oh, we want to put this mine
in, we just want to do it.

1498
01:10:14,085 --> 01:10:15,545
We just want to put
this pipeline in.

1499
01:10:15,670 --> 01:10:16,922
And oh, these people
are in our way.

1500
01:10:17,047 --> 01:10:18,506
We need to remove them."

1501
01:10:18,632 --> 01:10:21,092
[chanting in Spanish]

1502
01:10:23,136 --> 01:10:25,096
They use our security,

1503
01:10:25,222 --> 01:10:27,224
they use our own Aboriginal
police against us,

1504
01:10:27,349 --> 01:10:29,309
they use every means they can.

1505
01:10:30,685 --> 01:10:32,145
[Grand Chief Stewart]
To Indigenous people,

1506
01:10:32,270 --> 01:10:34,481
it is clearly
a life and death struggle.

1507
01:10:35,440 --> 01:10:38,401
That's what you're witnessing
happening around the world.

1508
01:10:39,194 --> 01:10:42,072
There's this destructive
corporate agenda

1509
01:10:42,197 --> 01:10:44,783
that is completely
out of control.

1510
01:10:44,908 --> 01:10:48,328
[rapid gunfire]

1511
01:10:50,372 --> 01:10:53,375
[menacing electronic music]

1512
01:11:12,018 --> 01:11:14,646
When a society
begins to understand

1513
01:11:14,771 --> 01:11:17,232
that that good job
that they had,

1514
01:11:17,357 --> 01:11:18,858
or their parents had,
is never coming back...

1515
01:11:20,110 --> 01:11:23,613
that they are going to be
working 70 hours a week

1516
01:11:23,738 --> 01:11:26,866
and still be consumed
by crippling debt peonage,

1517
01:11:26,992 --> 01:11:29,035
that all of their dreams

1518
01:11:29,160 --> 01:11:31,663
that Oprah and everyone else
has told them

1519
01:11:31,788 --> 01:11:33,331
can come to fruition

1520
01:11:33,456 --> 01:11:35,375
are never going to arrive,

1521
01:11:35,500 --> 01:11:39,212
and they scream for vengeance
and moral renewal,

1522
01:11:39,337 --> 01:11:42,132
and they look
for the internal enemies

1523
01:11:42,257 --> 01:11:44,384
that have thwarted
the possibility

1524
01:11:44,509 --> 01:11:45,885
of their own aggrandizement.

1525
01:11:46,011 --> 01:11:47,929
So, then you turn on
the vulnerable.

1526
01:11:48,054 --> 01:11:49,973
You turn on Muslims,

1527
01:11:50,098 --> 01:11:51,891
undocumented workers,

1528
01:11:52,017 --> 01:11:53,852
homosexuals, feminists,

1529
01:11:53,977 --> 01:11:55,353
intellectuals, liberals <i>...</i>

1530
01:11:56,855 --> 01:11:59,566
all of those forces
that you are told

1531
01:11:59,691 --> 01:12:02,986
have thwarted the possibilities

1532
01:12:03,111 --> 01:12:05,113
that were your right to have.

1533
01:12:07,073 --> 01:12:09,993
[Vandana] What you see
is a frustration

1534
01:12:10,118 --> 01:12:14,289
that grew
out of economic disempowerment,

1535
01:12:14,414 --> 01:12:17,625
turning into a new wave of hate.

1536
01:12:17,751 --> 01:12:19,711
There's no question
that a lot of people

1537
01:12:19,836 --> 01:12:22,422
around the world have a feeling
that we've lived in this age

1538
01:12:22,547 --> 01:12:24,883
that is incredibly
abundant in innovation

1539
01:12:25,008 --> 01:12:26,926
but short on progress,
if progress means

1540
01:12:27,052 --> 01:12:28,428
most people's lives
getting better.

1541
01:12:28,553 --> 01:12:30,472
I'm right wing
and I'm proud of it!

1542
01:12:30,597 --> 01:12:32,432
[people cheering]

1543
01:12:32,557 --> 01:12:34,559
[Anand] It's only
a matter of time

1544
01:12:34,684 --> 01:12:37,103
before... people

1545
01:12:37,228 --> 01:12:39,481
want to shatter the system.

1546
01:12:39,606 --> 01:12:41,191
[man on radio]
<i>You must disperse now.</i>

1547
01:12:41,316 --> 01:12:43,902
<i>Riot police
will be used in this area.</i>

1548
01:12:44,027 --> 01:12:46,154
There's no guarantee
when people rise up

1549
01:12:46,279 --> 01:12:49,908
to shatter a system whether
you get Medicare for All

1550
01:12:50,033 --> 01:12:52,911
or a wall
on the southern border.

1551
01:12:55,330 --> 01:12:58,625
[crowd chanting] Build that
wall! Build that wall!

1552
01:12:58,750 --> 01:13:01,419
Build that wall!
Build that wall!

1553
01:13:01,544 --> 01:13:03,713
[Marshall] It's akin
to the fascist movements

1554
01:13:03,838 --> 01:13:06,091
of the 1920s and '30s

1555
01:13:06,216 --> 01:13:10,678
where the alienated
can feel a sense of empowerment

1556
01:13:10,804 --> 01:13:13,390
by identifying
with the great leader,

1557
01:13:13,515 --> 01:13:15,433
often in these big rallies.

1558
01:13:20,105 --> 01:13:24,025
I mean, it really is like
snapshots out of the 1930s,

1559
01:13:24,150 --> 01:13:26,403
this kind of politics of hatred,

1560
01:13:26,528 --> 01:13:29,280
and reaction, and division.

1561
01:13:32,367 --> 01:13:36,079
[Nick] Donald Trump...
wasn't the problem.

1562
01:13:36,204 --> 01:13:39,582
Donald Trump was
the symptom of the problem.

1563
01:13:39,707 --> 01:13:43,086
The problem is a breakdown

1564
01:13:43,211 --> 01:13:47,132
in the social cohesion
that makes democracy

1565
01:13:47,257 --> 01:13:49,342
and civil society possible.

1566
01:13:52,679 --> 01:13:55,598
And that breakdown
in social cohesion

1567
01:13:55,723 --> 01:13:58,685
in turn was created by 40 years

1568
01:13:58,810 --> 01:14:01,229
of rising economic inequality,

1569
01:14:01,354 --> 01:14:04,190
by the evisceration
of the middle class.

1570
01:14:05,859 --> 01:14:08,403
Collectively,
the nation lashed out

1571
01:14:08,528 --> 01:14:11,614
by electing the candidate
who was lashing out, too.

1572
01:14:13,533 --> 01:14:16,578
Go fucking make
my tortilla, motherfucker!

1573
01:14:16,703 --> 01:14:18,872
And build
that fucking wall for me!

1574
01:14:19,664 --> 01:14:21,166
Trump!

1575
01:14:21,291 --> 01:14:23,084
[Wendy] This angry,

1576
01:14:23,209 --> 01:14:25,795
right-wing eruption

1577
01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:27,422
completely agreed

1578
01:14:27,547 --> 01:14:29,924
with the free market
fundamentalism

1579
01:14:30,049 --> 01:14:31,259
of this new order,

1580
01:14:31,384 --> 01:14:33,178
and represented themselves

1581
01:14:33,303 --> 01:14:36,389
as a people whose whiteness,

1582
01:14:36,514 --> 01:14:38,141
whose traditional values,

1583
01:14:38,266 --> 01:14:41,019
whose Christianity,
whose nativism,

1584
01:14:41,144 --> 01:14:42,854
should be at the heart

1585
01:14:42,979 --> 01:14:44,814
of the country's concerns.

1586
01:14:44,939 --> 01:14:46,274
Let them call you racist.

1587
01:14:46,399 --> 01:14:47,901
[woman translating into French]

1588
01:14:48,026 --> 01:14:49,402
Let them call you xenophobes.

1589
01:14:49,527 --> 01:14:50,862
[woman translating into French]

1590
01:14:50,987 --> 01:14:52,530
Let them call you nativist.

1591
01:14:52,655 --> 01:14:54,282
[woman translating into French]

1592
01:14:54,407 --> 01:14:57,160
Wear it as a badge of honor

1593
01:14:57,285 --> 01:15:00,622
because every day we get
stronger and they get weaker.

1594
01:15:01,831 --> 01:15:04,417
Parts of the population
are actually leaning

1595
01:15:04,542 --> 01:15:07,420
towards strongmen:
Donald Trump.

1596
01:15:07,545 --> 01:15:09,172
The large part
of the Turkish population

1597
01:15:09,297 --> 01:15:10,965
is supporting Erdogan,

1598
01:15:11,090 --> 01:15:13,301
or we're seeing it
in Hungary with Orbán.

1599
01:15:13,426 --> 01:15:15,887
We are proud to stand together
with United States

1600
01:15:16,012 --> 01:15:18,139
on fighting against
illegal migration,

1601
01:15:19,057 --> 01:15:20,808
on terrorism,

1602
01:15:20,934 --> 01:15:23,019
and to protect and help

1603
01:15:23,144 --> 01:15:25,063
the Christian communities
all around the world.

1604
01:15:25,188 --> 01:15:27,899
[Michael] All of these
right wing regimes

1605
01:15:28,024 --> 01:15:30,860
represent a continuation
of privatization

1606
01:15:30,985 --> 01:15:33,279
of the destruction of welfare,

1607
01:15:33,404 --> 01:15:35,573
the undermining of labor units,
et cetera.

1608
01:15:35,698 --> 01:15:38,076
Unchained by the kinds of
restrictions

1609
01:15:38,201 --> 01:15:40,119
that workers' rights posed,

1610
01:15:40,245 --> 01:15:42,622
or that environmental
protections posed,

1611
01:15:42,747 --> 01:15:44,082
more than even structures

1612
01:15:44,207 --> 01:15:46,501
for providing
for the poor posed.

1613
01:15:46,626 --> 01:15:49,504
So now,
corporations have freer reign.

1614
01:15:51,089 --> 01:15:53,216
Money has replaced the vote.

1615
01:15:53,341 --> 01:15:55,593
America is dominated

1616
01:15:55,718 --> 01:15:58,221
by a system
of legalized bribery.

1617
01:15:58,346 --> 01:15:59,973
Our three branches of government

1618
01:16:00,098 --> 01:16:02,642
are wholly captive
to corporate power.

1619
01:16:02,767 --> 01:16:04,435
So, you have corporate forces

1620
01:16:04,561 --> 01:16:08,481
that purport to pay fealty
to electoral politics,

1621
01:16:08,606 --> 01:16:10,400
the Constitution,
the iconography

1622
01:16:10,525 --> 01:16:13,027
and language
of American patriotism,

1623
01:16:13,152 --> 01:16:14,821
and yet internally

1624
01:16:14,946 --> 01:16:17,073
have rendered
the citizen impotent.

1625
01:16:17,824 --> 01:16:19,242
I don't think that you can <i>...</i>

1626
01:16:20,326 --> 01:16:22,620
honestly grasp
the forces we're up against,

1627
01:16:22,745 --> 01:16:26,082
including the unraveling
of the ecosystem,

1628
01:16:26,207 --> 01:16:29,419
and not be filled with despair.

1629
01:16:29,544 --> 01:16:31,963
The greatest
existential crisis of our time

1630
01:16:32,088 --> 01:16:34,632
is to at once understand
the reality before us

1631
01:16:34,757 --> 01:16:37,844
and then find
the capacity to resist.

1632
01:16:37,969 --> 01:16:40,888
[ethereal chiming]

1633
01:16:52,150 --> 01:16:53,735
[Micah] So much of our lives
is about the stories

1634
01:16:53,860 --> 01:16:55,486
we tell ourselves.

1635
01:16:55,612 --> 01:16:57,822
And corporations have done
a very effective job

1636
01:16:57,947 --> 01:16:59,699
at defining
the limits of possibility

1637
01:16:59,824 --> 01:17:02,452
and defining
what we can expect out of life.

1638
01:17:03,411 --> 01:17:05,788
So, if we believe that we are

1639
01:17:05,913 --> 01:17:07,457
in a dog-eat-dog world

1640
01:17:07,582 --> 01:17:10,668
and it's a patriarchal machismo
view of reality,

1641
01:17:10,793 --> 01:17:13,046
then that constrains
how we act and how we behave.

1642
01:17:14,964 --> 01:17:16,215
Social movements are created

1643
01:17:16,341 --> 01:17:18,134
out of a contagious mood
and a new tactic.

1644
01:17:18,259 --> 01:17:19,927
Part of what
that new tactic does

1645
01:17:20,053 --> 01:17:21,512
is it wakes people up,
and part of what that mood does

1646
01:17:21,638 --> 01:17:23,640
is gets them to dream again.

1647
01:17:24,390 --> 01:17:26,976
[narrator] <i>In 2011,</i>
<i>mass movements for change</i>

1648
01:17:27,101 --> 01:17:29,103
<i>swept across the globe
in the aftermath</i>

1649
01:17:29,228 --> 01:17:31,689
<i>of the 2008 financial crisis.</i>

1650
01:17:31,814 --> 01:17:33,858
There was
the cycle of struggles,

1651
01:17:34,942 --> 01:17:36,778
sometimes called
the Movement of Squares.

1652
01:17:36,903 --> 01:17:39,113
It starts in Tunisia <i>...</i>

1653
01:17:40,281 --> 01:17:41,616
and passes to Egypt.

1654
01:17:42,784 --> 01:17:46,454
Passing then across
the Mediterranean to Spain.

1655
01:17:46,579 --> 01:17:48,456
[people chanting in Spanish]

1656
01:17:48,581 --> 01:17:51,000
to Greece...

1657
01:17:51,125 --> 01:17:53,419
before it finally arrives
at Zuccotti Park

1658
01:17:53,544 --> 01:17:55,129
in the United States.

1659
01:17:55,254 --> 01:17:56,756
And what were
these movements about?

1660
01:17:56,881 --> 01:17:59,175
They were really
about the demand

1661
01:17:59,300 --> 01:18:00,927
for a new kind of democracy.

1662
01:18:04,347 --> 01:18:06,057
During Occupy Wall Street,
we suddenly thought,

1663
01:18:06,182 --> 01:18:07,892
"What, We can have
a democracy in this country

1664
01:18:08,017 --> 01:18:10,520
that's not run by corporate
finance capitalism?"

1665
01:18:10,645 --> 01:18:11,938
Be like,
"That's amazing," you know?

1666
01:18:13,481 --> 01:18:15,858
And the moment was so ripe
that within 24 hours,

1667
01:18:15,983 --> 01:18:17,902
activists in New York City
took up the idea

1668
01:18:18,027 --> 01:18:19,070
and ran with it.

1669
01:18:19,195 --> 01:18:20,905
[crowd] Resurrect democracy!

1670
01:18:22,198 --> 01:18:24,367
[Micah] These movements
were a kind of refusal

1671
01:18:24,492 --> 01:18:26,661
of corporate culture,
consumerism,

1672
01:18:26,786 --> 01:18:28,162
and that was their essence.

1673
01:18:28,287 --> 01:18:29,831
[crowd] Of New York City.

1674
01:18:29,956 --> 01:18:31,416
[narrator] <i>The Occupy movement</i>

1675
01:18:31,541 --> 01:18:33,209
<i>quickly spread
from Zuccotti Park</i>

1676
01:18:33,334 --> 01:18:35,461
<i>to cities across
the United States.</i>

1677
01:18:35,586 --> 01:18:36,796
<i>And then the world.</i>

1678
01:18:36,921 --> 01:18:39,674
[upbeat synthesizer music]

1679
01:18:48,349 --> 01:18:51,936
[Kshama] The Occupy movement
captured the feeling

1680
01:18:52,061 --> 01:18:53,896
that ordinary
working people had,

1681
01:18:54,021 --> 01:18:56,899
that when the recession
happened in 2008,

1682
01:18:57,024 --> 01:19:00,069
the very banks that had caused
the financial collapse

1683
01:19:00,194 --> 01:19:02,196
were the ones being rewarded,

1684
01:19:02,321 --> 01:19:04,449
and the rest of us
had got sold out.

1685
01:19:06,117 --> 01:19:07,702
[Robert] What was
so important about Occupy

1686
01:19:07,827 --> 01:19:10,872
was to crystallize
the public anger.

1687
01:19:10,997 --> 01:19:12,582
Occupy did that

1688
01:19:12,707 --> 01:19:15,084
and put an explanatory narrative

1689
01:19:15,209 --> 01:19:18,004
around the 99% versus the 1%.

1690
01:19:20,047 --> 01:19:21,883
[man] We're just trying
to figure out a way

1691
01:19:22,008 --> 01:19:23,676
that we can change this system,

1692
01:19:23,801 --> 01:19:26,679
an economic system
that is fundamentally...

1693
01:19:26,804 --> 01:19:29,724
fundamentally misaligned
in the corporate interests,

1694
01:19:29,849 --> 01:19:31,601
and against
the peoples' interests.

1695
01:19:31,726 --> 01:19:32,769
And that's all we're doing.

1696
01:19:32,894 --> 01:19:34,729
[weapons firing]

1697
01:19:36,689 --> 01:19:38,900
[man] Hey, back up,
back up, back up.

1698
01:19:41,068 --> 01:19:42,570
[man 2] What happened?
What happened?

1699
01:19:42,695 --> 01:19:44,030
[man 3] He was shot.

1700
01:19:44,155 --> 01:19:47,909
[indistinct yelling and talking]

1701
01:19:49,577 --> 01:19:51,788
Occupy Wall Street
was a constructive failure,

1702
01:19:51,913 --> 01:19:54,540
but it taught us
something very important.

1703
01:19:54,665 --> 01:19:56,584
We need to pair protests
with gaining sovereignty,

1704
01:19:56,709 --> 01:19:58,252
which means either
pairing protests

1705
01:19:58,377 --> 01:19:59,670
with winning elections,
or pairing protests

1706
01:19:59,796 --> 01:20:01,130
with winning wars.

1707
01:20:01,255 --> 01:20:02,340
And you can choose
as an activist.

1708
01:20:02,465 --> 01:20:04,008
I would advocate elections.

1709
01:20:04,133 --> 01:20:05,593
There's only so many times
you can have

1710
01:20:05,718 --> 01:20:07,386
teargas fired into your face

1711
01:20:07,512 --> 01:20:09,514
and get hit over the head
by a police baton

1712
01:20:09,639 --> 01:20:11,182
or be dragged off to jail.

1713
01:20:11,307 --> 01:20:13,267
And after a while, you say,

1714
01:20:13,392 --> 01:20:14,560
"You know,
we're going to do something

1715
01:20:14,685 --> 01:20:16,229
at the level
of politics now."

1716
01:20:16,354 --> 01:20:19,482
But all those movements
face the challenge:

1717
01:20:19,607 --> 01:20:20,817
What do you stand for?

1718
01:20:21,776 --> 01:20:24,028
Are you actually
going to challenge

1719
01:20:24,153 --> 01:20:26,489
the power of corporations?

1720
01:20:26,614 --> 01:20:28,950
This is what the 2020s
will be about.

1721
01:20:29,075 --> 01:20:31,661
[upbeat chiming
percussion music]

1722
01:20:36,165 --> 01:20:38,918
[newscaster] <i>We turn now</i>
<i>to Seattle, Washington,</i>

1723
01:20:39,043 --> 01:20:41,629
<i>where a former
Occupy Wall Street activist</i>

1724
01:20:41,754 --> 01:20:44,882
<i>is being sworn in today
to the City Council.</i>

1725
01:20:45,007 --> 01:20:47,885
We have shown
that it's possible to succeed

1726
01:20:48,010 --> 01:20:50,555
as an independent, grassroots,

1727
01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:53,140
openly socialist campaign,

1728
01:20:53,266 --> 01:20:56,435
not taking any money
from big business.

1729
01:20:56,561 --> 01:20:58,396
This moment belongs

1730
01:20:58,521 --> 01:21:01,440
to that way of organizing.

1731
01:21:01,566 --> 01:21:04,151
Kshama becomes
the first socialist

1732
01:21:04,277 --> 01:21:07,196
elected to...
to the Seattle City Council

1733
01:21:07,321 --> 01:21:09,824
since the early 20th century.

1734
01:21:09,949 --> 01:21:12,827
Her signature issue was

1735
01:21:12,952 --> 01:21:14,704
$15 an hour minimum wage.

1736
01:21:16,122 --> 01:21:18,207
[Kshama] There were
courageous workers

1737
01:21:18,332 --> 01:21:20,877
of McDonald's
and other fast food outlets

1738
01:21:21,002 --> 01:21:23,921
who went out
on a one-day strike.

1739
01:21:25,590 --> 01:21:27,508
"$15 and a Union"
was their slogan.

1740
01:21:28,551 --> 01:21:31,262
[narrator] <i>On the 15th</i>
<i>of May 2014,</i>

1741
01:21:31,387 --> 01:21:33,764
<i>thousands of fast food workers
flooded the streets</i>

1742
01:21:33,890 --> 01:21:36,058
<i>of 150 U.S. cities,</i>

1743
01:21:36,183 --> 01:21:39,395
<i>striking to demand
a $15 minimum wage,</i>

1744
01:21:39,520 --> 01:21:41,022
<i>better working conditions,</i>

1745
01:21:41,147 --> 01:21:42,607
<i>and the right to form a union.</i>

1746
01:21:42,732 --> 01:21:45,401
[Kshama] We organized
ordinary people:

1747
01:21:45,526 --> 01:21:48,279
Workers,
rank and file union members,

1748
01:21:48,404 --> 01:21:51,157
and activists
who wanted to fight for $15.

1749
01:21:53,784 --> 01:21:56,621
If you're actually going to be
true to the movement,

1750
01:21:56,746 --> 01:21:59,290
if you're going to be
accountable to all these people

1751
01:21:59,415 --> 01:22:01,876
you claim to represent
once you're elected,

1752
01:22:02,001 --> 01:22:04,921
it does require you
to take a bold

1753
01:22:05,046 --> 01:22:08,299
and strong stance against
the corporate politicians.

1754
01:22:08,424 --> 01:22:10,134
If they are not on your side,

1755
01:22:10,259 --> 01:22:11,552
then you have to fight
against them.

1756
01:22:11,677 --> 01:22:12,803
You're duty bound.

1757
01:22:12,929 --> 01:22:15,014
After over a billion dollars

1758
01:22:15,139 --> 01:22:18,184
of taxes that Amazon
owes to the IRS,

1759
01:22:18,309 --> 01:22:19,852
they now get a break

1760
01:22:19,977 --> 01:22:23,105
of $789 million.

1761
01:22:24,065 --> 01:22:26,067
[man] Her campaign
wins so many supporters

1762
01:22:26,192 --> 01:22:29,904
that Seattle becomes
the first major city in America

1763
01:22:30,029 --> 01:22:33,240
to adopt $15 an hour
minimum wage.

1764
01:22:33,366 --> 01:22:34,951
And that starts the ball rolling

1765
01:22:35,076 --> 01:22:36,786
as more and more
cities across the nation

1766
01:22:36,911 --> 01:22:38,913
have followed
the example of Seattle.

1767
01:22:40,247 --> 01:22:43,459
[Kshama] If you empower workers
by giving them

1768
01:22:43,584 --> 01:22:45,169
a better standard of living,

1769
01:22:45,294 --> 01:22:47,254
it's not going to stop there.

1770
01:22:47,380 --> 01:22:49,090
It raises their sights,

1771
01:22:49,215 --> 01:22:50,925
the confidence
of working people,

1772
01:22:51,050 --> 01:22:52,885
towards a different
kind of society.

1773
01:22:54,261 --> 01:22:55,846
You don't need
a PhD in economics

1774
01:22:55,972 --> 01:22:57,974
to know that your life sucks
under capitalism,

1775
01:22:58,099 --> 01:23:01,018
and we've got to build
a movement to fight for it.

1776
01:23:01,143 --> 01:23:03,896
[crowd] Four more years!
Four more years!

1777
01:23:04,021 --> 01:23:06,065
Four more years!

1778
01:23:06,816 --> 01:23:09,151
[narrator] <i>In 2019,</i>
<i>Kshama Sawant</i>

1779
01:23:09,276 --> 01:23:13,072
<i>was elected to a third term
on Seattle City Council,</i>

1780
01:23:13,197 --> 01:23:16,492
<i>despite Amazon spending
$1.5 million</i>

1781
01:23:16,617 --> 01:23:18,327
<i>to try to unseat her.</i>

1782
01:23:18,452 --> 01:23:20,788
[breath exhaling]

1783
01:23:24,208 --> 01:23:25,793
[Juan] Kshama was pioneering

1784
01:23:25,918 --> 01:23:28,129
the new urban renaissance

1785
01:23:28,254 --> 01:23:32,341
starting around 2013,

1786
01:23:32,466 --> 01:23:34,510
and '14 especially,

1787
01:23:34,635 --> 01:23:37,346
a whole new movement developed
of grassroots organizations

1788
01:23:37,471 --> 01:23:39,515
from various movements
that then united

1789
01:23:39,640 --> 01:23:41,475
to elect for the first time,

1790
01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:44,562
representatives of their
perspectives into office.

1791
01:23:44,687 --> 01:23:46,313
You had a whole wave of people,

1792
01:23:46,439 --> 01:23:49,567
all of whom were
not expected to have a chance.

1793
01:23:49,692 --> 01:23:51,986
All of them are running
on more or less

1794
01:23:52,111 --> 01:23:53,863
the same platform
that income inequality

1795
01:23:53,988 --> 01:23:55,906
is the moral issue of our time.

1796
01:23:56,032 --> 01:23:59,201
And they were not just
part of the U.S. movement.

1797
01:23:59,326 --> 01:24:01,328
But you had Sadiq Khan,

1798
01:24:01,454 --> 01:24:04,040
the first Muslim elected
to the mayoralty of London.

1799
01:24:04,165 --> 01:24:06,375
You had Anne Hidalgo,
a leading environmentalist

1800
01:24:06,500 --> 01:24:08,294
and socialist of Europe,

1801
01:24:08,419 --> 01:24:10,171
winning the mayoralty of Paris.

1802
01:24:10,296 --> 01:24:11,630
Carmen Yulin Cruz,

1803
01:24:11,756 --> 01:24:13,299
the mayor of San Juan,
Puerto Rico.

1804
01:24:13,424 --> 01:24:16,635
And you had
Ada Colau in Barcelona.

1805
01:24:20,431 --> 01:24:23,100
[door thumping and cracking]

1806
01:24:24,435 --> 01:24:26,937
In the wake of the mortgage

1807
01:24:27,063 --> 01:24:28,814
meltdown worldwide,

1808
01:24:28,939 --> 01:24:31,317
there were thousands
of Spanish homeowners

1809
01:24:31,442 --> 01:24:34,820
being evicted from their houses
by international banks,

1810
01:24:34,945 --> 01:24:37,656
and Ada Colau begins to lead

1811
01:24:37,782 --> 01:24:40,117
a resistance movement
of the homeowners.

1812
01:24:40,242 --> 01:24:45,081
Fundamental
rights are non-negotiable!

1813
01:24:45,206 --> 01:24:48,042
It was a very tough fight

1814
01:24:48,167 --> 01:24:52,254
to stop home evictions and
force the banks to negotiate

1815
01:24:52,379 --> 01:24:56,383
with these families so
they could keep their homes

1816
01:24:56,509 --> 01:25:00,096
or, at a minimum,
not to have a debt for life.

1817
01:25:00,596 --> 01:25:02,556
Why are you doing this?
We're not criminals!

1818
01:25:02,681 --> 01:25:04,391
This is our home!

1819
01:25:04,517 --> 01:25:07,686
We will stop this eviction!
We will stop this eviction!

1820
01:25:07,812 --> 01:25:09,897
[Juan] Through mass protests
and civil disobedience,

1821
01:25:10,022 --> 01:25:11,857
she gains a name for herself

1822
01:25:11,982 --> 01:25:14,485
as a defender of the homeowners.

1823
01:25:14,610 --> 01:25:15,986
The Platform for People
Affected by Mortgages (PAH)

1824
01:25:16,112 --> 01:25:18,364
has stopped the eviction
of a family

1825
01:25:18,489 --> 01:25:20,699
that was to take place this
morning.

1826
01:25:20,825 --> 01:25:25,287
Nobody's coming in here!

1827
01:25:25,412 --> 01:25:27,915
The President of the
bank can make decisions,

1828
01:25:28,040 --> 01:25:30,000
and until he arrives,

1829
01:25:30,126 --> 01:25:31,627
we're not leaving.

1830
01:25:31,752 --> 01:25:33,546
We encountered an
existing government

1831
01:25:33,671 --> 01:25:36,048
that had colluded with
the financial interests,

1832
01:25:36,173 --> 01:25:38,926
the banks,
and big corporations -

1833
01:25:39,051 --> 01:25:41,303
many of us asked ourselves,

1834
01:25:41,428 --> 01:25:43,639
maybe it is
necessary to step forward

1835
01:25:43,764 --> 01:25:45,724
and regain
control of the government.

1836
01:25:45,850 --> 01:25:47,560
and recover what is ours.

1837
01:25:49,019 --> 01:25:51,939
Many of us
wondered if the moment

1838
01:25:52,064 --> 01:25:54,525
had arrived to
launch a political candidacy,

1839
01:25:54,650 --> 01:25:57,611
to make politics a
more democratic process

1840
01:25:57,736 --> 01:25:59,613
than what it had been before.

1841
01:25:59,738 --> 01:26:01,699
Thank you!

1842
01:26:03,450 --> 01:26:06,453
[rhythmic clapping music]

1843
01:26:07,121 --> 01:26:09,915
I came to be the first
woman mayor of Barcelona.

1844
01:26:11,125 --> 01:26:13,002
With our arrival to city hall

1845
01:26:13,127 --> 01:26:15,421
all the elites in
power saw us as intruders

1846
01:26:15,546 --> 01:26:18,007
we had the
telephone numbers of no-one,

1847
01:26:18,132 --> 01:26:20,009
absolutely no-one
that was representative

1848
01:26:20,134 --> 01:26:23,262
of the city's economic power.

1849
01:26:25,472 --> 01:26:27,183
[Juan] What's different
about this movement

1850
01:26:27,308 --> 01:26:28,851
is that
the progressives have seen

1851
01:26:28,976 --> 01:26:32,021
the necessity
to actually capture office.

1852
01:26:32,146 --> 01:26:34,231
Then also
once they get into office,

1853
01:26:34,356 --> 01:26:36,025
they've understood the necessity

1854
01:26:36,150 --> 01:26:37,860
for continuing to be connected

1855
01:26:37,985 --> 01:26:40,362
to the grassroots movements
that got them there.

1856
01:26:42,448 --> 01:26:44,366
Barcelona is now the leader

1857
01:26:44,491 --> 01:26:46,243
fighting against home evictions,

1858
01:26:46,368 --> 01:26:50,372
more than any other government
institution in all of Spain.

1859
01:26:51,415 --> 01:26:54,460
We are the city that invests
the most in social programs

1860
01:26:54,585 --> 01:26:56,128
in the entire country.

1861
01:26:56,253 --> 01:26:58,172
[narrator] <i>In 2019,</i>

1862
01:26:58,297 --> 01:27:00,507
<i>more than 200 leading thinkers</i>

1863
01:27:00,633 --> 01:27:04,011
<i>and activists endorsed
Colau's bid for re-election.</i>

1864
01:27:05,179 --> 01:27:07,014
<i>"Barcelona has become
a beacon of hope,"</i>

1865
01:27:07,139 --> 01:27:09,016
<i>they wrote,
"proving that we don't</i>

1866
01:27:09,141 --> 01:27:12,353
<i>have to be afraid of standing
up to corporate power,</i>

1867
01:27:12,478 --> 01:27:15,898
<i>that there is another way
of doing politics</i>

1868
01:27:16,023 --> 01:27:17,524
<i>that puts people
at the center."</i>

1869
01:27:19,235 --> 01:27:22,488
<i>Colau was re-elected mayor
in June 2019.</i>

1870
01:27:22,613 --> 01:27:25,199
[upbeat percussion music]

1871
01:27:27,993 --> 01:27:29,995
Seeing the documentary,
The Corporation,

1872
01:27:30,120 --> 01:27:31,914
it opened my eyes.

1873
01:27:32,039 --> 01:27:33,666
[narrator] <i>This is</i>
<i>Chris Barrett.</i>

1874
01:27:33,791 --> 01:27:36,293
<i>He appeared in our first film,</i>

1875
01:27:36,418 --> 01:27:37,920
<i>featured as one of the first</i>

1876
01:27:38,045 --> 01:27:39,588
<i>corporate-sponsored
college students.</i>

1877
01:27:40,923 --> 01:27:42,466
[Chris] I saw Tiger Woods on TV

1878
01:27:42,591 --> 01:27:44,510
with a hat
with a Nike logo on it.

1879
01:27:44,635 --> 01:27:46,720
And we figured, you know,
he probably gets like,

1880
01:27:46,845 --> 01:27:48,138
millions of dollars
just to wear the hat

1881
01:27:48,264 --> 01:27:49,473
on a press conference.

1882
01:27:49,598 --> 01:27:50,808
And therefore, we figured

1883
01:27:50,933 --> 01:27:52,142
we can do that for someone else,

1884
01:27:52,268 --> 01:27:53,894
and hopefully get money in turn

1885
01:27:54,019 --> 01:27:55,771
so we can go to school.

1886
01:27:56,605 --> 01:27:58,232
You guys were poking fun at us,

1887
01:27:58,357 --> 01:28:00,693
but we were 18-year-old kids.

1888
01:28:00,818 --> 01:28:03,237
Seeing The Corporation,

1889
01:28:03,362 --> 01:28:05,322
my... my mind
just, like, kind of exploded.

1890
01:28:05,447 --> 01:28:06,991
It was just like,

1891
01:28:07,116 --> 01:28:10,452
I had never been exposed
to this mindset before.

1892
01:28:11,287 --> 01:28:12,997
I was having lunch
with my grandfather

1893
01:28:13,122 --> 01:28:15,332
and I asked him, "Who should
the Democratic nominee be?"

1894
01:28:15,457 --> 01:28:16,875
And he told me at the time

1895
01:28:17,001 --> 01:28:19,128
that Bernie Sanders
looks pretty good.

1896
01:28:19,253 --> 01:28:20,462
I went home and I researched

1897
01:28:20,587 --> 01:28:22,423
Bernie's platform and I realized

1898
01:28:22,548 --> 01:28:24,091
that internally, like, I align

1899
01:28:24,216 --> 01:28:26,593
with a lot that Bernie says.

1900
01:28:26,719 --> 01:28:28,220
This great nation

1901
01:28:28,345 --> 01:28:31,557
and its government belong
to all of the people

1902
01:28:31,682 --> 01:28:34,310
and not to a handful
of billionaires.

1903
01:28:34,435 --> 01:28:37,271
[crowd cheering]

1904
01:28:37,396 --> 01:28:39,356
[Chris] And I got connected
to Grassroots for Sanders.

1905
01:28:39,481 --> 01:28:40,774
They offered me a position

1906
01:28:40,899 --> 01:28:42,943
of Assistant Fundraising Manager

1907
01:28:43,068 --> 01:28:44,695
where I could be able to do

1908
01:28:44,820 --> 01:28:46,447
the fundraising asks on Reddit.

1909
01:28:47,906 --> 01:28:51,076
[upbeat, melodious
synthesizer music]

1910
01:28:54,705 --> 01:28:56,749
We were able to raise
over $10 million

1911
01:28:56,874 --> 01:28:58,667
directly to Bernie Sanders'
campaign.

1912
01:29:01,086 --> 01:29:02,379
Some of the field offices,

1913
01:29:02,504 --> 01:29:04,173
people would come
through the door

1914
01:29:04,298 --> 01:29:06,383
and they would say,
"How do I get involved?

1915
01:29:06,508 --> 01:29:08,010
I have never
voted in my life."

1916
01:29:12,056 --> 01:29:13,390
One of Bernie's messages

1917
01:29:13,515 --> 01:29:16,226
after he lost
his presidential run

1918
01:29:16,352 --> 01:29:18,979
was that local people
could take back the power

1919
01:29:19,104 --> 01:29:20,647
and we could run for office.

1920
01:29:20,773 --> 01:29:22,483
I met a local
political organizer

1921
01:29:22,608 --> 01:29:24,568
in my town of Collingswood.

1922
01:29:24,693 --> 01:29:27,863
He was putting together a slate
of progressive candidates.

1923
01:29:27,988 --> 01:29:29,490
I thought that was
a brilliant idea.

1924
01:29:29,615 --> 01:29:32,284
It was exactly
what Bernie wanted us to do.

1925
01:29:32,409 --> 01:29:34,536
And I signed the form,

1926
01:29:34,661 --> 01:29:36,663
and we were running for office.

1927
01:29:36,789 --> 01:29:38,832
I don't think
when I was out there

1928
01:29:38,957 --> 01:29:40,667
getting a corporate sponsor
that I realized

1929
01:29:40,793 --> 01:29:43,420
that in 16 years
I would be an elected official

1930
01:29:43,545 --> 01:29:45,255
in New Jersey.

1931
01:29:45,381 --> 01:29:47,633
I'm going to stay on this path
and I'm going to continue

1932
01:29:47,758 --> 01:29:50,052
down this political route
until we have

1933
01:29:50,177 --> 01:29:52,846
the progressive party
of the future.

1934
01:29:54,807 --> 01:29:56,975
Historically,
progressive movements

1935
01:29:57,101 --> 01:29:59,853
were more interested about
building power in the streets,

1936
01:29:59,978 --> 01:30:02,481
which is an important thing,
and they kind of neglected

1937
01:30:02,606 --> 01:30:04,066
running for office.

1938
01:30:04,942 --> 01:30:06,777
I think now, progressives
are starting to see

1939
01:30:06,902 --> 01:30:09,655
the nature of power,
where it lies,

1940
01:30:09,780 --> 01:30:11,198
and the reason
to contest for it.

1941
01:30:12,491 --> 01:30:14,410
Now we have
thousands of people saying,

1942
01:30:14,535 --> 01:30:16,078
"Hey, I want
to run for office."

1943
01:30:17,704 --> 01:30:19,164
It's common to say, you know,

1944
01:30:19,289 --> 01:30:22,668
that the Sanders' campaign
failed.

1945
01:30:22,793 --> 01:30:24,461
I think that's a mistake.

1946
01:30:24,586 --> 01:30:27,339
I think it was
an extraordinary success,

1947
01:30:27,464 --> 01:30:29,258
completely shifted

1948
01:30:29,383 --> 01:30:33,220
the arena of debate
and discussion,

1949
01:30:33,345 --> 01:30:36,014
issues that were unthinkable

1950
01:30:36,140 --> 01:30:37,641
a couple of years ago

1951
01:30:37,766 --> 01:30:39,685
are now right
in the middle of attention.

1952
01:30:40,811 --> 01:30:42,438
[narrator]
<i>The Sanders' campaign</i>

1953
01:30:42,563 --> 01:30:44,481
<i>took to the larger
political stage</i>

1954
01:30:44,606 --> 01:30:46,483
<i>the kind of politics
being practiced</i>

1955
01:30:46,608 --> 01:30:48,318
<i>by local politicians...</i>

1956
01:30:49,278 --> 01:30:51,029
<i>like Sawant, Colau,</i>

1957
01:30:51,155 --> 01:30:52,698
<i>and Barrett:</i>

1958
01:30:53,615 --> 01:30:56,910
<i>electoral politics interwoven
with grassroots activism.</i>

1959
01:30:59,663 --> 01:31:03,584
[Noam] Some form
of green New Deal is essential

1960
01:31:03,709 --> 01:31:06,003
for the survival of humanity.

1961
01:31:06,128 --> 01:31:09,131
Now it's part
of the general agenda.

1962
01:31:09,256 --> 01:31:10,591
Why?

1963
01:31:10,716 --> 01:31:14,219
Activist engagement,
young people,

1964
01:31:14,344 --> 01:31:16,180
they receive support

1965
01:31:16,305 --> 01:31:18,974
from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

1966
01:31:19,099 --> 01:31:21,101
and other young legislators

1967
01:31:21,226 --> 01:31:23,187
who came into office

1968
01:31:23,312 --> 01:31:26,607
as part of the Sanders inspired

1969
01:31:26,732 --> 01:31:28,484
popular wave.

1970
01:31:32,321 --> 01:31:33,947
I think the next
wave of revolutions

1971
01:31:34,072 --> 01:31:36,200
really is going to be
this kind of strange thing

1972
01:31:36,325 --> 01:31:38,118
where we wake up and we're like,

1973
01:31:38,243 --> 01:31:40,454
"Oh my gosh,
there's this social movement.

1974
01:31:40,579 --> 01:31:42,039
They're in the streets,

1975
01:31:42,164 --> 01:31:43,916
but they're
running election campaigns?

1976
01:31:44,041 --> 01:31:46,335
They have candidates?
And they're winning?"

1977
01:31:46,460 --> 01:31:49,213
[upbeat synthesizer music]

1978
01:31:52,716 --> 01:31:54,384
[narrator] <i>Whatever</i>
<i>form it takes,</i>

1979
01:31:54,510 --> 01:31:56,512
<i>change always begins
with organizing.</i>

1980
01:31:57,471 --> 01:32:00,766
<i>2018 is going to be the year
that we take the toxic,</i>

1981
01:32:00,891 --> 01:32:03,519
<i>stultified politics
of climate change</i>

1982
01:32:03,644 --> 01:32:05,145
<i>and turn it on its head.</i>

1983
01:32:05,270 --> 01:32:07,272
<i>And it starts
with stopping Adani.</i>

1984
01:32:07,397 --> 01:32:09,942
[Sam] Our aim
is to move the world

1985
01:32:10,067 --> 01:32:12,694
away from fossil fuels
as fast as possible.

1986
01:32:12,819 --> 01:32:14,988
The Wangan and Jagalingou people

1987
01:32:15,113 --> 01:32:17,032
have a different struggle,

1988
01:32:17,157 --> 01:32:19,701
which is to protect their land

1989
01:32:19,826 --> 01:32:21,495
and to win land rights.

1990
01:32:22,996 --> 01:32:26,083
[Murrawah] Adani has tried
to rip our people apart.

1991
01:32:26,208 --> 01:32:28,961
It's actually brought
our people together as well.

1992
01:32:29,086 --> 01:32:31,755
And we've been
able to think about

1993
01:32:31,880 --> 01:32:33,840
what is our alternative future?

1994
01:32:33,966 --> 01:32:35,259
What do we want to build?

1995
01:32:36,093 --> 01:32:39,096
And it's not
extractive industries

1996
01:32:39,221 --> 01:32:42,140
that governments
and other corporations

1997
01:32:42,266 --> 01:32:43,600
would like it to be.

1998
01:32:44,685 --> 01:32:46,395
What we set out to do

1999
01:32:46,520 --> 01:32:49,565
is support a whole range
of organizations

2000
01:32:49,690 --> 01:32:52,150
and individuals to work
together to achieve

2001
01:32:52,276 --> 01:32:54,570
much bigger change
than any one organization

2002
01:32:54,695 --> 01:32:56,238
could achieve working alone.

2003
01:32:56,363 --> 01:32:59,074
We want to lose control

2004
01:32:59,199 --> 01:33:01,118
of as many people as possible

2005
01:33:01,243 --> 01:33:02,786
headed in the right direction.

2006
01:33:04,079 --> 01:33:05,330
[John] We figured
that the only way

2007
01:33:05,455 --> 01:33:06,790
we could really stop the project

2008
01:33:06,915 --> 01:33:08,584
is stopping
them getting financed.

2009
01:33:08,709 --> 01:33:11,169
[Sam] Yes, they need
the permits and the approvals,

2010
01:33:11,295 --> 01:33:14,131
but Adani also needs money.

2011
01:33:14,256 --> 01:33:15,799
[narrator] <i>Both stop Adani,</i>

2012
01:33:15,924 --> 01:33:17,759
<i>and the Wangan
and Jagalingou people</i>

2013
01:33:17,884 --> 01:33:20,554
<i>pushed to halt funding
of the Adani coal mine.</i>

2014
01:33:20,679 --> 01:33:22,889
[Murrawah] We met
with some of the largest banks

2015
01:33:23,015 --> 01:33:24,683
in the world and said,

2016
01:33:24,808 --> 01:33:28,228
"You need to acknowledge
that any investment

2017
01:33:28,353 --> 01:33:30,606
in the Adani Carmichael
coal mine

2018
01:33:30,731 --> 01:33:33,567
will be a breach
of your obligations

2019
01:33:33,692 --> 01:33:36,320
to us as the Indigenous people
who have said no."

2020
01:33:37,529 --> 01:33:38,822
Within a month,

2021
01:33:38,947 --> 01:33:40,407
Standard Chartered
came out publicly

2022
01:33:40,532 --> 01:33:42,701
and said
that they would not be giving

2023
01:33:42,826 --> 01:33:44,161
any money to Adani.

2024
01:33:44,286 --> 01:33:46,163
That was after <i>...</i>

2025
01:33:46,288 --> 01:33:48,832
they had already given them
$680 million.

2026
01:33:48,957 --> 01:33:50,917
[narrator] <i>The two</i>
<i>campaigns together</i>

2027
01:33:51,043 --> 01:33:53,837
<i>succeeded in stopping funding
from all banks worldwide.</i>

2028
01:33:54,630 --> 01:33:56,256
<i>Then they won again,</i>

2029
01:33:56,381 --> 01:33:57,841
<i>blocking the Australian
government's attempt</i>

2030
01:33:57,966 --> 01:34:01,178
<i>to fill the gap
with a $1 billion loan.</i>

2031
01:34:01,303 --> 01:34:03,305
It was a huge victory for us

2032
01:34:03,430 --> 01:34:04,806
because we were told
it was something

2033
01:34:04,931 --> 01:34:06,558
that couldn't be done.

2034
01:34:07,559 --> 01:34:09,353
[narrator] <i>Adani</i>
<i>and his government allies</i>

2035
01:34:09,478 --> 01:34:11,772
<i>continue their push
for the mine to go forward.</i>

2036
01:34:12,606 --> 01:34:15,233
<i>And yet
not a single lump of coal</i>

2037
01:34:15,359 --> 01:34:17,402
<i>has been mined to date.</i>

2038
01:34:17,527 --> 01:34:18,945
<i>The resistance continues.</i>

2039
01:34:20,364 --> 01:34:22,574
[Murrawah]
All of my life

2040
01:34:22,699 --> 01:34:24,785
I have been told

2041
01:34:24,910 --> 01:34:27,579
who I am through stories
about the people

2042
01:34:27,704 --> 01:34:29,206
that I come from.

2043
01:34:29,331 --> 01:34:33,043
Without their resistance
and their resilience,

2044
01:34:33,168 --> 01:34:34,753
I would not be here.

2045
01:34:34,878 --> 01:34:36,213
It's come down to me.

2046
01:34:37,005 --> 01:34:40,133
And I refuse to be
the broken link in the chain.

2047
01:34:41,510 --> 01:34:43,136
[John] The fight
over the Adani coal mine

2048
01:34:43,261 --> 01:34:47,015
has become a symbol
whether corporations

2049
01:34:47,140 --> 01:34:49,226
can continue to ride roughshod

2050
01:34:49,351 --> 01:34:51,895
over the wishes of the community

2051
01:34:52,020 --> 01:34:53,480
and create a future

2052
01:34:53,605 --> 01:34:56,274
that is in their
financial interests alone,

2053
01:34:56,400 --> 01:34:57,818
or whether the community

2054
01:34:57,943 --> 01:35:00,195
actually can build
enough power to say,

2055
01:35:00,320 --> 01:35:02,030
"No, that is not
the future we want.

2056
01:35:02,155 --> 01:35:03,532
We want a safe future

2057
01:35:03,657 --> 01:35:04,950
with a safe climate
for everybody."

2058
01:35:05,075 --> 01:35:06,827
[pensive electronic music]

2059
01:35:10,956 --> 01:35:13,125
There is this global network.

2060
01:35:13,250 --> 01:35:15,585
There's a big fight
brewing in Argentina

2061
01:35:15,711 --> 01:35:17,921
against fracking corporations,

2062
01:35:18,046 --> 01:35:19,756
against coal expansion
in South Africa

2063
01:35:19,881 --> 01:35:23,051
and the Philippines,
in India and Poland.

2064
01:35:24,177 --> 01:35:26,847
There's campaigns
against pipelines in Canada:

2065
01:35:26,972 --> 01:35:29,850
Kinder Morgan, Keystone XL,

2066
01:35:29,975 --> 01:35:31,560
the fight at Standing Rock.

2067
01:35:34,688 --> 01:35:36,648
[Kukpi7 Judy]
Our Indigenous people

2068
01:35:36,773 --> 01:35:38,900
have been on the front lines
way before my time.

2069
01:35:40,026 --> 01:35:43,363
It's about the land,
the water...

2070
01:35:43,488 --> 01:35:47,325
our inherent jurisdiction
as caretakers of Mother Earth.

2071
01:35:48,618 --> 01:35:50,287
[Grand Chief Stewart]
But it's not just

2072
01:35:50,412 --> 01:35:52,456
an Indigenous struggle.

2073
01:35:52,581 --> 01:35:54,624
It's a struggle of humanity.

2074
01:35:54,750 --> 01:35:56,501
We need to come together

2075
01:35:56,626 --> 01:35:59,004
to push back
the corporate agenda.

2076
01:36:00,130 --> 01:36:02,424
All people, all races

2077
01:36:02,549 --> 01:36:04,926
are beginning to realize
we're in this together.

2078
01:36:05,051 --> 01:36:07,429
[crowd] We will rise.
We will rise.

2079
01:36:07,554 --> 01:36:09,848
You cannot un-ring a bell.

2080
01:36:14,394 --> 01:36:17,314
Our civilization
is being sacrificed

2081
01:36:17,439 --> 01:36:18,690
for the opportunity

2082
01:36:18,815 --> 01:36:20,817
of a very small number of people

2083
01:36:20,942 --> 01:36:23,862
to continue making
enormous amounts of money.

2084
01:36:25,739 --> 01:36:27,282
We have not come here

2085
01:36:27,407 --> 01:36:29,326
to beg world leaders to care.

2086
01:36:30,243 --> 01:36:31,995
You have ignored us in the past

2087
01:36:32,120 --> 01:36:33,789
and you will ignore us again.

2088
01:36:35,290 --> 01:36:38,460
You have run out of excuses
and we are running out of time.

2089
01:36:40,212 --> 01:36:42,172
We have come here
to let you know

2090
01:36:42,297 --> 01:36:45,342
that change is coming,
whether you like it or not.

2091
01:36:46,468 --> 01:36:48,678
The real power
belongs to the people.

2092
01:36:53,850 --> 01:36:56,520
If we are
really wanting to address

2093
01:36:56,645 --> 01:36:58,897
the deep problems
of social, racial,

2094
01:36:59,022 --> 01:37:01,233
and gender injustice
in our society,

2095
01:37:01,358 --> 01:37:04,110
then we need to think
of lessons from history.

2096
01:37:07,155 --> 01:37:09,241
[Michael] One thing that's
remarkable is just that <i>...</i>

2097
01:37:10,742 --> 01:37:11,952
people keep struggling.

2098
01:37:14,371 --> 01:37:16,289
That in the worst situations,

2099
01:37:16,414 --> 01:37:17,999
people always fight.

2100
01:37:20,001 --> 01:37:21,670
Even when you thought...

2101
01:37:22,504 --> 01:37:24,005
nothing was possible,

2102
01:37:24,130 --> 01:37:26,633
you look
at the political situation

2103
01:37:26,758 --> 01:37:28,218
and think how bad it is,

2104
01:37:28,343 --> 01:37:31,763
then something beautiful
and inspiring comes out.

2105
01:37:31,888 --> 01:37:34,599
[upbeat rhythmic
orchestral instrumental]

2106
01:37:38,895 --> 01:37:40,856
[narrator] <i>In the spring</i>
<i>of 2020,</i>

2107
01:37:40,981 --> 01:37:42,232
<i>the world shut down.</i>

2108
01:37:43,108 --> 01:37:45,318
<i>But people's hearts opened wide.</i>

2109
01:37:45,443 --> 01:37:50,448
?

2110
01:37:52,701 --> 01:37:55,495
[sirens wailing]

2111
01:37:58,415 --> 01:38:01,084
[bells jangling]

2112
01:38:02,252 --> 01:38:03,712
One of the most beautiful
things I've seen

2113
01:38:03,837 --> 01:38:06,298
during the crisis
is the way workers

2114
01:38:06,423 --> 01:38:08,300
in a variety of sectors

2115
01:38:08,425 --> 01:38:09,551
have refused.

2116
01:38:09,676 --> 01:38:11,011
Have refused to go along

2117
01:38:11,136 --> 01:38:13,221
with putting workers in danger.

2118
01:38:13,346 --> 01:38:15,015
Amazon workers striking,

2119
01:38:15,932 --> 01:38:17,726
FedEx workers walking out,

2120
01:38:17,851 --> 01:38:21,146
but also health care workers
put in dangerous situations.

2121
01:38:22,439 --> 01:38:26,234
This foresees
the kinds of struggles

2122
01:38:26,359 --> 01:38:28,153
that will emerge
from this crisis

2123
01:38:28,278 --> 01:38:32,073
that confront the inequalities
of this economy.

2124
01:38:34,784 --> 01:38:37,579
[Stacy] The pandemic
has revealed

2125
01:38:37,704 --> 01:38:39,623
that there is broad support

2126
01:38:39,748 --> 01:38:42,918
for the idea that we need
to contain corporate power...

2127
01:38:43,793 --> 01:38:45,086
so that we live in a society

2128
01:38:45,211 --> 01:38:47,505
where we reinvigorate democracy,

2129
01:38:47,631 --> 01:38:49,758
where we have
a sense of the public purpose,

2130
01:38:49,883 --> 01:38:51,843
and that we're not
simply at the mercy

2131
01:38:51,968 --> 01:38:53,511
of a few corporations

2132
01:38:53,637 --> 01:38:55,388
that increasingly run our lives.

2133
01:38:56,932 --> 01:38:59,684
[Robert] This can change
the way people think

2134
01:38:59,809 --> 01:39:01,102
about the system.

2135
01:39:01,227 --> 01:39:02,979
We owe one another

2136
01:39:03,104 --> 01:39:05,231
certain things,
certain minimum things.

2137
01:39:05,357 --> 01:39:07,984
That's been lost
in the last 40 years

2138
01:39:08,109 --> 01:39:10,153
of deregulation
and privatization

2139
01:39:10,278 --> 01:39:11,738
and the corporate takeover

2140
01:39:11,863 --> 01:39:13,448
of our political culture

2141
01:39:13,573 --> 01:39:15,033
and our political system.

2142
01:39:16,201 --> 01:39:18,787
[Kshama] It is starting
to dawn on society

2143
01:39:18,912 --> 01:39:20,413
as a whole that we're not

2144
01:39:20,538 --> 01:39:22,290
going to go back
to the old normal.

2145
01:39:22,415 --> 01:39:23,708
There's no such world

2146
01:39:23,833 --> 01:39:25,961
because the pandemic
has revealed

2147
01:39:26,086 --> 01:39:28,880
that the system is incapable

2148
01:39:29,005 --> 01:39:30,882
of addressing
even the most basic needs

2149
01:39:31,007 --> 01:39:32,050
of our society.

2150
01:39:33,134 --> 01:39:36,638
[narrator] <i>Then, as this film</i>
<i>was being finished,</i>

2151
01:39:36,763 --> 01:39:39,265
<i>George Floyd
is brutally killed by police.</i>

2152
01:39:40,100 --> 01:39:42,519
<i>A flashpoint
that ignites an uprising.</i>

2153
01:39:42,644 --> 01:39:44,187
[newscaster 1] <i>Thousands</i>
<i>took to the streets,</i>

2154
01:39:44,312 --> 01:39:46,481
<i>demanding justice
for George Floyd.</i>

2155
01:39:46,606 --> 01:39:48,358
[newscaster 2] <i>The death</i>
<i>of a Black man pleading</i>

2156
01:39:48,483 --> 01:39:50,485
<i>that he can't breathe,
as a white officer</i>

2157
01:39:50,610 --> 01:39:52,237
<i>was kneeling on his neck.</i>

2158
01:39:52,362 --> 01:39:54,322
Justice! Now!

2159
01:39:54,447 --> 01:39:56,199
Black lives matter!

2160
01:39:56,324 --> 01:39:58,660
[Keeanga-Yamatta]
<i>Imagine how angry, desperate</i>

2161
01:39:58,785 --> 01:40:02,080
<i>you would have to be
to come out and protest</i>

2162
01:40:02,205 --> 01:40:04,916
<i>in the historical pandemic</i>

2163
01:40:05,041 --> 01:40:07,335
<i>that has had
a disproportionately</i>

2164
01:40:07,460 --> 01:40:08,837
<i>horrendous impact</i>

2165
01:40:08,962 --> 01:40:10,171
<i>in Black communities.</i>

2166
01:40:10,296 --> 01:40:12,757
Take your knee off our necks!

2167
01:40:12,882 --> 01:40:14,634
[crowd] Take your knee
off our necks!

2168
01:40:15,385 --> 01:40:18,179
[William] The [indistinct]
just trying to breathe

2169
01:40:18,304 --> 01:40:20,849
because of the weight
of poverty on our neck,

2170
01:40:20,974 --> 01:40:22,809
and the denial
of health care on our necks.

2171
01:40:24,519 --> 01:40:26,563
<i>Because what's happening is,
metaphorically,</i>

2172
01:40:26,688 --> 01:40:28,940
<i>the whole culture's saying,
"We can't breathe."</i>

2173
01:40:31,609 --> 01:40:34,904
[narrator] <i>Despite sometimes</i>
<i>brutal police repression,</i>

2174
01:40:35,030 --> 01:40:36,906
<i>the protests grew</i>

2175
01:40:37,032 --> 01:40:39,159
<i>and began to target
broader injustices</i>

2176
01:40:39,284 --> 01:40:40,994
<i>and distorted priorities.</i>

2177
01:40:41,119 --> 01:40:42,912
[woman] <i>Look at the gear</i>

2178
01:40:43,038 --> 01:40:44,622
<i>and the equipment that they have</i>

2179
01:40:44,748 --> 01:40:47,459
<i>compared to hospital workers</i>

2180
01:40:47,584 --> 01:40:49,961
<i>dressing themselves
in garbage bags,</i>

2181
01:40:50,086 --> 01:40:53,006
<i>being forced to use
the same N95 masks</i>

2182
01:40:53,131 --> 01:40:54,466
<i>for weeks at a time.</i>

2183
01:40:56,134 --> 01:40:57,927
[narrator] <i>The protests</i>
<i>quickly became</i>

2184
01:40:58,053 --> 01:41:00,680
<i>about more than racist policing:</i>

2185
01:41:00,805 --> 01:41:02,432
<i>confronting the echoes</i>

2186
01:41:02,557 --> 01:41:04,684
<i>of corporate capitalism's
racist past.</i>

2187
01:41:05,602 --> 01:41:08,938
Capitalism is racial capitalism.

2188
01:41:10,106 --> 01:41:13,026
The industrial revolution,
which pivoted

2189
01:41:13,151 --> 01:41:15,070
around the production
of capital,

2190
01:41:15,195 --> 01:41:18,907
was enabled by slave labor
in the U.S.

2191
01:41:19,032 --> 01:41:21,451
[crowd cheering]

2192
01:41:21,576 --> 01:41:23,203
[newscaster] <i>There are</i>
<i>calls to rethink</i>

2193
01:41:23,328 --> 01:41:25,663
<i>who we choose
to honor from our past.</i>

2194
01:41:26,706 --> 01:41:29,125
<i>Monuments to men
who were once honored,</i>

2195
01:41:29,250 --> 01:41:31,878
<i>now viewed
by a new generation as symbols</i>

2196
01:41:32,003 --> 01:41:33,922
<i>of racism and colonialism.</i>

2197
01:41:35,090 --> 01:41:37,133
[William] <i>People are</i>
<i>protesting because they know</i>

2198
01:41:37,258 --> 01:41:38,760
<i>it don't have to be like this.</i>

2199
01:41:39,552 --> 01:41:42,680
<i>People only protest what
they believe can be changed.</i>

2200
01:41:42,806 --> 01:41:44,474
<i>If folk didn't protest,</i>

2201
01:41:44,599 --> 01:41:46,559
<i>that meant
we really would be in trouble.</i>

2202
01:41:47,727 --> 01:41:49,687
[woman] <i>I don't believe</i>
<i>these are just protests</i>

2203
01:41:49,813 --> 01:41:51,648
<i>against police brutality.</i>

2204
01:41:51,773 --> 01:41:55,026
<i>We're seeing the convergence
of a class rebellion</i>

2205
01:41:55,151 --> 01:41:57,821
<i>with racism at the center of it.</i>

2206
01:41:57,946 --> 01:42:00,073
I believe without a doubt

2207
01:42:00,198 --> 01:42:02,117
that change will come
from this protest.

2208
01:42:02,242 --> 01:42:04,285
It is not just Black people.

2209
01:42:04,410 --> 01:42:07,539
[William] <i>We can't be</i>
<i>the same coming out of this.</i>

2210
01:42:07,664 --> 01:42:09,499
<i>Too many people are suffering.</i>

2211
01:42:09,624 --> 01:42:12,460
<i>We must make
our political system respond.</i>

2212
01:42:12,585 --> 01:42:14,087
<i>We must do it
in our deepest moral</i>

2213
01:42:14,212 --> 01:42:16,089
<i>and [indistinct] traditions.</i>

2214
01:42:16,214 --> 01:42:17,841
<i>But it must not be weak.</i>

2215
01:42:17,966 --> 01:42:19,425
<i>It has to be strong.</i>

2216
01:42:19,551 --> 01:42:21,469
<i>It has to last for an election</i>

2217
01:42:21,594 --> 01:42:23,012
<i>and beyond an election.</i>

2218
01:42:25,056 --> 01:42:27,642
[breath exhaling]

2219
01:42:27,767 --> 01:42:30,019
There is a whole
new spirit out there

2220
01:42:30,145 --> 01:42:33,857
that's saying, "500 years
of colonialism is enough.

2221
01:42:33,982 --> 01:42:37,694
200 years
of corporate rule is enough.

2222
01:42:38,736 --> 01:42:41,364
200 years of the building

2223
01:42:41,489 --> 01:42:44,284
of a fossil fuel age
is enough."

2224
01:42:44,409 --> 01:42:47,203
I see people who are waking up
to the realization that,

2225
01:42:47,328 --> 01:42:49,581
no, you don't go start an app

2226
01:42:49,706 --> 01:42:51,291
if you want to change the world.

2227
01:42:51,416 --> 01:42:53,168
You actually try
to change the world and de-rig

2228
01:42:53,293 --> 01:42:54,919
a rigged system.

2229
01:42:55,044 --> 01:42:57,755
And in a moment like this,
if you're not working

2230
01:42:57,881 --> 01:43:00,758
at that level
on those kinds of things,

2231
01:43:00,884 --> 01:43:03,136
you have to really ask yourself,

2232
01:43:03,261 --> 01:43:05,096
"What was your role
in this moment in history?"

2233
01:43:06,347 --> 01:43:08,016
We've been here before.

2234
01:43:08,141 --> 01:43:12,020
We've been at a place
where my ancestors

2235
01:43:12,145 --> 01:43:14,606
were bought and sold for profit.

2236
01:43:15,815 --> 01:43:17,275
We've been at a place

2237
01:43:17,400 --> 01:43:20,445
where people routinely died
on the job,

2238
01:43:20,570 --> 01:43:22,280
and over time,

2239
01:43:22,405 --> 01:43:25,950
movements of ordinary people
have broken the chains,

2240
01:43:26,075 --> 01:43:27,911
and have held corporations

2241
01:43:28,036 --> 01:43:29,787
and powerful people accountable,

2242
01:43:29,913 --> 01:43:32,373
and changed the rules
so that more people

2243
01:43:32,498 --> 01:43:35,043
can flourish
and feel truly free.

2244
01:43:35,168 --> 01:43:37,128
I think we are
in the midst of another one

2245
01:43:37,253 --> 01:43:40,340
of those movements right now,
where a lot of people

2246
01:43:40,465 --> 01:43:42,926
all across the world are saying,

2247
01:43:43,051 --> 01:43:44,594
"Enough is enough."

2248
01:43:44,719 --> 01:43:46,512
[breath exhaling]

2249
01:43:46,638 --> 01:43:48,598
[upbeat electronic music]

2250
01:43:48,723 --> 01:43:53,728
?

2251
01:44:23,258 --> 01:44:28,263
?

2252
01:44:57,000 --> 01:45:02,005
?

2253
01:45:31,200 --> 01:45:36,205
?

2254
01:46:05,360 --> 01:46:10,365
?

2255
01:46:38,851 --> 01:46:42,563
?