In the first episode, Obama says that nearly half of all American workers work in low wage service jobs. He then goes on to talk about how those people are so far away from us they're "on another freaking planet" When he is filmed going up the corporate ladder you see the elevator just keep going up and up and up for each new episode. It's kind of like a visual representation of how when we talk about the 1%.
In this News Brief, we review the former President's new docuseries and his attempt to paper over class conflict in favor of a Simply Asking CEOs To Be Nicer brand of politics. With guest Maximillian Alvarez of The Real News.