Americas Growing Wealth Gap
b'with\\xa0Jamie Johnson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Johnson_(filmmaker)), Documentary Film Producer (\\u201cBorn Rich\\u201d, \\u201cThe One Percent\\u201d)
Jamie Johnson is the great-grandson of Robert Wood Johnson, the co-founder of Johnson & Johnson (J&J), a company\\u2019s that\\u2019s worth over $300 billion. Jamie himself is estimated to have a net worth of about $600 million. Growing up in a family that inherited its extreme wealth, money and a host of other topics were taboo.
Young Jamie, however, saw this as a problem and wanted to highlight the issues faced by the \\u201cgenerational\\u201d ultra-rich because he felt that \\u201cnot talking\\u201d about key issues only handicapped such generations from succeeding in business, financial planning, family stability, money matters and a lot of other issues. Jamie produced two films where he explores these taboos and America\\u2019s growing chasm between the rich and poor. He believes many of these issues are specific to inherited wealth and do not apply to billionaire entrepreneurs and first-generation wealth creators.
His films offer greater transparency into the ultra-rich and could be pioneering in bridging the psychological and emotional disconnect between America\\u2019s rich and poor. He also discusses the suitability of free markets in addressing these broader wealth-gap issues.
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