Half of full-time workers in the United States cannot make ends meet. Thousands of them work for the Walt Disney Company. One of them reached out to the dissident heiress Abigail Disney, whose grandfather Roy Disney built what is often called the “happiest place on Earth.” Now she’s made a documentary about how the family business exploits its workers: “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales.” The film follows workers who have difficulty making ends meet despite the lofty claims of the Disney conglomerate. “This is a phenomenon that’s happening across this country in corporations and even around the world,” says Disney, who co-directed the film with Kathleen Hughes. Employees who agreed to be filmed “had a hope that if they could change Disney from within, Disney could lead the way for other corporations,” notes Hughes.
people save for years to take their family on this very, very expensive adventure at Disney World and Disneyland. But, you know, Disney is a big American corporation. And like so many corporations, it spreads — well, it spreads its money around into all levels of government. And it does that in order to get tax breaks, subsidies and the rest of it. They kind of, you know — I mean, all of us have heard about how there’s so much money in politics, and this is why these companies spend all that money.
So, in Anaheim, in particular, we found out — and so, we kind of know all that, but what we found out was that over a period of about two decades, Disney received a billion dollars in tax breaks and subsidies from the city
— source democracynow.org | Sep 21, 2022