Quickie on this film which I saw last night. The cruelties that greed may bring, I was aware of, but the detail is always fascinating: insurance policies taken out by companies on employees, unbeknownst to them apparently…. The film doesn’t dare take on Roosevelt or Obama: no remark or reflection on the role of war in the greed machinery. Yet, the social gains the film attributes to Roosevelt and unions (to be fair), aren’t they due also to the fact that so many millions worked for the war effort and it would have been hard not to reciprocate a little in terms of education, basic union rights (oh, not too far, the cold war helped a lot here to pull the rug from anything SOCIALISTIC), social security, etc.? Interesting to see this film as the quality of education is under attack (dropping really), fees are going up, hopes of good jobs a little uncertain these days, research centers working hard on the next capital-intensive engineering techniques.