Although we've learned much and achieved much, it's been mostly at the margins. We must act more boldly, challenging the conceptual design of the system, which is structured to uphold shareholder primacy. Meanwhile the first few chapters are available in booklet form. The stark fact is, the 1 percent wealthiest own half of all stock. Their income doubled between 1997 and 1999, while many earners saw income decline.
Stockholders are the good guys.
They're supposed to win. Marjorie Kelly will appear at Taos Film Festival Media Literacy Program April 6, 2001. As we once learned from the media that cowboys were good guys and indians were bad guys, today the financial media teaches us that stockholders are good guys and employees are bad guys. What's at work is wealth discrimination, which is akin to sex and race discrimination. It's a subconscious belief that the needs of wealth-holders are superior, while the needs of everyone else are inferior.