Make a Million (1935) COMEDY 

Right, but not LOL... Cry Out Loud ! We are all in danger....

@@marksuits4379 that's exactly how I meant it! we are in danger is right!

ok I'll edit out the lol.....LOL!

​@@playsindirtnapsalot.299 No no. It's fine... 35 years ago we used to use LOL to mean "Little Old Lady" because slow moving old ladies on Paris sidewalks seemed to have eyes in the back of their heads and would always swerve on the direction one tried to pass them the glare with a shaking cane or umbrella... but besides being a stickler about words, LOL does work.

@@markwinstonsuits8680 interesting, Little Old Lady, have to tell my LOL friends. LOL! Thanks for the far away history lesson and memories. I remember the glares I'd sometimes get from a few LOLs as I rode by on my motorcycle, giving them plenty of space as they walked on the roadside, but they'd still stop and glare as if I was out to run them down. again with the LOL! But the others who told me of riding in their younger days made up for the crabbys.

Consider yourself part of the family america☺

There were many that attacked the corrupt/idle rich and celebrated the poor, including My Man Godfrey and Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington. Redistribution of wealth from the useless elite to the common people was usually the theme. Prior to the Hays rulings and FDR's pushing of the ideas of the Brain Trust, mentioned in this movie, in the early 1930s, the rich were portrayed as living an enviable life free from the restrictions of middle class morality, although to get around censorship by states they might have alternate scenes, such as in Gold Diggers of 1933. Gold Diggers of 1935 was one of the last truly controversial musical comedies before Hays shut them down, with its relentless and horrible Lullaby of Broadway "mini movie inside a movie," with its eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow you die attitude.

Very underrated.

Safe and sound because the Hays commission clamped down and censored movies, preventing as much free speech as possible.

Did you notice he saw it was fake immediately?

I had a Sociology prof say the same thing to me in 1978 after I had already served 4yrs. in police work. I poured a drink on his Birkenstocks and failed his class.

@@DavidRice111 Where are the arsonists when we need them? When the colony of New York sent agents to rule Vermont, the Green Mountain Boys burned down his house.

A lot of "educated" people are underemployed or jobless. Degrees in oversupply have lost their marketing value in present-day capitalist system. US economy in the 40's and 50's was booming when people had less degrees but more hard skills, trained on the job, rather than expected to have fancy degrees to be recruited for the sake of their "prestige" rather than practical use. 80% of jobs don't need degrees but proficiency that comes with professional experience. Banks bailed out in the late 2000's were indeed begging money to avoid bankruptcy. Not so subtle.

In the 40's less than 10% had degrees, yet the USA was more industrialized than now!

About fifty years ago when I began my scramble to get the first of several college degrees it accrued to me that the education system was set up to keep people(kids) out of the job market by having them continue in school after the eight grade. Some of us were diverted to trade schools while other entered the job market with mixed results. Presently, I have seen a movement afoot to have young folks not go to college but take up trades. The argument now, that not all youngsters need to get a college education and that a satisfying life can be built around a trade school education; Not the rhetoric of fifty years ago!

Except for Sweden, Norway, Iceland, France, Ireland, Italy, Brazil, Germany, Denmark, France, Peru, the UK, and many others. Not all of them are equally successful, but they're better than the political see-saw we're stuck with. Check it out. For the most part, life for the average Joe and Kathy is a lot better there than here. And it's getting worse, the farther we get from socialist ideas, such as medicare for all. The USA is no longer the great place to live it tried to be. And still could be, once we stop loving dictators.

The professor became a successful capitalist in the end.

@@jonathanstewart351 Those countries only have degrees of socialism, with France probably being the most. Sweden completely abandoned socialist style education and now has a total voucher system so that schools must compete for finances. England was drowning in socialist business practice until Margaret Thatcher cut taxes and privatized a large swath of industry. They went from IMF crutch to being a financial leader. The ONLY thing that they have in "socialistic" place is a form of health insurance/medical provision, but you still must pay into it in order to use it. And, as nice as that is at times, routine surgeries are many times put off for years simply because of insufficient funding. France is drowning financially since they nationalized many industries many years ago. They are very few true socialist nations. Venezuela is one, Cuba another. In order for socialism to work you must control people as well as their public expression. Socialism is always about control, always. Without capitalism, you have very little to no innovation. The environment just doesn't allow for it. There is only one nation with a mostly successful socialist system, and that is Israel. Their advantage, and reason, is because of how small they are. They are quite an interesting study. In fact, I would put them in a unique category.

Any teacher regardless of political beliefs who requires you to spit back his/her point of view on exams is a disgrace. There were 3 Marxist philosophy professors in my college. 2 of 3 required that you not think for yourself but only what they told you to think. One I knew by reputation; the other after experiencing it first hand and then dropping his class.

It is meant to SEEM not to be serious. That is part of the camouflage.

They still make such mistakes, so a domputer wouldn't have been of much help. A more careful proofreader was what they lacked.

Computer, sorry, I didn't proofread my comment.

@@alphonsozorro7952 I thought you did that on purpose; made it funnier!

"...an economics professor who must prove those theories are correct in order to keep his job" Real life academics don't have such a challenging job.

@@alphonsozorro7952 def should have more hands on and trade trading in high school.

Not "socialist" propaganda, strawman tactics to ridicule anti-capitalist values.

No, the more reactionary US academia gets, the less freedom you have.

Steve.

Because you got it wrong, you think others didn't get it.

john buchinsky, reactionary dude

SO TRUE.

They fire millions of WORKING people, and then they blame their victims for not getting a new job, because they are lazy. The rapid capitalists way of explaining away the social mayhem, they created!

That's how people felt then and they also do and feel the same now.History repeats itself .It's sad this country really hasn't changed.The rich get richer the poor get poorer. Bankers and Lawyers rule everything they are the 1% that benefit and keep everyone down.

Go live in N.Korea or China if it's so bad here. You would fit right in...

Blaming the victims, then and now, is the capitalist tirade against the unprivileged.

Job-mentality is un-American. 1890 90% of Americans self-employed. 1990 10% of Americans self-employed. Modern America is un-American.