This is the airfield for private jets a dissolute over airport entrepreneur christophe grana is one of germanys super rich people who have a lot of say in this country but dont really have them public. Is worth millions and private assets and companies chance. All of a selfmade. Man to try the things that lets say you have two hundred fifty million you can throw it out the window and itll come back in through the door you can destroy it you can buy cars and they go up in value you buy houses and real estate is worth more you buy gold and the gold prices go up you cant destroy money by consuming a consultation and thats because. Weve been following the cost of kona for six months through him and many of us this film takes a look at inequality in germany. At first glance germany is a rich and powerful country full of opportunities but if you look closely youll see wealth as more an evenly distributed here than just about any other industrialized country success often depends on your background. Why is that do the differences threaten social cohesion and democracy to find some answers we go around the world and speak to a Nobel Prize Winner and other experts. Weve looked deeply into the issue of inequality. The world is at a crossroads today people sense that the control of their nation is being stolen from inequality is the most pressing social problem facing us today. Welcome to the land of inequality. Its almost eight in the morning in berlin. Good morning my hide the driver is already waiting when the boss comes he has to get moving right away because of a teachers son has made his way to the top often working twenty hours a day hes whats called a high achiever. Just fine i dont have a driver because im lazy or i think im too good for that on the contrary i like driving im a passionate motorist but the question is what does my company pay me for for sitting behind the Steering Wheel or for working out of the decision of either. Going and his money with a real estate. Company in germany builds as much as his c. G. Group does and in the Housing Market the prices only go in one direction upwards. His company has just bought a very special building the developer wants to turn nashville gets a keitel office block into the tallest residential tower in the city. Because of going it is always up for a challenge people wants to run only way to the top and less than five minutes a race against himself fetching floors one hundred twenty meters six hundred steps. And employee times and with a stopwatch. Its half a minute faster than the last time. Irish from. Well it was pretty perfect. But i could still do it better. Faster in the numbers as an army ranger i can still remember back when i was finishing high school. Chorus to give him i watched bar specker winning wimbledon. And i thought this is just you wait it up just that ill be right up there with you. You see no place. An apartment here will cost between five and ten thousand euros a square meter from a pair corner can look down on many of his construction projects. Im looking you can actually follow the trail of the last twenty years here in berlin of nearly four thousand apartments and the other three thousand are under construction and weve played a big role in Housing Construction here and one of the stalls. This is going his headquarters in berlin every company like this is a realm with the balls at the top and the stuff but me from the i could his company now are always five hundred people they all have good contracts he says. Thank him for the twenty fifteen tax statement from your brother. The now theres a lot to pay. Him the one of the most important employees is his personal assistant anjali gleeson. As its known doesnt he still indecl dorf and hell be going on to zurich then tomorrow who back in berlin friday in life sick and then hell be away over the long weekend. And what about sleep. I think not a lot but there are rumors of between four and six hours i also dont think itll be much more depending on how busy he is or whether hes traveling not if you can tell from when his emails arrive inside and become. Sort of this time that a system like her has at least the same level of stress i have the boss is only as good as his assistant im not going to get if you dont notice that with her shes only been in the job for a few months so shes still fresh but she also has the constitution fortunes pops off to constituents too much salt. One for. My own loves about the dog understands hes had a permanent contract as a Security Guard for half a year. And i know tight fitting of a tie went to school for fourteen years so i speak two or three foreign languages. So if i ever got the opportunity again and had the initiative i could imagine becoming a lawyer or a judge to hear thats something that interests me a lot. Lot about about two thousand euros a month gross thats enough for a modest life but not much move. To think about his boss on the other hand has been able to build up millions of euros and i sets. Can the god live on what he earns from me thats what counts if he can then i have done my job as an employer if i pay a guard so little that he cant live off a salary then ive done something wrong. So you think comparing him with you is nonsense of course its nonsense i stay home from work due to sickness three times in thirty years i ask my guard how many times hes been out sick if i have a slipped disc i come to work if i have a forty degree fever come to work if my wife quarrels with me and keeps me up all night i still come to work as my Security Guard comparing us isnt fair or correct this is to get us to this mystery to it as if you will here ever be able to afford a house with a full litany of course not but he does not want that i know my Security Guards i know my caretakers. Would you like to trade places with him. And i didnt say yes right away i guess if i had to answer spontaneously my first answer would be no and i believe its like thought about it for a long time it would still be no thats actually got a lot less to do with him as a person or what he does its just. Theres a lot of data about poverty in the pool that very little about the rich a state asset registry would help but there isnt one and so a team from the German Institute for Economic Research is trying to find out move with. The man im a physician if i move if you try to represent the Wealth Distribution in germany in a graphic way you can do it quite simple and on an a for sheet of paper and a few. Its welcome and you can imagine a coordinate system like its cool to see with an x. Axis and a y. Axis and with a y. Axis here i show the amount of wealth for new ones well you could easily display ninety five percent of the population on this sheet with a target result and i start here in the minus area because a part of the population is in debt or even insolvent and then theres a relatively broad area where assets are virtually zero from the intelligence finally starts to increase exponentially at the outer edge doctors this describes ninety five percent of the population but the question is of course how far away is the richest person from this heist and manage a magazine put stuff on Family Business at the top of its rich list for germany the familys estimated worth thirty three billion euros so if ninety five percent of germans are graphed on a four sheet that imans would be a whopping six point six kilometers further away. Every era has its mother load in the past comic has made big money still the families who own the big trading houses became hugely wealthy now Real Estate Developers have joined the. Cost of clearness rise began here in like six twenty years ago invested when prices were low. It was all ruins and all scrap. Pile of everything you see to the left and right has been we developed built and rented out by us. His company says it now builds one in three new apartments in the city and because of current his career has been unusual he was not born a boss he used to work on construction sites himself. Trying to my defense by this time it looks like every other stone has been replaced year with expertise with a sense of proportion to create an entire day of five senses and it helps if you have worked on scaffolding like this yourself i can do masonry i can lay concrete i can lease steel i can plaster walls lee tiles put up the sides but that was my career this is the Company Started out as christoph going about his Building Services and then we took on specialized Construction Contractor work in project development until we became the company that we are today at this and i mean just ahead of us what. Curnow has also invested in this for my industrial district. This is the class family thomas and cutler and what that two children they live in a rented apartment around the corner they wouldnt mind having one more room. I guess this is. Where you have to say its an oasis in a built up environment each building has nine classic apartments and two paint houses one large and one small at the top. Which you know id like to show you all the floor plans in the trailer. Its just its so were about where the woman is right now you know what meaning you know the house is next to that and you how is this themselves or at least twenty meters further advances ok. I snuck back to the penthouse apartments there we have a four room one hundred twenty three square meter apartment with a sixty square metre roof terrace i think we need to be realistic a penthouse isnt what we need or what we can afford i think a classic form apartment with a balcony or shared garden i think thats what we be looking for that would interest us how much was rebuilt in los angeles on this. That was a month then lets take a look at a floor plan parents would practically have a separate wing here a sandpits playground and recreation area. Considered so in general the target. Is young families useful yes typical young families going to give me some idea of the scale and id be interested in a four room apartment on the first floor would come at three thousand four hundred fifty year of a city or. For an apartment would cost four hundred fifty thousand euros to buy the classes are a typical middle class family they both have good jobs buying property used to be the way to Start Building up assets. At this point i think we were thirty before we could even start to think about our old age and accumulating wealth and off to doing. Isnt it now im almost forty and we still havent managed to put away much in terms of reserves. You know how to even come up with the minimum amount of capital so that banks will be able to give us a loan along as an installer yes were sticking point. Ninety four percent of buyers here arent from saxony that means this is currently a market where normal saxons cant participate even if. The close family isnt the only one with little chance of owning their own place and all the richest five percent of germans own half the apartments and houses. Every second person owns no property at all most germans rent and having to pay more and move for a living space. The Purchase Price of an eighty square meter apartment has sold in the last ten years. One thing is an extreme case only ten percent of the people here own real estate. Sixty percent of all New Buildings are ninety four percent of refurbished Old Buildings have gone to bias from out of town. City of oil and you want to get your shoes dirty mr. Theory for studious. While the class family has a tates others a snapping up the houses on the market and if you make a killing again or he did did he get another bargain especially among them we keep getting repeat offenders here they buy one house after another this is the third right its a second of his second complete one and the apartment before we went for a meal and i said it wont cost less than four point five and he got it for three so im very easy right. This is sort of hard and today the time is ripe for us to make money here with the standard. And my Company Urgently needs it its a damned thing and thats not a crime as you know i dont think it is such a bad thing for as often. The Real Estate Market is symptomatic it enables those on top to make more profits while others can hardly afford to live in that and city anymore. Oh wait did you come what you said stated that if this is. Behind this is the most basic question does profit for the one mean loss for the others. Todays typical property by as a rich people well off retirees and yes and investors. Things like this until the obvious like thomas clone sent us colleagues can only look on it as overkill this is a little shit i was really struck honestly when i look at whats being built in the district i need a practical apartment to live in and i dont think theyre building them to be left and theyre building them as investments and i cant join in that game which none of my colleagues can either. Use a state machine that probably also creates housing that doesnt meet the needs of the city and most of the population wasnt scary because many people are being left behind banks sticking by if you have to take a blame the its location there are many parts of leipzig where nowadays you find one place with high priced apartments and another where the people who just couldnt afford to live in them anymore had to move to someplace might become an essential its a crappy situation when you say that for whatever reason you have to get out of your apartment but youd like to stay in your neighborhood but thats not possible. In a neighborhood in the eastern part of poland. Has been the scene of an escalating conflict between residents who are afraid of losing out economically and the man they accuse of making the deal of his life here. Because. Of course in iraq and his Security Guard stays close by when hes here he usually gets Police Protection saw. It well im going to be disturbing your lunch break today so let me at least say good morning. About your friend who has been the focus of an angry backlash his opponents film the First Encounter with residents and protesters. I. Started let me ask you is this a dialogue. Rush or this guy was nice whether. They were meeting me for the first time you could call the birth of the boogie men and when they get to see an entrepreneur who is arguments on his side it wont back down missions playing by could i tell you i mean how do i know it was was do you think it was yeah. I know. Because it is and its precisely this stupid thinking that prevails in society thinking theres always a direct connection and he makes money has become wealthy so he must have stolen it from someone that its not going im going its all about politics that hes charging twelve years a square meter nobody can afford that a different set of files but we have smaller apartments thirty five forty fifty square meters which any nurse can afford even at fourteen years a square meter my friends and i want as long as its well made has great light shed love to live there instead of in sixty square meters over there for a year as a square meter oil. Co knows that many of his workmen or the Police Officers who protect him have difficulties finding Affordable Housing but he says his millions of square meters are not the cause of the problem but part of the solution. How do you strike the right balance between rewarding achievement. Letting everyone share and thats. What consequences does inequality have for a society. The real general finding is that inequality being a way of making people feel more distant from one another. Stretches the social fabric it frays the social fabric it pulls us apart from one another physically experience joy and psychologically theres nothing necessarily wrong with inequality of course people have an unequal endowments of intelligence and beauty and they have different parents and where i start to worry is a sociologists is when people accumulate dynastic wealth and dynastic wealth means a lot of money that gets transferred down through generations because that starts to stabilize systems of inequality across society and that constricts the opportunities available to everybody else. Cost of governor may have worked his way to the top but even for him theres still a Glass Ceiling you can buy your way into the world of domestic wealth you can only be born into it. If i have for the best all time traces his family tree back to the year eleven thirty five hes a descendant of the focus one of the richest families of the middle ages. Oh there are hundreds of images you can always use a winch to pull in the deer and youve killed a stag which normally weighs well over one hundred kilos then you need mechanical help to get it into the vehicle to be. Just how you would look a bit odd when you drive around towing a dead deer in a trailer people sometimes find that a little strange. Isnt loaded on much money activity. Because hes is to transport dead stands as an old austrian military vehicle. For the first full time uses in the three hundred hectares a forest he owns somewhere in central germany where not allowed to say exactly where that was his condition for letting us film him. Discretion is everything. Wired some visits and owning a farzad is a wonderful feeling because you have the run of it so to speak of who will do a lot. Of. Sculpting i think it was the publisher of the site count has done half as well who once said do you always have to own everything you love are you good i can comprehend the question philosophically but if i answer according to my Natural Instincts id say yes i like owning things that i find beautiful when rush to get a thing at the one i was sure and infinit because its. Almost. Not because we had the great inequality that exists. In vilma folks which of his we wanted for the economy and its unavoidable the mother stayed the sob easily if youre an entrepreneur and you have inherited something and keep it running properly you will have more than someone whos just an employee. That is it and you think that things are by and large fair in germany through good. Yes by and large i do i dont sense any real feeling of injustice on the part of most people on the street but in my eyes the lord of the country is one hundred. During the