It's an interesting video and hits on the point of internal division pretty squarely. Whenever I see these kinds of things, my next thought is always about what I can actually do. I know I can't fix the system, but these high level overviews only ever take a bird's eye view of a massive problem and leave it at that. I, as an individual, know I won't be making massive changes, that's not what I'm called to do, but I also end up feeling pretty powerless in the face of everything. It's an interesting new feeling for me, I'm still trying to work it out.
If you think about it, if you start a company, become a billionaire, and decide to solve inequality, you'll still be pretty powerless. You'll have a lot more power than us peons, but a lot more than next to nothing can still be next to nothing. I guess the question is, how do social movements take place, and what does being active within a social movement look like? That is kind of a tough conceptual problem. What caused the french revolution? It was both external and internal political forces that brought it about, and there were a lot of both. There was also a lot going on socially. The number of things that came together just so, that allowed the french revolution to happen are arguably beyond the intentions of anyone. Social movements happen because circumstances allow them to happen, but people and culture play some role in that. I think the best we can do, if we're upset about inequality, is try to leverage whatever power we have to alleviate it where it comes in contact with us; that is probably what being part of a social movement looks like on the individual level. How do we know a social movement is even happening? We might not know until it has already taken place. It isn't particularly grand, but I think it is hard to conceive of it any other way. A social movement is a lot of little things happening together; all you can do is make sure you're contributing your part, doing your little things, and hope that everyone else does, too.