LAFF 2013: INEQUALITY FOR ALL

A scene from Inequality for All.

Freedom to monopolize

By John Esther

Thanks to theReaganite fiscal policies over the past 30 years, the economic disparity between rich Americans and the rest of America’s people has increased monumentally. The middle class is disappearing into the poor while the rich get richer. This is not good news for Americans, even the rich. Our economy thrives on consumption and when the middle class are not doing their dutiful duties by consuming, we all suffer.

At least that is what Robert Reich says.

A United States Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton, Reich is now a teacher at UC Berkeley who occasionally goes on the airwaves to present the neo-liberal economic policy point of view.

With a great amount, -- perhaps a little too much -- of reverence for his subject, director Jacob Kornbluth traces Reich’s roots before and during his Clinton years as well as capture Reich’s academic life today where he can pack a large classroom of students while increasingly being ignored by mainstream media. 

Since trickle down economics/austerity fiscal planning has been refuted by every legitimate economist (and the poor quality of reality itself), the contents of Inequality for All are hardly revolutionary, but the documentary is an amusing piece of non-fiction.

Equaling the paying field, The Los Angeles Film Festival is screening Inequality for All for free.


Inequality for All will screen at the Los Angeles Film Festival June 22, 8:30 p.m., at California Plaza. For more information: IFA at LAFF 2013.