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Required viewing for all first world citizens
This is an extremely poignant view of how our thirst for luxury puts the majority of the world at our whim, making them our invisible slaves. The people who sew our shirts, pick our bananas, and make our shoes are caught in a vicious cycle that keeps them bent to our oppression. It is something we never see -- and because of that, we never care. In this film we are forced to look at things we've never been told about and to understand the reasons and events behind our global poverty crisis. This is a fantastic film for youth groups and it sparks great discussion. Every highschooler should be required to view this in their economics class. Every adult should be required to view this before they decide to take an all-inclusive vacation. This IS the real Cancun -- ahem, Jamaica. We need to learn that our decisions as consumers and as a country affect the lives of millions of people, and that we, as consumers, could make those lives better by choosing to live differently. This film can do that, and it is absolutely required viewing for all first world citizens.

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life and debt
If you can get yourself past the heavyhanded judgment now and then (of nearly all tourists in Jamaica, for example), this movie does an excellent job of quantifying the questionable role of the World Bank in Jamaica's domestic affairs. Under the guise of assistance from above for the island to join the world economy, instead what we witness is a systematic deterioration of Jamaican business enterprises while the "world" takes advantage wherever it can.
I must say that previous to viewing this film, I was hardly convinced that the demonstrators at World Bank events weren't ideologues of the type I usually find painful to listen to. Now, I'm not convinced still, but I sure am interested to investigate the veracity of this film's thesis.
I much enjoyed the scenes of everyday workers in various enterprises on the island. Their testaments have the ring of truth to them. The montage of the film is well balanced. The overall effect is compelling.

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It is what it is
There are no invisible slaves here, just arrogant caucasions who refused to accept the facts about being savages who killed their way to the top, and yet manages to call this being civilize. tsk tsk If anyone hasnt seen Michael Moore movie about the 911 I suggest that you all go see it to see the truth of the matter. Indeed, nothing has change with ol'Euro-corporate mentality ( survival of the fittest is a joke). Its more like who kills and gains first will be in control when the war ends. We all know that Europeans were not handed ppls resources, the Europeans took ppls resources and use ppl as slaves to enrich their own lives, as can still be seen today in third world countries were the ppl are kept in concentration camps and are forced to work in most cases and are under paid to survive even to the minimum level with their countries cost of living. There are a lot of European companies who are benefiting from these crimes against humanity. So, this movie is just one out of many showing the psychological differences between ppl based on how they developed and what they inherit to survive. It will be many more yrs before humanity is on the same page, and to get there, chaos cannot be in the equation. Nor excuses..................