“Be the change you want to see in the world.” -Gandhi

Documentary has as its root word, document which comes from the Latin docere meaning to teach.  The bottom line about The Bottom Line is that we are on this personal journey of trying to make sense of this globalized world. Our attempt to inform others is really born out of our desire to discover for ourselves how we personally can become ethically-minded consumers.

By teaching consumers the importance of economical shopping but never highlighting ethical shopping; by training people to think of their purchasing power in pragmatic terms but never educating them on how to think as conscientious consumers; by instructing individuals in the area of saving dollar and cents but never in the area of buying wisely in order to save lives (or at the very least helping to alter the unjust working conditions that exists in our world today); the financial culture for most mainstream Americans seems somewhat skewed.