Adam Curtis: Can't Get You Out of My Head, 3 - Money Changes Everything

A collage of stories from the early years of neoliberal globalization, organized around the theme of how systems which people think are stable and self-correcting, such as climate and utopian social experiments, have frustrated our expectations. As coal gave way to oil, the organizing power of the miners gave way to that of oil producing states, which empowered bankers lending out petrodollars, and enabled China to redirect its economy to producing cheap consumer goods. Scientists began understanding the workings of the global climate, while Soviet emigrés in the United States were disillusioned by a society that was all about money.