#millionaries

ATTENTION 

I only own the first picture. The rest do not belong to me.

The Documentary Podcast

Abigail Disney meets an unusual group of millionaires who are demanding to pay more tax.

Abigail Disney knows a thing or two about telling stories. As she admits in the trailer for her latest film, The American Dream and other Fairy Tales “Having the last name Disney is like having a weird superpower you didn’t ask for.”

In this new film, Disney — the granddaughter of Roy Disney, the co-founder of The Walt Disney company — weaves the story of the destructive inequality inside the company that bears her last name. A custodian at Disney, she notes, “would have to work for 2,000 years” to make what Disney CEO Bob Iger routinely has made in one.

Last week, the documentarian-activist released a new storytelling project: a radio documentary on the “reluctant” Patriotic Millionaires, a group of hyper-wealthy tax-the-rich advocates and their allies. Disney’s work chronicles the political awakenings that brought these millionaires to the conclusion that too few have far too much — and that these too few need to become advocates for rigorous reform.

Keep an ear out as you listen for our Inequality.org’s Chuck Collins discussing how the tax code turns philanthropy into a “naked exercise in power” for our wealthiest. Above a certain level, he notes, wealth becomes “the power to influence your environment.” That power, we believe, should extend far beyond the ultra-rich. 

Check out Abigail Disney’s new BBC audio documentary at the link below.

https://inequality.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/inequality-newsletter-dec-5-2022.html