The Rich Get Richer
Film 4 (365) Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream In New York City there are two Park Avenues. There's the one in Manhattan, where the largest concentration of Billionaires in the world are located, and there's the one in the Bronx north of the river where poverty is rampant. This film doesn't talk much about those north of the river. Instead it focuses one particular building. 740 Park. The most intriguing part of this film for me was the metaphor one psychiatrist uses in the beginning. He asks us to imagine sitting down to a game of Monopoly. The catch? All the properties have already been bought up and houses/hotels built. It wouldn't take long and you're worse off than when you started. This same psychiatrist did an experiment. He pitted two player against one another in Monopoly. After the throw of a dice one player is randomly selected to be the "wealthy" player. Every time the wealthy player crosses Go he gets $200, ...