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The Documentary Podcast

The reluctant millionaires

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Why would anyone want to pay more tax? Film-maker, activist and multi-millionaire Disney heiress Abigail Disney presents a very personal introduction to the millionaires campaigning against their own wealth. From Morehead, Kentucky to Davos, Switzerland, Washington DC to Orlando, Florida, Abigail tells the story of contemporary wealth inequality, focusing particularly on the United States. What harm is wealth inequality doing to society and democracy and what can be done about it?

Transcript

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0:00.0

From the colour and the drama to the sound and the stories, World Football in Qatar is the

0:07.2

podcast for the BBC World Service taking you behind the scenes of the World Cup.

0:13.0

Throughout the tournaments we're meeting the teams, their fans and the people in Qatar

0:17.8

capturing the stories and the passion of the nations who are making this competition

0:22.3

so exciting. For a truly global take on the World Cup, just search for World Football

0:28.0

in Qatar, wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

0:38.0

Why would anyone want to pay more tax?

0:42.0

I'm Abigail E. Disney and you're listening to the reluctant millionaires on the BBC World Service.

0:48.0

This is the story of how some of the world's richest people are fighting back against their own wealth

0:54.0

and demanding fair taxation, a personal view from a reluctant millionaire.

1:01.0

I'm here today to tell you in no uncertain terms, our democracy is under attack all the way from the Ukraine to even right here in Washington, D.C.

1:10.0

Billionaire oligarchs are using variations of the same playbook to undermine democracy, to tear down the America that we know and love.

1:19.0

And in its place cement their rule over an unequal, divided and broken society.

1:26.0

On the second floor of a hotel in Washington, D.C., millionaire Stephen Prince is addressing a conference staged by the campaign group, the patriotic millionaires.

1:37.0

The room is packed with press, campaigners, and several dozen of the group's millionaire members.

1:44.0

It's going to take all of us to reclaim our country from these selfish son of bitches and that's exactly what we're going to do.

1:51.0

Thank you.

1:54.0

Now there's a sound you don't hear too often.

1:56.0

Millionaires cheering an attack on their own class.

1:59.0

But these millionaires are different.

2:02.0

They're campaigning against extreme inequalities of wealth from the inside.

2:06.0

Ladies and gentlemen, filmmaker Abigail Disney.

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