Inequality For All Analysis

Inequality for All is a fairly recent political documentary on the gap of economic wealth of the country. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, discusses the problems faced today and how they have been growing and will continue to grow. Released in 2013, Inequality for All was directed by Jacob Kornbluth, and received a box office gross of $1,205,273. This film is both statistics driven, and impassioned. The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. That is the statement that Inequality for All explains in depth. The film centers around three basic “characters”; Robert Reich’s poverty and inequality class at UC Berkley, people who have fallen to poverty themselves, and Robert Reich’s personal lessons to the camera directly. Though the film covers many areas of income in economics, the main backbone of the lesson is the three facts that serve as the main argument for the film: The tax
Without a solid base of knowledge in current economics, the film did a wonderful job in giving me a greater understanding of the economy today. With the film's sharp statistics, comparative animations, and likeable former politician, and knowledgeable information, I find it very hard to see anyone disliking the documentary(unless of course they are a 1%’er). One thing that the film strongly made me think about though, is the media. No matter the news source, whether it's Facebook, CNN, Fox, Google News, etc, I have yet to find a compelling article in the past and present on inequality in our economy. Of course, there is a mention here and there. But the majority of the media focuses on hunger, violence, unjust governments, etc. I find this hard to grasp as we have all of the above right here in the U.S.A. Shouldn’t we be focusing on our country's own violence, that one in six Americans face hunger, that our own government/political field is corrupt? With all the attention directed elsewhere, I start to think, “Is that