Theme Of Inequality For All

For my second extra credit opportunity, I decided to watch the Inequality for All film, which displayed our biggest threat yet in America, the income gap. This film has been well received and well accepted to some since the film tackles a controversial concept where many have an opinion on. In sum, the film follows Robert Reich and discuses the major income gap we have in this country using examples from the past and the present.
The three main themes that were covered in the film were basically: wealth back then, wealth now, and wealth in the future. In the film Robert Reich uses the theme of wealth in the past to demonstrate and pull through his huge point of fixing the income gap. Back then America in the early 1920’s the economy was doing fantastic since more than a third of Americans worked in labor unions and this gave them more barging leverage and overall a better large share of the “growing pie”. Using the events in past, Reich demonstrates the availability of prosperity available to others, which made it easier to move up the social and economic ladder a possibility. If one individual prospered, it generated even more events that made others proper and Reich wanted to show this in his film to demonstrate
Reich uses a wide sources of data and uses this to demonstrates how America gaps keeps on getting larger and larger. From the 1980’s to 2010 the salary percentages skyrocketed to unbelievable heights such as from 800k to 84.5 million annually in comparison to the average workers with a minor annual jump from 24k to 47k. In addition, Reich is addressing the data from now and the past and also uses real personal accounts of how bad the income equality it is. This shows how bad people are suffering, which helps gets his point across that America middle class is disappearing and we need to do something about