Poor Us: An Animated History of Poverty⎜WHY POVERTY?⎜(Documentary)
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- Do we know what poverty is?
The poor may always have been with us, but attitudes towards them have changed. Beginning in the Neolithic Age, Ben Lewis's film takes us through the changing world of poverty. You go to sleep, you dream, you become poor through the ages. And when you awake, what can you say about poverty now? There are still very poor people, to be sure, but the new poverty has more to do with inequality.
Director Ben Lewis
Producer Femke Volting & Bruno Felix
Produced by Submarine
2012
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This has been given to me as a assignment
+Mangotlo Fumani i feel ya buddy same thing here, but lets be honest it could be worse.
+DirtyyDuck Guys, they gave it to me too as a HW :D
Did you pass?
Sameeee
Same. To talk about everything that was talked about in here and make a huge mind map of it, connecting past points that we had mentioned before into it.
the “a virus with no cure” in 2020 hits hard
Dammit. That is just insane. TO think this was uploaded 2013.
This was really beautiful. I've watched tens of documentaries and read hundreds of articles on inequality and poverty, and some ideas here are really nice. This documentary, however, does seem to be trying to appease population. We should not relax. We should be really angry. We are being taken advantage of.
It may have seemed that it was telling us to "relax", but it wasn't. It was telling us that we as a society have tried various forms of ideas to eliminate poverty, some had some success, but not wholly so. A lot of poverty is the result of greed. There is no one answer. We as humans, dont seem to have the solution to a global cure to poverty. We clearly need something else.
" you cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking when you created them" - albert Einstein
Hey man
Beautiful Narration, it's calming and calculative yet harsh at the same time.
Yeah, this video pretty much paraphrases why don't believe real change will come from 'anyone'. Because it's not just politicians who are selfish and self-interested, it's people. It's all fine and good to go out in the street and protest against "big money" for all the stuff they do and how they live off our toil and sweat, but when someone points that same finger at us and shows us how almost everything we wear and use is made from virtual slaves in third world hell-holes our government takes pains to keep that way, there is rolling-eyes and silence.
No one is going to stop shopping at Walmart because they profit personally. No one is going to stop using or buying electronics because they benefit, personally. No one is going to stop wearing clothes or using products made in such fashions because they benefit personally. Why do the rich do what they do? The same reasons we do..because we benefit from it, and we don't really give a shit about anyone else if we can get away with it.
AMEN
We dont give a shit till it effects us personally. By that time the situation is so bad it may be unfixable.
u could be right. we certainly can't expect big corporations to stop exploiting us whilst we exploit others ('others' most of all being animals). but we may not always turn away from our darkness. may not always be able to
Well said. Anyone of us can turn out rich or poor.
Yo wanna be Frien?
Definition of poverty: the way that 99% of humanity has always lived throughout recorded history and pre-history.
thank you for doing these in such a high frequency and quality. outstanding, really.
like his Jamaican accent !!!
Nigerian
@@mcBaronGonzalez Jamaican
Me too!!
I really like how this is set.
This documentary skims through a lot of history, and makes a lot of statements that are open to argument without backing them up.
Poverty is not hunger, or lack of accommodation or clothing or medical care. By the same token wealth is not a full fridge, comfortable home, fast car, vacation abroad now and then. Poverty is not having what others have within a given society. Wealth is having what others in the same society can only dream about. To support this thesis, imagine yourself working hard in a field and struggling to feed yourself and your family. You actually enjoy this as long as everyone else around you is in the same plight. The moment there appears someone in the society living comfortably without having to do anything useful to that society and your perception of yourself changes in an instant. You feel opressed and exploited. What makes our world miserable is not poverty, but barefaced international theft and plunder on a global scale. Stop the theft and 7 billion people become happy as so many larks and humanity as a whole is spared yet another bloody war.
The problem isn't that rich people exist. The problem is when they oppress those who are poor and grow poverty for their own gain. If everyone was poor, things would not be better--those societies which were were often violent and desperate.
I finished high school. I finished college. I got a master's degree. I learned fluent Spanish. I became computer literate. I sent out thousands of resumes. I signed up with temp agencies. I started up a dozen home businesses (all failed). I applied for any and all jobs. And what happened? I was out of work 13 of 15 years, 5 years-in-a-row and now I'm evicted from my house and impoverished - relying on medicaid, food stamps, and federal SSI. What happened!!
Wow that is crazy 🤪
Ok. I'm going to thumbs up this, for education, and mild entertainment. Our system, with all its complexity, is nothing but an extrapolation of some very simple principles. The analogy I have used is that of a group on a small island. If we can break the grip of programmed thinking, we can restore the understanding of the island nation Earth. We are not here to fight and struggle, horde and steal, we are one group, sharing one island, and we are all related to one another. Can we act like it? That is the biggest threat to ANY nation, any group. And they damned well know it. It brings the paradigm that keeps them on top, tumbling down. And makes OUR lives a hell of a freak'in massively, hugely, ginormously lot better. On every front.
I appreciate the few thumbs up. I wish more people could watch this and just take it for what it is. There are so many more like it and with even better arguments for change.
You ask "Why Poverty?",
I ask "Why Capital?"!
I liked the video.
But, I could see on the numerous comments lots of different points of view, miraculous solutions, meritocracy, etc.
I do not know what any people living in a developed country could understand, what is living in poverty.
Poverty is not only not having money. Poverty is the real conditions you have for living, and the real conditions you have for evolving as an active person to the community, to the labour force, to the society.
It will depend on all those conditions for you to have the perspective of having a wretched life, or a minimum prosper life.
Do any of you know poverty in fact?
Do you know what is living in a place without any infrastructure. Without clear water, without sanitation, without access to a good health service, no education?
Seeing your kids crying for food, and you incapable of doing anything to meet the minimum needs for them?
And that thought hammering in your head, "There is nothing I can do to change this now and their future is far better worse than it is now!!! Inevitably!!!
Some of you just said, "I have made myself. I have studied by my own. I have created the conditions to not being poor by my means. All meritocratic bullshit!
I wonder if you were born in India, Cuba, Congo or any other poor country, I mean real poor!!! You would have the same opinion.
Poverty is a precondition even before you are born.
If you are lucky enough to be born in a developed country, or in a under developing country but, not in the guettos, if you are born not a white person, not ill. If you survive your childhood from diseases which are eradicated in great part of the world.
If, if, if, there are too many conditionals for a person to escape from poverty. Few ones have succeeded, few are really few.
Take a time to know poverty if you have the chance. Talk to someone from' Doctors without Borders" or any other humanitarian organization.
I know poverty, I am one of these, a poor.
I live in Brazil, a country full of contrasts, where the discrepancy between rich and poor is huge.
I am poor, but not the poorest in my country. I live near the rich and poor world, I see people in the minimum conditions of life. And at the same time I see wealthy people living in islands sorrounded by slum districts.
I will no longer continue to comment. I just advise you to get to know poverty before speculating the solutions or opinions.
Indeed. I was born in Cuba and living in a "wealthy" country and they don't have a clue about our very reality but they always seem to know better than ourselves. That's why the gap between poor and rich keeps growing cause they are going to said :my grandpa did this to you -not me; while feeding the same entrapped system.
Sheldon Cooper "If you are lucky enough to be born in a developed country, or in a under developing country but, not in the ghettos, if you are born not a white person, not ill." Honestly what I got from that was not that the person who wrote this was racist, it was that the world is racist or rather biased. Idk exactly how it would be that racist.
Sheldon Cooper, you might have misinterpreted my statement!
I am not a racist! I live in a racist country, I see racism everyday with my own eyes!
I say, that if someone is not white, here in my country, he or she has already lost too many opportunities to achieve success in his or her life!
There is no proper healthcare, education and equality in comparison to the white ones here in Brazil
I am certainly not a racist, as I had mentioned back in my text.
It is easy not knowing the real poverty once you had never been in poverty.
@@mcBaronGonzalez exactly, it was their grand parents, but that wealth was inherited by their children. Saw this video a couple days ago (/watch?v=WNYemuiAOfU) about the Glencore Company that was exporting all the Copper from Zambia Africa making billions of dollars per year, and giving to Zambians only 50 million, which is less than 1.7% of what they were making. The CEO was the biggest fraudster in the history who didn't pay taxes in USA and fled to Switzerland and after a few years George Bush pardoned him so he didn't have to go to jail anymore and could return to USA. So basically when you have billions of dollars you can buy out Kings and Presidents. Sure, now there's a new CEO, they're changing the laws in that African country, but all the billions are gone. The new CEO of course is not guilty, his Company is not corrupt, it might have been in the past, but that's the past, right?
Just like the slave traders. Sure they stopped doing it but they kept all the money. The laws don't apply to the rich and they'll always come up with a way to stay on top and continue to exploit others at a rate of at least 10 to 1.
I watched this a few years ago, I think I was 15. It really broke down a lot that I hadn't understood before, I even re-watched it with my parents. Super cool documentary. :) This is coming from an artist who get's distracted very easily, haha.
I keep seeing you all around youtube comment sections
that whispering is driving me nuts
So much progress, humans are amazing. I’m actually more optimistic after watching this, and far more grateful to have been born in 1988. But I also share Edvard Munch's scream whenever I watch art auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s taking place.
This documentary is really interesting
Hello annika
Well said. Ideologies are not sufficient to address the problem.
II. (continue from I.)
You watched the video. Anyway,
there are bit tricky questions that I want to asked:
Our resources are still abundant, but why is there a poverty?
Why are we competing to each other instead sharing to each other?
Why are we repeating our problems and sufferings over and over again?
Is our money necessary for our future of mankind?
"Count your money. Keep it simple. Don't blow it".
Watching this documentary I finally realized that Hitchens was right when he said that religion poisons everything.
(1 of 2) As a Indian I do struggle with the idea of poverty. Growing up in india I always wondered "How did it get so bad ?". Are we indians not hard working like the westerners who use phrases like "I worked really hard to get here". I see it in western media all the time. Lot of people blame colonialism and the new westerners give it back to colonised countries saying "Well we did not do it.You are free now". Then i came across this 20 year world economy report published by OECD (Contd ..2)
That was so scary to watch, but this was and is the reality for billions of people.
thks but the animation;
I've seen it before & its about an hour but can't remember the name.
??Could someone tell me the tilte & where I can get it?
Can someone please explain why the "Wicked Witch of the East" is in the Karl Marx scene at 27:57? It's been bothering me and I can't work it out. Karl Marx was said that "Religion is the opium of the people." It keeps them numb. In "The Wizard of Oz" the characters fall asleep in a field of poppies (symbolic opium?). What does this mean?
Nevermind. I think I understand...some atheists regard "The Wizard of Oz" as an atheist allegory because there is no real wizard of oz, and everything is an illusion (the city isn't emerald, the wizard just forces everyone to wear green tinted glasses). Obviously the wizard represents god. I'd love to hear anyone else's theories!
samantharose wait a minute their is witch ?
Not having money isn't the problem. It's not knowing what to do with it when you have it. That's the problem. Education is the answer
If u don't have too pay for necessity for life , then they would have know hold over u ,
Nice post. It is always encouraging to see comments about a Resource-based economy. The awareness does seem to be growing and every comment like yours that points out the root cause of our problems (the for profit monetary system) and a possible solution (a Resource-based economy) is one more step toward a cultural shift.
Watched this for my class, good video
Knowledge is power and power is money. The only way to end poverty is to invest in science and education.
How about making and becoming friends to each other?
I live in Japan. We have accessible education to everyone, but we still have people who die due to starvation.
True knowledge will teach you that most poverty isn't real, in the sense that you think. To have lots of money does not negate a happy life. It is the false illusion of the world that makes one think that lots of "things" and material possessions is good and no "things and stuff" is bad. Many societies survive with a lot less than the US has, and it is the idea that people that don't have lots of things are in poverty when the "things" aren't even necessities usually. The external things are merely for enhancing one's ego. It is the desire to fit in or make one self look better in social standing that makes us seek things like wealth and education. But, it is a socially promoted illusion to think that wealth and education are necessary to live a happy life.
The basic life of all humans is the same, regardless of income. Wealth merely dictates the style in which someone lives and is not necessarily better or worse. To say someone who pees in a bucket is poor while someone who pees in a toilet is rich is superficial because the truth is: we all pee and it is not really a huge difference. One can live in a house made of gold or a house made of dirt: it is only the house (or the external thing) that is different. Inside the house, a human sleeps, sits, eats, and sings or whatever.
Not having food and a place to live is definitely real poverty. If left alone, that problem will end itself within a month or so due to a person's starvation death. It is giving people tiny amounts to barely sustain themselves without teaching them self sufficiency or providing a solution that perpetuates the problem. That is sort of like torturing/teasing them.. Either totally help them learn to permanently sustain their existence or back off entirely to solve that problem.
Heather Gleason
"To say someone who pees in a bucket is poor while someone who pees in a toilet is rich is superficial because the truth is: we all pee and it is not really a huge difference."
It's not that I totally disagree with you, but I'd say that indoor-plumbing and a modern sewer-system makes a pretty big difference.
I would also argue that many commercial products really do make life more enjoyable, and don't just provide an ego-boost for consumers. Things like computers, cell-phones, modern transportation, actually enrich our lives by allowing people to explore and do things that would be almost impossible to achieve without such technology.
Good education gives people the tools they need to not only rise out of poverty, but to advance technologically and significantly improve their standard of living.
ramjp
Japan has to import a significant percentage of its food supply from other countries due to its high population and limited farm land. Without the excess wealth created from high-tech industries, Japan would have a much harder time feeding its population.
Heather Gleason You made a valid point. GG
Nice video. But it leaves out a very important part of western history that was key in reducing poverty. The commentators in this video all act like the reduction is a mystery and just somehow happened miraculously. But its not a mystery. The biggest factor was the rise of social reforms in the early 1900s - labor unions, new laws about work conditions and wages, rules about sanitation in rental buildings, mandatory education, and later the civil rights movement and laws against discrimination, not to mention the rise of socialist programs that provides a safety net for many people (food stamps, Social Security, medical, etc). All of those reforms had a dramatic impact in the reduction of poverty through Europe and the US. The rate of poverty among the elderly in the US was severe until 1935 with the introduction of Soc Sec which was the single biggest factor that changed that reality. Europe and Canada have been champions of socialist aid (to benefit all, not just the poor) without being communist in order to do it (such as socialized medicine and free college educations) which has had a very positive impact on those societies. This video barely broaches the topic of these social reforms, leaving a big hole in its presentation.
For some strange reason I thought this video would explain Why Poverty exist. Not the what, the who, the when or the how but the WHY!!!
Actually the video's title is "Poor Us: an animated history" and it comes from a website named "Why Poverty?" and therein lies your confusion.
There is an excellent documentary that has a thesis that poverty is based on for an example geographical location, where in the world people are has an influence on their farming capabilities for an example not every country had horses or other animals to make farming easier and therefore have more resources to create specialists within science or other areas that might improve life. Can’t remember the name of the documentary but it did explain "why poverty exist"
poverty is a natural condition of the human being. Adam Smith try to aswer an exactly opposite question in 1776, because everything he see at that time was poverty, but in same way things was starting to change.
It does explain the trends that lead to poverty, thus why poverty develops. Or are you asking existentially?
great doc, very informative!
36:03 and turn on the subtitles XD
Can someone tell me how is animation like in 6:16 done?
Lots of FPS?
The problem is not poverty; its wealth - the concentration of it among the rich. The film doesn't bring up the issue of class. "Poverty has always been with us?" Poverty has been with us as long as we have had society divided in to classes of rich and poor. Get rid of the rich and we'll get rid of poverty. Interestingly, when talking about medieval Paris the scholar says that poverty was likely 50%. But that is what we have today in the US!
I said nothing about children not receiving their inheritances. Just because I criticized them doesn't mean the government should expropriate their parents wealth. However, we should redefine whether or not we want private corporations mining the land, drilling for oil, or doing anything that can employ the mass of people in private cooperatives.
I remember reading somewhere in the history book about a Catholic priest who used to whip and beat the people of his parish because he thought poverty was a god. curse for their sin. And I never got over that because I think that's been the operating principle for the Caucasian race for 3000 years.
The scarcity of the world is not time nor energy nor money but of mutual solutions. To fight poverty people must give back to sources of solutions (intellectual property), give back to teachers, give back. Money should mean that the holder has provided help and deserve to be helped back. But now people distribute money to people who could help them in the future.
Very good work has been put in this video. Thank you
brilliant ,simplified version of the whole structure of poverty through history ,great viewing thanku for sharing
exceptional documentary! thank u for uploading
The definition of crazy.. "Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result." Humans have not and seems cannot stop the system working the way it is. Since there is (according to this documentary) " no one answer." Then it is clearly something more than what we have come up with so far. This proves that from the start, humans have never been able to solve this age old problem..
Obviously, something more is sorely needed.
I like very much this video. I saw it when I was in Strasbourg in February. The message is very important, but the way You release it is very amazing...
II.[Continue on I.]
In cooperation, everybody wins; while in competition, nobody wins.
In other words in Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (/watch?v=5n1p9P5ee3c&feature=youtu.be&t=1h23s)
"The lack of connection between people causes all the sadness in the world. No question about it."
[I will expected continue on III.]
What diminished poverty in industrialised countries? They couldn't aswer it, but the answer is quite obvious : social systems. People fought for us to have rights, workers have rights to earn a good amout of money for their work, people who don't have a job receive a small amount of money each month. The social system is the only thing that we can rely on to ensure the continuity of our system and our wealth. Technology doesn't matter if only the rich have access to it.
It's really obvious.
The Incas were not a "Latin American" civilization as this civilization was pre-Columbian. The Inca Empire was part of what are referred to as Andean Civilizations. Central and South America were not "latinized " until the arrival of Latin Europeans...
+Kriztofer Plitzkin
I know right? It's like they compare the pre-Columbian population with the actual Latin American population that is much more diverse, with all the immigration from several parts of the world.
Yes, indeed. Inaccurate.
Oh no, this ruins this video for me dang
There's always some idiot triying to lead us out of the real point.
#thanks
In Norway (and probably in other contries too) the national tv-station NRK(Norwegain Broadcasting Channel) have cut out like 6-7 minutes from this episode. One of those cuts is the part from 5:40 - 7:59 .It is mostly done I belive to make it fit TV, and that is understandable, but I cant help but to feel loss of an interesting philosophical point of veiw. NRK is I belive a bit more on the socialistic side so it strikes me as fitting to socialist that a scene that speaks in favour of there beeing poor people to make the world go around is cut. Or it could also be that its just a less important scene..
HC Piano why not cut the bit about the stone age? the stone age is....the stone age, not something we desperately need to analyse.
yes why not indeed ?
NRK took it off from the website, do you have any link or the video dubbed in norwegian? Best Regards
2) Without jobs people won't be able to consume all of the products that the technologies are producing. This is one reason why our current system is self defeating. These are very strong trends. For anyone interested in more info on Technological Unemployment check out the books:
-Lights in the Tunnel by Martin Ford
-The End of Work by Jeremy Rifkin
-Race Against the Machines by Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfson
-Robots will steal your jobs but that's ok by Federico Pistono
How to eradicate poverty:
Production - Trade - Specialization - Capital.
The people talking should feel embarrassed for all having admitted they don't know how economic progress is made. I'd say the only truly intelligent thing said was that behind every form of poverty is the use of force. Absolutely true. Government is force. Get it now?
Arguably poverty has always existed. Virtually all of the world was poor 10,000 year's ago, but as countries (i.e; European, North American, Oceanic, Japan. etc.) became modernized, they became rich, but poorness is not a new thing to the last 300 year's, it's just that wealth is.
Great documentary
Freedom will not end poverty. The simple fact is that the weaker animals acquire fewer resources, there will always be poor people in a fair and just world.
This does not address debt that can never be paid, as it's creation is inherent in the finical system. Why does a program addressing poverty not even allude to this structurally induced impoverization. Why not? Properganda!
very good film!
Thanks for sharing 😃🇨🇴
amazing video, with its own viewpoint.. interesting to think about...hmmmmm.. Thank You very Much for putting this video up!
Like the video love the Jamaican touch to it :}
Good questions. Poverty is a mixture of bad choices, bad luck, bad legacies (family problems) and laziness.
Competition is a natural state of man. Even in Zeitgeist World, there is going to be someone striving to have more than someone else. It's human nature. We repeat our sufferings because we do not study or respect History. Money can be changed/reformed, but yes, we do need some medium of exchange. Zeitgeist is very good at pointing out the problems, but the solutions are no good.
I got an Economics degree in the 70's and still read thick Econ books every year. Economics is "the science of common sense". There's nothing mysterious about the Market, or supply and demand, or even dog eat dog and survival of the fittest. It's the way of the World. If I can hire a hundred men and women for 30 cents an hour, why would I pay them $8 an hour? If I offer a certain wage and nobody accepts I must raise that wage. It IS as simple as it sounds in 99% of the cases...
They'll do anything to keep us pathetic, but it keeps them down too.
Brilliant, i think you covered it. Our problem is the people who willfully follow the unpleasent capitalist wealthy elites, in my opinion!
Like Bucky Fuller said “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” we need to work cooperatively to create a new paradigm!
Thank you :D
its the perception and values we carried on how we look at poverty... poverty repeats its history...
A major problem currently is that you have the monetarist economists who created trickle-down, and form the core of the rich and powerful in the US today, and then the so-called rebellion against it with concepts derived from Austrian economics especially in the US, happen to be so similar. One just wants us to go back to a gold standard while the other loves spending but specifically thru tax-cuts yet both completely agree with deregulation, and that big-government is bad
A colloquial meaning of the word ignorant would be arrogant and rude which would be an accurate description of your behavior.
Counter-Position. Poverty is an ideal. To have this view, you have to be rich. Rich in things you know, rich in those things, that dosent cost anything, food, that comes from your garden, air, health. You may learn to build your house, about perma culture, to have enough food. You will afford Solar panels after a few holdups on tourists, who dare to disturb your peace in the hills. A gun is needed only for the guy, who tries to sell you an insurance.
Amazing!!!
The definition of poverty as been lost, in the UK, people think poverty is when they cannot afford to run a car each, have mobile phones, computers, and a luxury home.
They have no idea what is poverty, that is the trouble with people, they are so selfish and wrapped up in their own little selfish world, they have no ability to deal with reality.
Poverty in today's society, is defined by having children when you are unemployed, with no way of looking at them except to rely on the rest of society, to get yourself in get by living outside of your means, this is all poverty in the modern developed countries.
The fact is poverty in today's society even in Third World countries, is self created by the inability to act intelligently.
Example: I am living in poverty, I am an intelligent life form, therefore I will not be bringing any children into this environment, that's not happening is it, in the most polished countries in the world, you have people or should I say women, having multiple of children, that action shows the inability to be intelligent, they are operating on auto mode like something out of the dark ages.
Even in the modern developed countries you have the same behaviour, women having multiple of children creating poverty, and a running after them giving them money, which of course encourages them even more.
You have a government encouraging people to take credit cards, overdrafts, loans, payday loans, all amount to debt, you have a government encouraging greedy selfish people to get into debt which creates poverty.
You all embrace a system that creates poverty, a system based on endless growth, you have heard the word economic growth, to endlessly expand, you can only run a system of endless growth by maintaining an endless supply of people, and the only way you can do that is to overpopulated to appoint weather will be not be enough resources to support the amount of people.
This system is solely designed for the few at the top, so they can roll in luxury paid for by the many who wallow in poverty, but who's to blame for this, the many who wallow in poverty for the endless greed to endlessly multiply, which creates the environment they moan about.
It is why no government on the planet, will do anything to reduce the number of people, (please don't mention China, that's a joke) for to do so would be to cut off the endless supply of wealth that is going to the few at the top, that's why they pay women to have kids, in the UK they brought in tax credit, and a system where a woman in full-time work, can have the time off work, be paid to have the time off work, have the job kept open, so she can have children, and then dumped the children onto anybody else so she can go back to work.
That is a recipe for disaster, and that's exactly what you've got, you have the full two time workers part-time parents brigade, not looking after their kids, that's what why you have unruly children because children have no discipline in the lives, how can they when their parents are absent from their lives to 10 hours a day, and the person that looking after them couldn't care a toss as long as they are not under their feet.
Then you have the single female in full-time work doing the same thing having kids but not looking after them, she can't, she can't be in two places at the same time.
Then you have the woman unemployed single or with a partner, having multiple of children for money.
You have a government that encourages all this.
Why is the government doing this, it is simple, if a child is not born, then that's a child that cannot grow up, take out a loan, credit cards, by things, cannot contribute directly or indirectly to the few at the top to keep them in there lap of luxury.
You really are a bunch of stupid people, you feed the system you hate and the people you hate who run it.
For you have to be stupid not to understand how the system works, and how you keep it in existence by endlessly multiplying.
You're a piece of shit.
Dude I'm an engineer and entrepreneur, half wealthy people I meet are children of people in finance or mining companies. They are people of inherited wealth and THEY DIDN'T CREATE ANYTHING OF VALUE. What value does a Hedge Fund manager or Investment Banker make by moving money around for the benefit of themselves? Did the Board of Directors for ALCOA or Rio Tinto create the land they're exploiting? Did they create the mines, the diamonds, gold etc? No the people can easily form coops to do this.
-Stivers & Slackers- I'd recommend "Drive" by Dan Pink. 40 years of scientific research into human motivation
-gifted & plain- There is so much research on the affects of our environment on humans. You can specifically look into "The Abecedarian" project that tested why some children were doing better than others in school.
the other issues also seem to be either structural problems or environmental problems not some inherent human condition
Great video!
Poverty is only solved by enpowering a person to independance. One person at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time. Whenever a person break faith with themself - a family break faith with themselves - a community break faith with itself, POVERTY follows.
We have a "winner" folks!!!! Bravo, bravo!!!!! (Applause) Kudos to you. Finally, we have someone who understands the root cause of poverty. Great to see people out there who can think "outside of the box". Could you kindly give your opinion of how poverty can be eliminated/eradicated forever also? I am very interested to hear your idea. Peace;-) to you.
Thanks Ty, yeah its funny how they completely skiped the money system in this film. I just feel when a currency has a store of value it can be corrupted by greed and hoarding (saving) which in turn allows unsavory folk to gain power over us all. But hey what do i know im not an economist lol. take it easy friend. :)
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Poverty is the result of exploitation !
I agree with muelleici in reply to your comment. You are not on the right track, but on the wrong one !! Poverty is not a choice
Poverty is tied to education and the need for the rich to have it around the world.
Differing perspectives on Extreme Poverty. Grist for the Mill.
Something that is rarely discussed is intelligence.Like everything it is a scale of 1-10.When the ability to hunt and stay warm was sufficient,there was little difference between anyone.The world in the modern age is designed by extremely intelligent people for the rest of us to navigate.Everything is so damn intricate and filled with small print that it becomes more and more difficult for even us with average intell. to take it all in.How people with below average manage,I don't know.
May i ask
What are the analogies used to define poverty ?
The documentary would be more interesting, if it also investigated into the militarization of the imperialistic countries, and the drastic exploitation that took place. The two world wars that resulted and the US and Soviet fight for hegemony during the cold war also led to more wars, and the demise of even the economy of the US. If the countries in the world, rich and poor, try to reduce a few percent of their annual military budget, the world will live in greater peace and affluence.
18:12 I would have to greatly doubt that the Emperor of the Incas was some kind of benevolent administrator of his nation's resources and that his people lived the life of Riley.
In any case he didn't crossed the ocean to thieve, enslave or invade anyone else. Get a danm clue moron
@@mcBaronGonzalez No, he just did that to his neighbours instead
We stand for WORLD EQUALITY !
loving this channel, good food for thought
I'm glad you said that. I'll talk about Sweden. Sweden had a robust economy with nonexistent unemployment in the 80s. That changed to chronically high unemployment rates in the 90s as government spending skyrocketed and a punitive tax code was installed with a burdensome welfare state. The Swedes are slowly wising up as they have reformed their welfare state and reduced their spending relative to GDP. As a result their economy has recovered. I wish Obama would talk to some Swedes.
I wonder, does the narrator with his fake "poor voice" really think that 57:00 is going to happen? It's not the rich people who will be looking at pitchforks coming for them. It's the poor people who are going to get gunned down die of starvation.
Maybe not, but without it, getting food to eat becomes increasingly difficult.
The poor aren't becoming poorer. They are staying the same. The rich is coming richer. But, the number of poor people becoming rich is also increasing.
Also, more and more people are redefined as being poor. A poor person today can have a cell phone, cable, and even a dishwasher. Things that rich people could not afford just 60 years ago.
TrulyStupidGaming What is the point of you comments here? This is not commentary, it simply a academic-based history of poverty. You seem to want to define a "relative-poverty" - to what end? The role of the impoverished hasn't changed much in recent history - certainly not in the lifetime of our USA.
My comment is to prevent people from watching this documentary, and then deciding to do something radically different to end poverty, when in reality, we have been making progress in addressing the situation. At our current pace, nobody will die of hunger in the Western world very soon.
The frequency and degree of poverty has shrunk at a steady and impressive rate in the last hundred years. Yes, people are still impoverished, but the life expectancy of a person born in the poorest household versus a person being born in the top 1% is only 10 years. Yes, 10 years is still too much, but if $500 million dollars can only buy you an extra 10 years over someone who is practically at the bottom of the pile, that's not TOO bad. Even some of the poorest people in America can access the daily recommended calories that they need. The poorest of the poor in the Western world has over 150% the life expectancy of the middle-class in many countries.
Poverty in the western world is not the same as it was in the ancient era. To treat it as exactly the same is strange, unless if it were to push particular agendas for radical constitutional change to strip us of human rights.
The government and globalists will try their best to take away our rights, and to gain more power. They will use everything at their disposal to rob us of our liberty, including the proposal to end poverty. This is why it's important to know that, even without radical change, we are already steadily improving, and to throw away our rights for a promise that we are already on our way of achieving, is folly.
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The role of the poor and "relative poverty" simply ignore the fact that living standards have gone up for the people at even the very bottom. We have great inequality, and the poor look up at people with billions of dollars more than they have, but the constant fact is that they are far better off than those poor in ancient times, who had no real elite class over them, but they were so extremely poor that every day was pain and misery or death. Today, our poor have the luxury of lounging around, watching sports, eating pizza, playing video games, then going to a government office for a welfare check. They have the luxury of living in those conditions, and STILL having resentment against some capitalist system which allegedly "impoverished" them. Hogwash! If we simply embrace free market reforms, reject collectivist ideology and colonialism, we have a real chance of eliminating extreme poverty in all corners of the world.
The key is to improve the productivity of labor. Just look at the real world for examples. The average American works no harder than those poor farmers in Africa, yet Americans are paid better and live better. Is this because Capitalism is rigged, picking winners and losers even though the poor Africans work just as hard? No. It's simply a matter of productivity. The American laborer is more productive, he produces more product per day with less work. This puts upward pressure on wages and living standards, as wealthy Capitalists can produce more, and therefore can afford to pay workers better, which automatically means a higher market wage, or at least a higher standard of living the market wage can command.
This is ALL the free market's work. They did not happen because of Lyndon Johnson's or Roosevelt's welfare state ideas. They aren't happening in China because of Mao's Great Leap Forward. Is it any wonder at all why American jobs that produce more goods or more expensive goods happen to pay higher wages that others? It seems to have been proven many times over that when you do well and produce a lot, you climb the ladder of progress.
It's a misunderstanding of the American Dream to think that America means you are guaranteed high wages if you work hard, or work long enough. In fact, it means the freedom to raise your wages through hard work, if you become a better worker or become more productive. Nowhere did I see this misconception the worst as when I saw this poor woman with several children who had worked at McDonald's for tens of years and was angry because her wages had not gone up in YEARS. What angered me was her conception that she was entitled to wage increases and improving living standard for working the SAME JOB and making NO EFFORT to climb the ladder. It's sad that she had made it to a point where she was getting older, had kids to take care of, and she worked at a fast food restaurant, but she had brought herself to that point with her poor decisions and poor understanding or how the world works. At which point she felt entitled to a better outcome for her poor decision. And we all know exactly what she, and many liker her, wants. They want money expropriated from the successful to subsidize their bad choices. They have the bizarre idea THAT is how you ultimately fix the problem and make the conditions of the poor better. That woman, and others like her, fail to understand HOW WAGES RISE.
The failure to understand how wages rise, and the idea that there is some quick government-sponsored "get rich quick" scheme that will cure poverty simply by stealing from the successful, and giving to the unsuccessful, and adding another layer of bureaucracy by which to do fulfill that purpose... But given the history of poverty, and how we got to where we are, isn't it counter-intuitive to shift to a collectivist idea of "expropriating the expropriators" even where no clear evidence of market expropriation exists, and to decrease our reliance on the system that gave us abundant steel and plastic, cheap, quickly prepared burgers, increasingly powerful and efficient automobiles and computers, and increasingly abundant farm produce? Many in America only look poor to us today, because we forget the extreme poverty of those before them. Don't worry. I'm not saying we should do nothing to address the poverty that exists, but we know, or at least we should know, that free markets, less state interference, and less welfare are the key to close this poverty gap. We should not "give a man a fish" with welfare and minimum wages, but instead "teach a man to fish" with free markets, so we may not "feed him for a day" as he slips further into poverty, but "feed him for a lifetime" with life skills, human capital, and constantly improving technology to make his life easier and his labor more productive.
@@louse3584 i know this was three years ago but damn, you wrote a whole article. Thanks for giving me my homework answer tho.
@@ngndnd I had almost forgotten about it. It seems at times a frivolous pursuit to comment on TH-cam videos because nobody is likely to see or respond to what I write. I just do it for fun when I have a point to make. It’s funny to me when people dig up my old comments. I hope your homework goes well. More importantly, I hope that your intellectual development is aided and that you arrive in a more enlightened place. I wish you an abundance of peace and good fortune.
Edit: This was part of a school assignment for me also.
interesting stuff, 'the millionaire nextdoor'. But it doesn't really justifies the rich/poor divide, it criticizes consumerism (and rightly so). If anything, it strengthens the belief that there is possibly enough wealth for everybody nowadays. The key is education. Making good financial decisions requires insight and knowledge. The literacy rate is higher than ever and making the assumption that people are stupid and can't ever change is never going to help the majority, only the few.
Worth watching and learning on human history...
it's true, i have to be more especific. A state which can grow its size when it needs more money, will not push itself to be more responsable, accountable and disciplined.
7:08 Poverty is not what makes the rich rich. The speaker is subscribing to the myth that the economy is a zero sum game where when one man makes a dollar, another loses a dollar. That is simply not the case.
1. Poverty, the poor and homeless are there to show the middle class that you have to work hard and accepted whatever is offered, otherwise, you will join them. The rich are there to give you an illusion that if you work hard, you could be one of them someday.
2. Poverty creates cheap labors. They would compete with working middle class to bring down the wages.
3. Equal wealth or income is not good. We want fair wealth distribution based on contribution. But whenever people advocate for that, the rich will twist it to equalize wealth or communism. Classic simple strategy but works very well.
Every society needs to do two things : create wealth (economy) and reallocate it (government). The ZM is a failure because it completely rejects the need for the first and the restrictions by the second and in that way is similar to communism. The extreme libertarian agenda however, the one that is usually met in US, has no respect for the second part of the equation. The problem of poverty and inequality however are so complicated that require long,painfull scientific approach, not ideologies
Great work
It's easy to figure out what's eradicating poverty, just look at the countries that have already done it. Equality, welfare and social security is what is needed, not just growth. That's why there are almost no poor in Scandinavian countries while there are millions of poor in the US and UK. The former nourish equality and social security, the latter just focus on growth.
I really enjoyed this documentary, but there is one problem I had with it.
They did a well enough job of explaining the history of poverty, as well as some circumstances that lead to it's reduction, but they never elaborated what could be done to eliminate poverty entirely. Many critiques, but no alternatives.
They hinted at increasing welfare, redistributing wealth, and advocating a mixed-economy, but the proven usefulness of these concepts is dubious at best.
So really, why poverty?
Well done, but a little too red for me. There will ALWAYS be poverty. It's a fact of life. We can get it down to a manageable level, but it will always be with us.