The Big Sellout

If to “sell” is human as author Daniel Pink argues, I hope to sell you on this movie, “The Big Sellout.”  The movie discusses the human effects of privatization. 

Here are the opening lines:

“Joseph Stiglitz: I once made a comparison between certain aspects of the way economic policy is done and modern warfare. 

Modern warfare has tried to de-humanize, to take out the sympathetic element. So you drop bombs from 15,000 feet; you don’t know who they are landing on, you don’t see the damage. You are flying very high up, and it’s almost like a video game. You talk about “body counts” – de-humanizing the whole process.