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documentary from the forest starts april first on t w. digimon real estate developer and multi-millionaire cost of going to has an appointment with it to sit all city mayor. good to me speak quickly with local politicians because they're the ones who avoid building contracts. with your political politicians meet frequently with people like cost of cleanup. sometimes the real estate tycoon has four meetings like this in a day. how much influence do the super rich wield. we sought to answer that question by looking at guna and many others in germany at first glance it seems to be a wealthy powerful country brimming with opportunities but on closer x. . emanation germany is among those industrialized countries with the widest gap

between rich and poor success is often dependent on social background why is economic mobility so you know in germany is social inequality threatening social cohesion to find on says we traveled the world we spoke to a nobel laureates and other leading researchers all experts on the dynamics of inequality. is at a crossroads today people sense that the control of their nation is being stolen from inequality is the most pressing social problem facing us today. welcome to the land of inequality. christof cleena has four children and multiple millions for six months to let our cameras follow him at public appearances even if we are the ones with opportunity

time and money we have to get involved we are the state and ours is one of the best nations in the world. and behind the scenes of his business one of germany's biggest construction companies. are as well these were all derelict all trash. he got rich with real estate. and worked his way to the top. if there's no better society than ours here in germany are going to shop we have a new seating plan let's go just aggression here on the right you there that's great. he's leading property market investor generating millions of square metres of living space. does his wealth lend him power. christopher on his way to another meeting today he wants to personally ensure that a project to construct a new neighborhood doesn't get bogged down in red tape. sometimes it's

a bit scary when you realize how easily you achieve your goals that correlation as i think i become i have a vision of what i want to achieve and bang it works and when you go a step further and that works to it's powerful. and i'm going to be tough as you pursue your goals or rather your company's goals. here in cologne cost of couldna has acquired half of an entire street in the district of new hires. he plans to build a new neighborhood called colonia to the tune of three hundred and fifty million euro. today he and his cologne team are discussing the pending building permit. gooner thinks things are moving too slowly. mr hoffman is on top of the project and will be submitting a building up patient in november ok but starting construction july first is

a bit late isn't it. first processing the application generally takes twelve months . short of might still try to speed things up. wherever we can but the city has said clearly they need to prioritize tussocks because they're under stuff to our rules where you might. be if that's not good enough or that we'll have to meet the mayor i want that permit by spring storm. i want to march thirty it's going to break ground april first i want to move in eighteen months later the time same experience has shown. in this case i'm not bothered by experience it's just a nice. clean as cologne project illustrates a common dilemma companies want to build apartments that maximize profits

attendance once apartments they can afford. the city government has invited residents of cologne to a local gym for a meeting to discuss the future of this city and identify the issues that are important to them. i can't afford tenure as a square meter for. the evening's host is colognes my india to the because. it was humid and where our wait time was. current back. to. him he doesn't do a. good. kid to conversation centers on the divide between rich and poor is coming no one there will not understand your position but we can tell people when to live when to move

everyone has to decide them for themselves doesn't suddenly. you know. for many years local governments were to ensure the supply of affordable housing but building themselves then a wave of privatization swept across germany in the one nine hundred ninety s. and investors took over but the city needs thousands of flats which is why mayor take a needs cleaner on the start this is also the city hasn't shooting to provide the space and the building permits needed to ensure sustainability in the housing market is our stock to be out there is the boat we haven't yet managed to attract enough investors to one hundred how do you respond to investors who say either you let us have our way over we'll take our project elsewhere does money invest or investors do that i was invest in the thing now i opened it you know can she ation . and what about mr grunow and that building permit his waiting for. is tough and i may as well stick with several times

a year and we're trying to reach agreement and lay out the next steps that will go on these vitamins are you guys satisfied now so minister where at least optimistic is. the meeting in the gym reveals that in the struggle against rising rents many residents feel abandoned by politicians. who decides today what the germany of tomorrow will look like who really wields power in germany. we host residents induced book and life say. this is what members of the german parliament thought their answers would be. back on. politicians political i think people would say politicians because they know politicians don't hold any power goes a hunch or too few said that they're the ones who have the power. because big

business the one percent do corporations i'm guessing i said corporations sold to be the people but it's capital guns our corporations. not politicians they're just figureheads do the ones with the money. do you find these answers frustrating understood no because it's true they're right but that's a problem for democracy i see it worries me my brother they believe that politicians could take the responsibility you found far too tired of the gig and i think we need to do something to show that we're not running after the money so to speak and mr hand. near the parliament building the battle for power and influence also plays out on the real estate market. julian schmidt is on his way home and he's not looking forward to the evening ahead.

tonight his own home is a rink for the round of the real estate power find. somebody was. nice enough to come in to see the flat. like stereo typical angle for hipsters from abroad. it's the visitors are interested in buying the flat that philly and schmidt rents. over so they'll come in and then. take a look at what it should be a brief affair. it's a small apartment only sixty square meters. the parents sleep on the pull out in the living room their seven year old son and four year old daughters sleep next door. this is where the kids sleep. desk is there to. fill in smith moved in here when he was still

a student now the flat is up for sale to potential buyers have arrived. here from the real estate agency. yes. the agent arranged the appointment his clients wish to remain anonymous they from abroad and want to invest in berlin's property market. florian schmidt is a member of the green party and the counsellor responsible for urban development public space and facility management in his district courts back. mr schmidt are you surprised that being a politician doesn't exempt you from the danger of being driven out of your rental no no not at all. that would be good either so being a politician shouldn't guarantee preferential treatment. he holds no grudge against the prospective buyer is the problem lies elsewhere. so i just want to make

it clear to you it's not against you it's more against. the conditions what. would you make your living. as a tenant smith knows he'll probably be the loser in this round. but as a politician schmidt has a different opponent. who wants to build in his district many local residents oppose the path me. of course i'm somewhat wary of such people because they produce a kind of urban environment that doesn't correspond to the type of environment we want to live in. we say that it would be best if buildings were owned by the people who live in them who did it and not by people looking to extract across it from the . same applies to new buildings. we want people who live in the buildings to

buildings as co-ops. we're working for the people mr cloner works for his shareholders. julian schmidt dreams of a city where real estate is in the hands of housing corporative and small property onus. this form a post office tower in smith's district with the intention of installing hundreds of apartments at the time of filming this report he had locked horns over the development with schmidt he believed voters and politicians should have a say. in a complaint the district was delaying the building permit he found a lucrative interim solution though by renting a few floors out as office space. on this day he was using that space to host a new year's event. so. this was. his chance for so luxury

apartments in the tower with welfare housing relegated to a chase and buildings. here in the nice to see you he's become my secret weapon. of the year for you every day each of the individual standing up here go that extra mile to at least since it's not a sacrifice but cation time how much person to get in trouble with their partners at home because they can't explain why. or because they're suspected of having joined a second act and says i'm. so i'd like to say a big thank you to you my colleagues. but there's no no please return to the audience so that everyone can see me. please another round of applause for it is a. counsellor fluidly and schmidt was also invited to the

reception. have a hard enough time as mess funny i got a message from florian schmidt last night telling me he wouldn't be able to make it mainly because of family reasons and maybe another opportunity to meet can be arranged. i'm ready and willing to be happy to have a chance to talk ploy on schmidt as a representative of the people sent by his political party so basically he's just a prisoner of his own circumstance of his party and his district. i wouldn't want to be in his shoes but if i were my do things differently. this is the district courts back fairly and schmidt's district. i don't know where things stand. mr groner is meeting the urban planning committee next week. so maybe that will be

a good time. it was once an activist who attended demonstrations against big business and its representatives people like luna. today he uses his role in city government to steer development in an equitable direction but he can't build the needed living space himself the district has acquired a few buildings but its budget is small so he needs invest his this is a gas station by the canal. today the department is discussing a different project for a longer two year we're talking about closing a gap with the hotel. as a misery against those five say ok well we need to put a big question mark behind that applies and meet and tearing down houses that people live in is just the kind of things we don't want to be doing so for everything to go britons so i'd ask you to not give any recommendations of how this could work to listen to them not at all darker tips ok.

and smith planned to meet soon to discuss how to move forward with a formal postal office building it's unclear how that conversation will go. is wealth power. we are absolutely at a crossroads right now in the twenty first century in this very year given the socio political forces that are operating on a global scale and of course that leads into the political issue political and equality that stems from wealth inequality you hear a lot about how wealthy people seek to influence elections and that is certainly a very real and serious problem but it's much bigger than that. the studies in the us have shown that the wealthy still have the direction of the

country if the rich elites has a policy objective it very often gets what it wants whatever the elite doesn't favor is likely to fall through. even if it's backed by the low income majority. is the same sure in germany. is a political scientist who's investigated this question. we were surprised to find that the situation in germany is skewed in much the same way as described in the us study bundestag lawmakers have consistently geared their decisions to the interests of higher income earners and higher tier jobs and the interests of people who are less or belong to socially disadvantaged groups are systematically given less consideration. and. that. what policies did this impact the research is conducted hundreds of surveys on topics ranging from the economy and environment to foreign infest and finance. they grid subjects into rich

and poor and asked each to define their desired policy outcomes. in what area was a divergence most noticeable. is an obvious example the higher an individual's income the less likely they will be to support a reintroduction of the wealth tax whereas lower income earners definitely want it back to this day we haven't seen the return of such a wealth tax because we're winding up with a government of the one percent for the one percent and by the one percent. at the football stadium in life says christopher glean a has rented a box where a single seat costs ten thousand here i suppose season it's a place to cut business deals. oh i. think the game is on.

cleaner uses the time to network. how are you oh i can't complain. he's often scored goals himself have hit me like recently with another major project that had hit a snag risen in finance we bumped into the city finance minister and had a very polite but firm conversation with him and. there's a different i was none of us in the first two weeks later not we met at his office and found a solution that was for three hundred fifty million euro investment mr thorne. home that's the end politicians know that it's here and these faults that they'll meet the decision makers from the business world could. ultimately have a say in and are responsible for urban development. in big numbers start conversation. yes i mean right now we still have more than

a billion to place. in the land of inequality ordinary people who sit in the bleaches while the movers and shakers seal their deals in private boxes. i. i here in the stadium nights this will end up losing this game. but the deal that counts focused of cloonan takes place at another venue the burden district office of free to decide. back. clinton has an appointment with counselor schmidt. closed door talks have been going on for hours once his building permit schmidt one spouse has to have a say. we talked it's kind of a surprise what we don't have a deal yet but we took a first step today. in my resume how do you see it. you pretty much summed it up in

. the meeting is over but crystal clear not influenced schmidt stay behind for a one on one. colognes carnival is the ice breaker the businessman dons a costume in the annual parade and it brings back memories for the politician. well my mother would dress the whole family up as dying trees in the eighties. now it's time to cut to the chase. my problems with mr schmidt arise when he gets a building permit that he has to sign and he doesn't sign it just doesn't sign. i don't think that's ok i think that's when he should have the guts to say yes i'm a politician and i'm in the green party right now mr going to has a right to his building permit so whether i like it or not i'm going to sign now and then i say there are at least two ways to see that other people would say i have guts precisely because i'm not signing the building permit people to feel

frustrated and i sort of do too even though now i make a decent living i live in a small apartment and i'm looking to move and there's simply nothing on the market . or if there is something one hundred people are waiting in line. they would be welcome to rent one of our flats. we'll see. but i do feel that ultimately what's happening here is a struggle for power and attention for you to your bed and i don't think we'll be assessed by how well we played our hand. at some point someone is going to count apartments and i'd like to be assessed on those merits. a bit. does money change people's behavior. but

it's a question social psychologist pulpits has been researching for years but one of his experiments in this to two hundred people took a rake to game of monopoly. we did in this game of monopoly was just manipulate with the flip the coin whether some people were rich or other people were poor we randomly assigned one person to be this rich player in this rigged game so they got two times the money to play the game they got to roll both dice instead of one to move around the board and what we found is that across all of these different sessions richer players made more noise as they moved around the board. they took up more space in the room with their bodies. we had a bowl of pretzels the richer players took more pretzels. and they're more likely to be talking to the other person with their mouths foals when we ask them to

describe why they'd won if they were way less likely to talk about those external forces those features of the environment their luck that random flip of a coin that had gotten them into that privileged position in the first place and they were more likely far more likely to talk about what they did their own skills their own talents their own successes their own where with all their own aqim and the decisions they made in the game. the world as a bullet came. just of clinton is flying to france for one of the most important events on his annual calendar the real estate exhibition income. of a little girl i could cut to the front was my very self-important person past but i won't. take its to the thick us two thousand.

then investors pledge hundreds of billions of euros. many politicians depend on businessman likely you know now he's about to meet the people he depends on. the property market takes place right next to the yachts home to. investors from all over the world attend it's then money that decides which cities will get new buildings and revive districts and win. miniature models seeking big investors. the mayor of cologne himalaya to is also here. the issue of the building permits. focused of. this threshold he says he'll have it by the beginning of july he satisfied. in can him earlier today is meeting other investors one every half

hour. made him is the biggest property fair in the world or. new york as acquiring a city we were in my own investors to build our property. invest one feel that we have to showcase ourselves. we have to show what cologne has to offer. because cologne pitch is directed at a list investors sovereign wealth fund managers and pension fund executives. who also operate in germany of. christopher gloom and does not want his meetings at the fed to be filmed. here in cannes it's evident that there's no longer such a thing as the economy today this is the real economy where for example people build houses in which other people live and then there's the financial economy where property is just another asset to turn money into more money. the business

journalist. spent he is creating a who's who of the world's richest investors and found out who of the world. be very good do you know the world belongs to those who have mastered the art of using other people's money to turn a profit for themselves in the most efficient way possible. that. this is how the asymmetrical ratio between the real and the financial economy is has developed in the early seventy's the two were still equal but by nine hundred ninety that ratio stood at two to one in two thousand it was three to one in twenty seventeen the world's financial assets amount. to approximately three hundred trillion dollars. the real economy is with just eighty trillion dollars meaning the ratio is now almost four to one. like banks asset managers have

grown increasingly powerful the biggest investment firm is black black cross holdings for example include six percent of siemens shares almost equal to the amount held by the siemens family. in fact blackrock hold shares in every company listed on the german stock exchange and major global companies. in total black rock has assets amounting to some six trillion dollars. meaning it manages more capital than the combined state revenues of the us britain and germany . something has shifted if investors control more money than the world's wealthiest nations they have power and power that politicians can no longer rein in.

it's in the reserve eyes and i know. it's over to a certain extent it's an artificial world in new york the people in new york chicago or los angeles who control international finance capitalism have virtually no contact with the realities of a company. or consumer market leap which developed this courage and i'm for koha mark they're juggling abstract astronomically high figures and trying to meet abstract targets. that's the world they live in. d.c. and all is well in their world as long as the numbers look good and see. it's evening and kind of cleaner is hosting a policy in the. good of finances his multi-billion euro projects with bank loans

but he also needs investors' money. that's a very warm welcome to everyone thank you for coming tonight and because of now it's his turn to pitch was that when i was young. when it comes to bidding we're often at a disadvantage sometimes we don't land the contract for a really big project. because there are other parties with dubious intentions so they buy it divide it up and somehow make a few extra euros selling the pieces and the result is a scattering of overpriced properties what we need is vast financing we need cheap money and for that i need you esteem to bank managers and investors i need your support for this instance mr. minus one it concerns me that there are more and more parties who aren't interested in creating added value they just want to do business. and there's nothing illegal about that per se. but they're stronger than we are. staggered

it seems to me. because the plaintiff has made millions in property development but investors bankrolled. he has to defend his decisions before politicians as well. as. the investors who control the money of the invisible. tonight not one agrees to an interview. it's a new world order. back in berlin. sunday before and. just of clinton is joking to keep up with the global competition he's just arrived from talks with an investor. you know the one where you were in london today and shook things up perth to shrink among. the fans and we didn't very well with our partners.

sorry i can't stop smiling at what point you know it's always a tough game i'm heartless fear. again in which only a select few get a share of the price. people sense correctly that the control of their nation is being stolen from them they sense this all over the world and they're not wrong to do some gifts making people feel like they've been left behind like they no longer belong and they view the future with despair we see it in the drop in party membership as well as in the election results and i think it's a very dangerous development this is and the toilet you're fucked up heating. rights and property prices are rising salaries for the most part are not. there is

a nagging suspicion that politicians are no longer the ones writing the rules opting out of the democratic system is one form of protest. here in la and induce book residents were asked if they vote. kind of what does that mean. you know it depends on the situation. i didn't vote last time because honestly the system is too corrupt. to course. my whole life i went to vote if i was even in a political party for thirty years. in recent years i felt really let down by politicians for not fully q why did you vote last time you know why not. all time unfortunately i know because nothing gets done no matter who is

up there. nothing gets done says alex and her husband mother of baby bella and an older daughter in school alexandra hospital is a single mother. together with her friend mark she shows us their life safe neighborhood of clean no. world our. so it's nice here it's. i wouldn't say it's nice it's not nice here it's the prefabs are nice. yes the prefabs define the neighborhood i agree that's a car so pros cons even. if we do have quiet trams. one out of three residents here didn't vote in the twenty seven thousand general election one of the lowest turnout in germany the majority of those who did custom ballot voted for the far right party. right from the from alexandria when was the

last time you voted. and that. has been cut off single what it was just after my eighteenth birthday. because my older daughter had just been born and this fall i was so proud to be allowed to vote for the first time and i voted. and in the last election now. i've seen i've completely stopped and yes. how come clinton because there's no point. more than anything i think some hurt us but once the children to grow up to have a better life and more opportunities than she's had. she's trained as a theory a trick nurse. work works in a large furniture store. they have differing political views.

on. the menu of votes while ordinary people are heard and seen but the rich hold more sway over political parties. in the potomac oh and there are basically no rich single moms. there are they just have nannies right as i just don't have faith in the political system i do believe that i can change something with my little vote with me that's why i vote but if i thought there was no possibility of changing anything at all i wouldn't go vote either. bugs me the most is the kindergarten and school situation. there's no acknowledgement that it's harder for a single parent to have a proper job that feeds the family then it is for couples. it's among its fighters and as long as those conditions for a single moms don't change i won't go vote. in. the can democracy

work if people don't participate as close as i think they'll be a new order if people stop participating. well then what happens then. instead of democracy will have what. tater ship. what can happen if too many people believe they and their elected representatives no longer have any power. yes shamoun is from munich and teaches political science at harvard university. he's studied the impact of inequality on democracy. and a lot has shifted in germany. twenty years ago only sixteen percent of germans favored having a strong leader who didn't bother with elections and parliament by parliament and. that figure now stands at thirty three percent who. researches younger and older

generations across the world how important it is to them to be living in a country that is governed democratically. the results show that whether a person is from the us poland the netherlands all spain the younger they are the less importance they attach to democracy. in germany two thirds of people over fifty approve of democratic governance not even a third of subjects under thirty feel the same. this matter illustrates the number of people who did not vote in germany's last general election the darker the red the more nonvoters the second map shows how many people voted for the far right. of the dock of the blue the more a fifty voted two forms of protest. beautiful mention as i was the abstract for younger people it's all very abstract. the idea that we could one day

lose our democracy and end up with communism or fascism is unimaginable to them and . so they're more willing to experiment and so i would think ok these people from the a.f.p. and even some of the far left parties time sure they're partially attacking things i actually support but it can't get too bad i was kind of see what they do. in germany populists seizing the moment and echoing those his concerns like here and get it and saxony when many are scared of losing their jobs. they are. to believe it i wasn't the f.t. has organized this rally the main political parties have stayed away so i got cynthia it's an period in which museum ins closes plans hears and moves them into the czech republic ozzy and awful and we're sick of being a cheap labor region. how many of you work from morning till night and still can't

make ends meet. the. free to mention a lot of people are asking what about us glitch where our fates being decided. do we still have an identity to the whole sky high or are those decisions being made somewhere else entirely or for people who are are angry and they're angry for good reason and a lot of european and north american countries but their attention has been diverted to things that aren't really the source of their anger and frustration and that's the dangerous part i think we have learned lessons from the past that we

should not lead to dissin equality go out of bounds we're the only solution is really a destructive one. solutions are needed before populism liers fotis with the false promise of a quick fix but here can offer such solutions would it help to raffle off a few seats in the german parliament among ordinary citizens. should cities be building a food. well housing without the help of investments. should wealth be taxed afternoon. because of clear now wants to continue pulling the strings that shape germany's future maybe even more openly than he is today. interest and do you feel powerful. yes. yes who's more powerful with you all politicians and i was like yes business

managers are more powerful isn't or more powerful because we're independent i'd like to enter politics someday if you use it and you already have a plan for the houses of climate founding a party right now and really just as i think it will soon reach a point when it will be important for actors currently working behind the scenes to step out on to the stage and. nobody can escape person. no matter. how body clocks. recent job studies have shown a sense of time is rooted in some. more things to be distracted.

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