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Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales Part Two

Jill on Money with Jill Schlesinger

Audacy

Education, Investing, Business, Self-improvement

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Filmmaker and activist Abigail Disney joins the show this weekend to discuss her new documentary, "The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales." The film examines income inequality at the company her grandfather and great-uncle founded, asking why the American dream seems so out of reach for so many.

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0:34.0

Welcome to the Jill on Money Show. It's Sunday, October 16th.

0:37.8

And if you have not listened to yesterday's episode, you have to go back and do that.

0:42.4

Because today it's part two of my interview with filmmaker Abigail Disney.

0:48.4

She's out with a new documentary. It's called The American Dream and other fairy tales.

0:54.2

And in this second part of the interview, we talk about how she profiled four Disneyland

1:00.7

custodians from 2018 to the present. And she is quite interesting in terms of her ideas around

1:09.5

what has happened in corporate America and how inequality has exploded in the last,

1:16.8

basically 30, 40 years. So here is the second part of my interview with Abigail Disney.

1:23.7

Corporate responsibility to the community in which you existed, to the workers,

1:30.4

to the customers and to the shareholders. And there were four,

1:35.5

sort of like this four pillars. At that time, there was probably somewhat of an equal.

1:40.9

And if anything, I didn't hear a ton about shareholder class in 50s and 60s and 70s.

1:45.6

My grandfather was an executive of a retail company that was public.

1:49.2

I don't really remember him talking except to say I hate analysts.

1:52.4

But that was the only thing I didn't even know what that meant. The shift to the primacy of

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