Group 4 - Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream

            What does the documentary say about the possibilities of social climbing in the US today?

The rich people could stay rich, or even get wealthier, but the poor people would just keep getting more poor. It has become harder to break out from their social heritage, and that "cliff" between rich and poor has just become bigger. 

How does professor Paul Piff explain his comparison of American society to a fixed game of Monopoly?

In monopoly, there is one winner and many losers. Monopoly is about earning money, and becoming 

succesful, just like it is in real life. If you don't have money, you will loose. The difference between real 

life and Monopoly is that everybody in the game starts with equal amount of money - and real life is not 

like that. 

            Compare the points in the documentary to Our America and Adam.

            In Adam he describes the American Dream as being wealthy and succesful and that is the same way                 
            the republicans sees it. In our America the little boy comes from a ghetto and is poor, so he wants to 
            have liberty and freedom more than material wealth. In the two stories we see both sides of the Park               ,           Avenue bridge.  


Made by Josefine, Christian A, Patrick and Kristina.