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List names of principles; Please add notes for each of the 10 principles about information shared
in the documentary.
- American Dream
- Partly symbolic, Partly real
- Social mobility
- 50’s & 60’s (Golden age)
- Biggest growth period
- The bottom ⅕ and top ⅕ of society are improving similarly (at the same
rate)
- Welfare state measures
- When the U.S. was producing, it was more concerned about the population
- Now; Profit, even if it's based on manipulation
- Taxes
- Tax on the wealthy and corporations were taxed more in the 50’s & 60’s
- The tax system has been redesigned
- Taxes on the wealthy were reduced
- Taxes on the rest of the population increased
- The revenue from taxes for the U.S. has decreased
- The major American corporations shifted the burden of sustaining the society on
the rest of the population
- Corporate tyranny
- Anti Unions
- In elite groups, ideology
- Labor rights
- Long and violent labor history
- 1920’s
- Truck driver strike
- Union v. Police
- Mid-30’s
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Sympathetic Government/ Rise in Activism
-Reagan
- Siding with the corporations
- Those who were on strike, he stated could be fired as they did not
go to work, as they forfeit their right to continue their job
- Massive decline of Unions
- Increase in inequality of wages
- Wage labor is similar to slavery, but only temporary
- The government doesn't want the poor to know that they are oppressed
- The notion of class at this time was defined as;
- Who gives orders and who takes/follows them