He should be hung by the neck right alongside all the other people in cohorts against this country. These doc makers fell for their trick (calling what they do "free market" when it is the very opposite) all the way. But to replace this system with socialism makes no sense either, trading one evil for another. living. Brandon Kirby Deregulation, of course, is a … Really? Well then, someone was doing us a favor by assassinating these Presidents. Here, unemployment runs at 19% and half the population need food stamps. And by the way; the Koch brothers are in no way libertarians---they love big and domineering government; that's where all the control is. better yet, take the wealth and make them live like the homeless. 740 Park in Manhattan is currently home to the highest concentration of billionaires in the country. Rewards normally require risk, in a free market that is. This is measured by net worth, not income. The documentary: The truth behind keeping whales in captivity is chronicled in this Netflix Original, tracing the story of an Orca named Tilikum who killed three humans while at Sea World. democratic is a style or type. Have a wonderful life, but please - have it away from me. It is a doctrine that was radical back in the day, and it is possibly meant for the lower classes and not the upper classes. "I felt [Gross' book] would be a very interesting way in," he says. Psychopathy is a brain/personality disorder of a parasitic nature. 666 Park Avenue - Rent Movies and TV Shows on DVD and Blu-ray. Organized or not, religion only fills a void that exist with or without your acceptance or rejection of faith. Less than four miles away, Park Avenue runs through the South Bronx, which has the highest poverty rate in the U.S. And you start to look for ways to flex the power of your money like the oligarchs who run the US. If it was a hoax we knowingly or unknowingly, created it ourselves and infected our children with it. It gets spun out, as lots of things do, to pluck on the heartstrings of American society, as an outrage. For Capitalism to work you have to increase taxes when taking the money out of each Corporation. They are bound to their treadmill just like a minimum wage worker. DML. ), this film misrepresents Rand as a some sort of "bloodsucking capitalist". Nowhere, Gibney asserts, is this more evident than on Park Avenue in New York. Someone else 12% of $ 134K. The apartments for sale at 740 Park Avenue rank among the most sought-after apartment listings on the Upper East Side, and are among the most exclusive listings in Manhattan, period. It's always fun to discuss things with people who insult me. Less than four miles away, Park Avenue runs through the South Bronx, which has the highest poverty rate in the U.S. I explain in my original Money is being used to buy tools to rig the game. The Koch's would have to go on welfare... Poetic justice... One day you'll see the pendulum of life strike hard and when it does come not even our elected officials will be able to stop it. public schools, medicare, interstate highways are socialistic programs. Somebody has to let you know that this happens, or you have to come across these things by coincidence, otherwise you'll simply never know about the kind of things that happen in this unequal world! Heres what my parents always said to me when I was a young kid about money and having to be a slave. Some of us have taken their chips, gone home and are no longer playing the game. The other half is based on Park Avenue in the Bronx. 10 minutes to the north, and over the Harlem River, is the other Park Avenue in the South Bronx, where more than half the population need food stamps and children are 20 times more likely to be killed. Compatition is not benificial unless it's creating higher standards of living. we have many other ones also. Privatized Banking keeps the people in a constant stae of debt that will never be paid off. But God STILL says; YOU have lived a life of wanton pleasure. In all fairness, they should also show "2016- Obama's America" to these kids too. your the laziest Fer here.. Talk about one sided propaganda! Why Poverty? airing worldwide on networks like PBS and BBC. Think of what just 12% of annual profits in the amount of $ 47.5 Billion dollars would put into the United States Treasury from only one corporation. none of it makes sense that it's been made so flawed that some wealthy people can buy up the government. Capitalistic is a type or style. It is a monopoly where some players are not allowed to loose. The real problem is these hedge fund guys who really don't "make" anything. Sounds a bit like a revolution, French style. In times like this its best to rob the rich and feed the poor. Summary. Michael Gross' non-fiction bestseller 740 Park has been turned into a film by Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney. These people didn't earn the money the same way others do in my mind. Replace this with that is what an ignorant one would say. They are both interlinked so Critic Reviews for Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream All Critics (1) | Fresh (1) Gibney ferrets out the richest men in America and the building where they live, 740 Park Ave in NYC. The American Dream, the country's unique selling point, has become a myth. STORY: HBO to Give Alex Gibney's 'Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God' a Theatrical Release, Gibney was looking to make a film that would address poverty through wealth. Of course it is no longer a game is it? AHAHAHAAHAAAHAHAAAA!!!!! A majority of the documentary is interviews by ex-Orca trainers at SeaWorld, people who worked at sea world, and even people who captured baby Orca’s in the 70’s. The foundation of any strong democracy is an educated and healthy population. The true freedom to negotiate with others and to offer services in exchange for money and goods serves the cause. sometimes i think its easier for people to blame the rich for their poverty that blame themselves... welfare wont make you rich, get up your lazy and work... thats how you get out of poverty. Money makes you mean and uncaring. Building: 740 Park Avenue in Lenox Hill. Taxes were always only meant for the poor. I wrote this a year ago - I don't recall the details of how they misrepresented Ayn Rand's work. Privacy Policy | Referred to as one of Manhattan’s “Towers of Power,” in a New York Magazine article not only for its ultra-luxe apartment homes, but for the wealthy who reside and have resided there, 740 Park Avenue is so grand that an entire book, “740 Park: The Story of the World’s Richest Apartment Building” by Michael Gross was devoted to it. There are several ways to be notified about new content on TDF. Eddie Murphy's... Trading Places comes to mind..might as well laugh about it all. You mean, God created YOU will a purpose in His plan, but He was rejected for your own plan more like it. They lost me when they misrepresented Ayn Rand's work so miserably, though. You Brain surgery. Sitemap | He/We win in the end. So obviously it's like a swarm of locusts eating and destroying all systems along the way. Michael Gross' Bestseller '740 Park' Adapted by Alex Gibney (Exclusive) The film version, "Park Avenue," will air worldwide as part of a documentary series, "Why Poverty?," on networks like PBS and BBC. This address boasts the highest number of billionaires in the United States. series and was pointed specifically to Gross' book by Jane Mayer of The New Yorker. Tea Party is composed of many groups. Nowhere, Gibney asserts, is this more evident than on Park Avenue in New York. Ya not only that but were slaves beating down other slaves to get on the slave masters good side. we have some socialistic stuff. All rights reserved. The system doesn't have to be evil to be doing what it is doing. how is my mother working 60 hrs a week on minimum wage and still not making enough to care for her family while paying a 25% payroll tax a reflection of a just society while these CEOs make millions and still fight for taxes lower than 15% on their investments? Why are we still learning things on school which creates a false image of the world? The problem comes in when big oil is receiving subsidy from our tax dollar while accusing medicare and food stamps of "making people dependent on the government". The documentary compares the access to opportunities of residents of Park Avenue both on the Upper East Side and in the South Bronx. How come the planes of 911 didn't hit 740 Park Avenue, Manhattan, oh yeh, because they helped plan and funded the False Flag 911. It's financial prejudice just another type of racism basicly. So sorry, but lights OUT for those (mostly wealthy people) who gained the whole world and lost their very souls.. I When she wrote the novel she may have claimed to be been "anti-socialist", anti-government and pro-privatization, but in the end she 'happily' embraced (availed herself of) government assistance. There are a lot of people who share what you wrote here. Look how many books Conservatives have written and the profits off of them. We have too big a government sticking its filthy hands all over the economy, manipulating it in favor of a few at the expense of the many. The only void I need to fill is in my wallet... Oh this world needs a head shake, Hmmm I believe the "american dream" you referenced could be traced back to the earliest settlers in New England, wealth being the just earthly reward for the hard-working, godly, virtuous ones. 740 Park: The Story of the World’s Richest Apartment Building by Michael Gross was published in 2005. The ignorance of the American people still amazes me still choosing one party over another party thinking that they are making a difference. If income inequality were a sport, the residents of 740 Park Avenue in Manhattan would all be medalists. Read American history about the gilded age and the subsequent re calibration. I could never understand--just how much money does one person need? I never had an equal chance and nobody does. It's people like you that deserve the worst. Have you read up on rational economic thinkers such as Mises or Rothbard? Personally I have no issue with them living the rich life, if they can afford it let them have it. Gibney turned his focus to the last 75 pages of Gross' book bringing to life three residents of 740 Park: Stephen Schwarzman, David Koch and John Thain. "if you work hard enough, you'll one day be rich"...It's almost as good as "Be good or you'll go to hell" less of some and more of the others would be jess' fine with me. Viewers are advised to read Rand's book for themselves to see whom she really criticized and glorified (and possibly where she got it wrong). You know why? "You just have to wait until the phone rings," Gross recalls. Imagine that tomorrow gasoline becomes obsolete and hydrogen becomes the fuel of the future! And it was an Oscar winner and somebody I have great respect for already. Terms of Use | Just do it, really. Gives favored multi-national corporations unbelievable protections and privileges. It's just a bad design. They both are good. brilliant. I know; you would have to perform actual valued services or produce and sell real goods that people value to make honest commodity-backed money, gold or silver, but hey, you would actually be a plus to humanity unlike Wall Street speculators, financiers, government leeches, corporate/government profiteers and other worthless trash propped up by the Federal Reserve shenanigans and its partner the Federal Government. 740 Park is the home of the 1% of the 1% and has been the home of the finance ‘masters of the universe’ since the robber baron architects of the Great Depression lived there. "I always saw this book as an anthology television series," Gross, author of 740 Park: The … There are still rags-to-riches stories of newspaper boys becoming media tycoons, but they are increasingly rare. project. Once you have more than you could ever spend in your life, it's just a way to keep score. For me it highlighted how desperate the 1%ers are to take an outdated idea and twist it as a doctrine for an outdated system that was tried and has left some pretty dazzling and unquantifiable results. To spread fear that something has been taken away from them, to induce fear and soak up all those tax breaks and re-invest in new ways to ruin the planet. This address boasts the highest number of billionaires in the United States, many of whom actively lobby and finance political campaigns to lower taxes on the wealthy. They don't understand "content" only perma- ambition. The documentary: This latest Netflix Original is poised to swipe the "best true crime docuseries" mantle from Making a Murderer. Second, you need to reread Atlas Shrugged, as your memory of the facts in the novel are flat out wrong. It is called NAFTA on steroids, kept secret. It's an understatement to say they don't play by the rules. Make no mistake, the deep pockets of the 1% are influencing BOTH conservative and liberal parties. Give it Scott Walker (R) who is at the center of a criminal conspiracy to illegally coordinate the activities of independent conservative groups during recall elections in his state in 2011 and 2012, according to documents released Thursday and first reported on by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. ;). And I believe anyone with a good sense in mind should do to. The problem is the people in charge. Watch what they do, not what they say. airing worldwide on networks like PBS and BBC. They cry against the concept of income re-distribution but fail to recognize that it's happening in reverse right now. I think the whole thing is just a pernicious idea that has persisted and permeated our culture from the day the Brits first kicked out their religious crazies and sent them over here. That was taken care of by Privatized Banking assasination of every president that apposed Privatized Banking, virtually every President that has ever been assasinsted. You can watch as much as you want, whenever you want without a single commercial – all for one low monthly price. It sucks but it's true. Park Avenue includes a 1959 Mike Wallace interview with Rand, wherein she insists, "I’m opposed to all forms of control." If they start loosing (bad luck or stupidity) all the other players have to give them money so they can continue to play, and if there is not enough money they can jump to the position “print” and make sure the game continues. We should be competing with the real true problems and challenges that face all of humanity not competing with eachother. Netflix is a streaming service that offers a wide variety of award-winning TV shows, movies, anime, documentaries, and more on thousands of internet-connected devices. The top are taking from the middle and have been 30 years. Filmmaker Alex Gibney investigates the fact that the 400 richest Americans control more wealth than the 150 million people in the bottom 50 percent of the population. Change it too quickly and we have chaos. In New York, a teacher married to an engineer will bring home this sum with ease. Personally i don't think it was ever possible for your average person to get from the Bronx to 740. Thoughtful reaction to the case made in this video does not call for the "killing" of the rich but does reason the need to stop demonizing the poor and redirecting the wealth that takes an entire nation to create. Across the Harlem River, 10 minutes to the north, is the other Park Avenue in South Bronx, where more than half the population needs food stamps and children are 20 times more likely to be killed. BlackFish was released on CNN on November 2nd, 2013. Cheers. because i when out everyday and worked. What do you have to negotiate in a power struggle if you don't truly own anything? So what now? War? The other half is based on Park Avenue in the Bronx. RIGHT ON! To accomplish this, the U.S. must make what it invents. "Well it's never going to change so just do as your told keep your nose clean and maybe you'll get somewhere in life." All this mention of the Koch Brothers, and yet no mention of their equivalent on the left: George Soros. It's the only way to address the horrendous debt and put Americans back to work. We make them there money by consuming from there buinesses .. Did you fall alseep during the video? The best place to live in that building would be in the basement with a photo darkroom and a wood stove. have no problem with government---make it as big as you like. What would be the name of the "organization" that created this hoax? I'm voting against anyone the Koch Brothers are Funding. Is it that respecting the basic human rights of hardworking people is boring compared to the intriguing realm of ever-powerful government? The middle class is in the middle. My ONLY objection is that Largely they are inflated by the idea of all this money they have, which gets in the way of letting them be able to afford to be human. 740 Park Ave, New York City, is home to some of the wealthiest Americans. WHAT WOULD YOU REALLY DO... NOT JUST TALK ABOUT IT BUT WHAT WOULD YOU DO? hahahaha ya ok. most of them were born into it. 740 Park Avenue is a luxury cooperative apartment building on the west side of Park Avenue between East 71st and 72nd Streets in the Lenox Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.It was described in Business Insider in 2011 as "a legendary address" that was "at one time considered (and still thought to be by some) the most luxurious and powerful residential building in New York City". 740 Park Avenue is the subject of both a book and a documentary film. This documentary is biased and it's not advocating anything except replacing a broken system with a different, equally broken system where nothing will change except who controls it. My Wife and I live in a 400 square foot home/business property The problem is that the movie is about inequality, so it’s only partially based on 740 Park. They move paper and monopoly money around to make billions. Or is it good news for the rich but very bad news for the poor? by The U.S. became the world's largest economy because it invented products and then manufactured them with new processes and technology. One of the residents of 740 Park Avenue is David Koch, who along with his brother Charles, had made all kinds of contributions to the arts, including $23 million to public television. It's designed to monopolize of everything and anything. The "government" can take his home away if he doesn't pay the "rent" (property taxes) and the "government" will lock him up if he doesn't give up whatever earnings they demand (payroll, property, sales, income taxes). Their... Everyone has a smart phone these days. "Now we'll just have to wait 10 years until people forget 666 Park Avenue," he joked. Just as I am going to pass on reading "Mein Kampf" because I'm not interested in supporting Nazi Fascism, I'll pass on further reading of Keynes. Ten minutes to the north, across the Harlem River, is the other Park Avenue, in the South Bronx. Someone else 12% of $ 35K Currently, three of its fabled duplexes are on the market for sums ranging from $22.5 million to … It goes both ways, and both parties are to blame for this mess. 2. The psychopaths have to be kicked of their thrones!! ... Lee made plans to appear in a TV movie Maybe you'll get some politicians and policies that favor the true shareholders of your country, the voters. YES! I wash people's feet and provide foot massages for a But these people are not free. Understand that it is what it is and no human on this earth can stop them. Raised in a 12-room duplex apartment at 740 Park Avenue in Manhattan, the sisters summered at the family estate, Lasata, on Further Lane in East Hampton. It will be if these guys are not going to be stopped. Many politicians and business tycoons seem to be afflicted by psychopathy. Seems like putting all your eggs in one basket might be dangerous. We no longer have a free market. That is why they spend millions to lobby against the flat tax. Park Avenue Documentary "This is great, come Christmas time I'll get $1,000 bonuses from each of the residents," a former doorman at 740 Park Avenue said. I find the fortune that Bill Gates made with Microsoft, and others like him, to be much more respectable in this regard. Ignorant means, not yet taught or informed. You are right, she was not a bloodsucking capitalist, she was worst than that, a lot worse. Being able to buy stuff does not make you free or happy or cultured or smart or healthy. This may be a personal prejudice of mine against bankers but it is what it is. For this documentary, they filmed at Sea World, San Diego, CA and Puget Sound, Washington. For this documentary, they filmed at Sea World, San Diego, CA and Puget Sound, Washington. Especially on the environment. This wolrd is so nuts and crazy. Its like developing a theory without ever testing it! I'm sending to Obama all day about how he is supposed to protect the Americans, and care for them. “Park Avenue” is now part of the ever-growing cache of documentaries that makes Netflix a major destination for fans of non-fiction filmmaking (the same afternoon that I watched the Gibney doc, I also re-watched the Sea World expose “Blackfish” and the charming New York shopping film, “Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s”). Now ask yourself this QUESTION? They have turned this whole planet into some kind of sick casino where high rollars always stay being a high rollar and the people below them don't even get to play for a chance to take some of that high rollars money. The blaze erupted in the apartment of Bernie Madoff associate Ezra Merkin at 740 Park Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side shortly before 3pm on Wednesday. It's a lot cheaper for them to do that than actually have to pay 12% on what they bring into their businesses. If income inequality were a sport, the residents of 740 Park Avenue in Manhattan would all be medalists. politicians or financiers? It is essential that the U.S. rebuild its manufacturing capabilities - not the assembly-line jobs of yesterday but the high-tech advanced manufacturing of the future - to restart the cycle of invention and production. Doesn't that mean there's lots more wealth to go round? I have met and "hung out" with a lot of very rich people....I don't envy them, they are not that happy as a rule, only 10% or so are real human beings who look in your eyes and truly relate to you. Did the rich get richer? Uhhh it's just madning. 740 Park Ave, New York City, is home to some of the wealthiest Americans. 740 Park Avenue is a 17-story high-rise building in New York City, New York, U.S.A.. View a detailed profile of the structure 114232 including further data and descriptions in the Emporis database. Now I understand why US is going down the way it goes.Americans just can not handle their greed. Just looking at this as objectively a I can, I think this was a very well done documentary. How can you be so low that you don't want to throw the facts on the table and let people know what is going on? I enjoyed the frame story of the 740 Park Ave. address to tackle the standard rich-people-getting-their-fingers-in-government story with a little twist. Boy, would the rich really hate this. It highlights the fact that the American belief that hard work pays off is still a central part of our society but in fact, hard work is no longer a guarantee of obtaining the American Dream. A billionaire could make zero and just draw down on principal and never run out of money. It’s called Park Avenue: Money, Power and The American Dream and it will air on PBS on November 12th as part of the international Why Poverty? Directed by Ava DuVernay. “In 740 Park, Michael Gross penetrates the bewitching and private worlds of the privileged and very rich denizens of 740 Park Avenue on New York’s Upper East Side.Gross, a born storyteller, delights in his tales of upstairs and downstairs over the decades in the grand building. The documentary just lays out facts w/o any slant. Including their relationships with ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Commission), their Involvent in CCA (Private Prisons), and their Lobbying Against finding resolutions in immigration (to keep illegal immigrants in the country to fill up prisons for profit is wrong!!!). YOU are right....$ 18 Trillion dollars, RIGHT. Only "government" can use force to impede and even block the poor person's efforts, force the use of an "official" currency (Federal Reserve notes), and it is "government" that claims ownership control of the poor person's home and earnings, so that he cannot truly own anything. We need a Bane (Dark Knight Rises), tho with less violence. WHY? 740 Park in Manhattan is currently home to the highest concentration of billionaires in the country. 740 Park Avenue? In 2012, an adaptation of the book was released on PBS and BBC called Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream. Investing where your money will go next and collecting profits is the farthest thing from working that I can imagine. Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream Directed by Alex Gibney Watch on Netflix. ", STORY: Alex Gibney Strikes Deal to Make Documentaries for New CNN Films Unit. Alex Gibney - 2012 - As Bill Clinton said, "It's the economy, stupid." Birth. Former hedge fund manager David Ganek is looking to sell his 8, 000 square foot duplex apartment in the 740 Park Avenue More Aug 27, 2020 740 park the story of the worlds richest apartment building. I want my kids to grow up in a free world, I'm still young and live in west-europe, where it is still not as crazy as in the U.S. The problem comes in when they sit around moaning about uncertainty in the economy, refusing to hire anyone, even though they just recorded record breaking profits. The left is working diligently to gain control over the Conservatives so they can keep lining their pocket and staying in power. Their best ally is a thriving (and growing) middle class. Once again trying to blame some "other" entity for our own creations is pointless and only propagates the myth. is headed by Steps International based out of South Africa along with BBC and Danish broadcaster DRTV. they've already persuaded us its big government that's the real problem - not big money. They are violations of hard-working folks' basic human rights. They can never take enough to be wealthy them selves. 1. If income inequality were a sport, the residents of 740 Park Avenue in Manhattan would all be medalists.
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