No company executive will see him, until he meets with Phil Knight, head of Nike. No doubt Knight wishes he hadn't tangled with Moore, who offers him two plane tickets to Indonesia to tour the factories where children as young as 14 make pennies an hour to build the shoes Nike sells for hundreds of dollars. In the end, months after the filmed interview, Knight finally agrees to raise the minimum working age at Nike factories to 18. It is one of a few small victories in the movie, along with some votes to unionize some bookstores. This is a side of American life we don't see in the movies, or anywhere else in the mainstream media, for that matter.
Nobody talks about the lack of high-paying jobs.
Nobody talks about the decline in health care benefits or the damage to families caused by people having to work two jobs. Nobody talks about prisoners working for low wages taking airline reservations and giving out travel advice. All we hear about is how rich Bill Gates is and how the Dow Jones average is getting ready to hit 10,000. Some of the best parts of the movie are when Moore interviews ordinary working people who explain how the quality of their lives is declining, despite the rosy news from Wall Street. Less impressive is Moore's grandstanding.