Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash | Rutger Bregman

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6 жыл бұрын

"Ideas can and do change the world," says historian Rutger Bregman, sharing his case for a provocative one: guaranteed basic income. Learn more about the idea's 500-year history and a forgotten modern experiment where it actually worked -- and imagine how much energy and talent we would unleash if we got rid of poverty once and for all.
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@jupiterjaeden9163
@jupiterjaeden9163 4 жыл бұрын
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” - Dom Helder Camara
@josephramirez4877
@josephramirez4877 4 жыл бұрын
When enough people ask this question the smears will be irrelevant. Some think ending poverty is impossible without ruining the economy. And yet spending on endless wars or huge tax breaks for the rich, or a huge wasteful bureaucracy, never causes fear to strike about our economy by the people in power.
@jupiterjaeden9163
@jupiterjaeden9163 4 жыл бұрын
Did you even watch the video? Your ignorance is astounding.
@jupiterjaeden9163
@jupiterjaeden9163 4 жыл бұрын
I am a socialist lmao
@jonathanhurst980
@jonathanhurst980 4 жыл бұрын
@@taliesinhalliday once you realise that if you lived someone else's live had everything exactly the same as they did parents friends external influences etc you would become the same that they are now, then you realise that you cannot judge for no reason we are but reprocussions of our own circumstances and nothing else. just think if the bullies didnt put you down and I'm gonna guess mother boosted you with a level of self confidence underneath (sorry for probably bad assumption) you probably would be stuck in the same poor place
@virtusoroca7724
@virtusoroca7724 4 жыл бұрын
@@taliesinhalliday Lets teach people how to farm. Yet, they need land. Why they dont have it? Ask that question and be acused of communism. I make that question. Dont you?
@iceadonis6340
@iceadonis6340 5 жыл бұрын
I remember someone telling me," my brother told me years ago, if you're hungry, read a book, so at least your mind is full". I said, "have you or your bother ever been hungry?" He said, "no". People who don't know poverty are out of touch!
@iceadonis6340
@iceadonis6340 5 жыл бұрын
@@elijahwartgow6672 out of touch, you're making up connections/illusions to justify your inhumane attitude. It's so easy to blame the poor and powerless for their misery, and offer stupid advise from a distance.
@dannyaikin1395
@dannyaikin1395 5 жыл бұрын
Being too hungry to read, is very, very, very hungry......Many live at that address due to outside-circumstances that are out of their control; Not laziness, ignorance, or criminality.
@grantjohnson5785
@grantjohnson5785 5 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile, those of us that HAVE known poverty, and hunger, and homelessness, but have worked themselves out of it know that books are what sustained us through the hard times. Despite not knowing poverty, your brother is 100% right. Active-duty soldiers know: when you can't get sleep, eat. When you can't eat, sleep. When you can't do either, do something to take your mind off of being hungry and tired, because dwelling on it doesn't help. Assuming it's true that adults in poverty "cannot control" their lives... KIDS in poverty have complete control over at least 12.5% of it - specifically, the 6+ hours a day they spend during school, 180 days a year. During that time frame, they have complete and utter control of their actions. They can *choose* to get whatever they can from their free education, or they can *choose* to do nothing with it. And they get free lunches, too, so the hunger is at least somewhat addressed.
@iceadonis6340
@iceadonis6340 5 жыл бұрын
@@grantjohnson5785 typical stupid answer, from stupid...you don't deserved a response other than "stupid".
@dannyaikin1395
@dannyaikin1395 5 жыл бұрын
@@grantjohnson5785 Agreed, excepting: ....'complete and utter control of their actions'......Potentially only, because in many, many cases; that's not literally so, and that creates and/or leaves a vacuum which is the 'when-n-how' criminals (cons, drug dealers, pimps, pedophiles etc.), step in and take over; Where the healthy adults fell short.
@MalenkyGoblin
@MalenkyGoblin 4 жыл бұрын
COVID-19 has made these ideas more relevant than ever.
@jordonpohl7393
@jordonpohl7393 3 жыл бұрын
For president?
@jordonpohl7393
@jordonpohl7393 3 жыл бұрын
🤣 sorry i wasn’t meaning to respond but instead just comment on the video haha ... definitely not covid, ... I’m here collecting my CERB too. Covid is highlighting a lot of systemic societal issues and helping push for change here it seems. Some good from it at least :S
@jordonpohl7393
@jordonpohl7393 3 жыл бұрын
Janice Brown yup 👍 thanks you too! Stay safe and keep informing others the importance of covid protections!
@nerdnairbnordnirbu9044
@nerdnairbnordnirbu9044 3 жыл бұрын
@Snappingturtle 267 what about all the companies that aren't allowed to be open? How are they supposed to have money if there aren't enough jobs? And that isn't how it works we will easily be able to pay off the debt. Go watch a video on national debt. Unless government spending goes up then that little bit of debt to help the unemployed during covid is fine.
@nerdnairbnordnirbu9044
@nerdnairbnordnirbu9044 3 жыл бұрын
@Snappingturtle 267 the only thing that could happen is inflation. Which is just basically a tax on savings the economy will be fine just the value of a currency decreases. You are really uneducated. If it weren't for welfare people would starve to death.
@mikei6605
@mikei6605 3 жыл бұрын
"They're not rich because they're nice, they're nice because they're rich."
@saifuddinmakati843
@saifuddinmakati843 3 жыл бұрын
Parasite is one heck of a movie
@neo-babylon7872
@neo-babylon7872 3 жыл бұрын
Not sure how true that is. It's kind of generalizing especially since some of the nicest people I met were poor while some of the top jerks were rich. Also being nice is relative. A poor person helping you with gas on the road is contributing a much greater percentage of their wealth so they should be much nicer than the rich. I think a better measure would be effectiveness and recognition. The rich get more recognition and effectiveness for their actions (Kind/Evil); therefore, people attribute it more commonly to them being kind/evil.
@Hayanomie
@Hayanomie 3 жыл бұрын
@@neo-babylon7872 I took it as meaning that it's easier to be nice when ur not hungry
@deadheadliving
@deadheadliving 3 жыл бұрын
I guess being Nice and Rich dont usually go hand in hand but then it's easier to be nice if you are rich.thing is from my experience I find Nice ppl don't get Rich cos most of the time they give half of what they have whilst the more selfish counter-part stock up solely for themselves eventually making them rich which leads me to think Rich people could only be that nice if their goals are to get richer.that being said Riches could be anything other than monetary wealth and posession.
@mikei6605
@mikei6605 3 жыл бұрын
@@deadheadliving exactly, people use selfishness to get rich and then are able to act all nice after the fact. Niceness doesn't get you filthy rich.
@RspbyLmn
@RspbyLmn 5 жыл бұрын
If you are not guaranteed surviving today, then planning for tomorrow is irrelevant.
@laurasutherland2352
@laurasutherland2352 5 жыл бұрын
absofuckinglutely
@grantjohnson5785
@grantjohnson5785 5 жыл бұрын
No one is guaranteed to survive today... so by your argument, no one should plan for tomorrow. Idiotic. You may or may not survive, if you do not plan as though you will survive, you will never get anywhere in life.
@punkyagogo
@punkyagogo 5 жыл бұрын
Grant Johnson Like it or not, that is the kind of mindset poverty forces on to people, because in their case, tomorrow really isn’t promised to them. They’re at a significantly higher risk for being victims of crime and illness compared to the general population.
@grantjohnson5785
@grantjohnson5785 5 жыл бұрын
@@punkyagogo The mindset of "tomorrow isn't promised" should be followed by everyone, regardless of poverty or wealth, and regardless of risk factors, because it is true for everyone. That said, let's compare some numbers. Risk of poor person dying tomorrow: 99.9% I'm not saying there aren't other factors in poverty... but failing to plan for tomorrow is a BIG one, and it is one that is entirely within one's own control.
@damianrhea8875
@damianrhea8875 5 жыл бұрын
"Poverty annihilates the future." - George Orwell
@Mrbeat-88
@Mrbeat-88 6 жыл бұрын
Maslow had it right. You cannot get to higher needs until you have the basic ones covered.
@Aar0nMD
@Aar0nMD 5 жыл бұрын
Then how do you explain self actualized starving artists?
@DaveWard-xc7vd
@DaveWard-xc7vd 5 жыл бұрын
Have a plan if you plan to have.
@DaveWard-xc7vd
@DaveWard-xc7vd 5 жыл бұрын
You can not appreciate achievement unless you experience it for yourself. Having it handed to you isnt the same.
@rjfaber1991
@rjfaber1991 5 жыл бұрын
+Furrowed Brow - True, meaningful, monetary achievements in life are for the few; most people will never get there, no matter how hard they try. A lot of this is down to nothing more than luck, and letting your society be divided into the lucky and the unlucky is not a way to create society-wide happiness.
@DaveWard-xc7vd
@DaveWard-xc7vd 5 жыл бұрын
@@rjfaber1991 I would add genetics.
@jordannixon7409
@jordannixon7409 3 жыл бұрын
As someone who grew up with parents who lived exclusively on minimum wage and had substantial debt all throughout my time in education I can tell you first hand that poverty isn't a character flaw but it creates them.
@saaamm6925
@saaamm6925 Жыл бұрын
It’s been proven over and over that homelessness and poverty create not only more debt, but mental health issues that get worse over the years.
@lisawoody1708
@lisawoody1708 Жыл бұрын
I'm calling B.S. on this one. Adversity doesn't make us what we are; it exposes us for what we are. Making minimum wage for more than a few years shows a lack of ambition or reliability. College can be done without incurring debt. Or it can be skipped altogether, which I did. I grew up in the foster care system, then was reunited with my birth mother and spent my later teen years in poverty. I couldn't afford college. Yet through hard work and hustle (and not complaining), I became a national magazine editor, a Director at a consulting firm, a corporate communications manager for a national health & beauty brand, and an entrepreneur and business owner. With a high school diploma. I now have mover a million dollars in net worth and it's because of hard work, good decisions, financial restraint, and being an employee who's dependable and teachable. And I know other people with similar stories. Whining keeps people in poverty.
@gingerpickett6958
@gingerpickett6958 Жыл бұрын
@@lisawoody1708 That’s a great story, but it’s not the complete picture. Every one of us is affected by circumstances that are beyond our control. Every time someone hired you, that choice was up to them. You did the best you could, worked hard, but at the end of the day the decision of whether or not you got the job was not yours to make. Success stories show that success through hard work can be possible, but they are not proof that it always is. For that we need statistics, so what percent of people who work hard actually get out of poverty? Or we could take a different approach and ask, How many paths out of poverty are there, and how many people who need to take those paths? Because if there are fewer paths than people, then it is impossible to get everyone out of poverty without taking a different approach from hard work. I respect you and your story, but anecdotal evidence is not enough to say that “whining keeps people in poverty.”
@liberalbias4462
@liberalbias4462 10 ай бұрын
​@@Anonbinarymousefalse. The benefits rarely include anything but food. You still have to pay rent and car. The government should subsides these things.
@infernoglass_
@infernoglass_ 8 ай бұрын
​@@lisawoody1708sorry anecdotal evidence guy but your opinion sadly has to be dismissed due to severe personal bias :(
@yexiwang9465
@yexiwang9465 2 жыл бұрын
I literally cried listening to the speech because I have seen extreme poverty. My high school classmate was so poor (she never even had a clean blanket in winter and never enough money to buy lunch at school) and she acted so differently from us middle-income kids. At that time I and my friends didn't understand at all so we stayed away from her. However, my parents, who have also lived like that in their early years, felt so sorry for her that they asked me to give her some food, school supplies and clothes, of course, in secret. They told me"Please be nice and kind to her. She will appreciate it. You have never been in that situation so you won't understand that struggle." I did as told. Now looking back I should've been nicer. Just a small act of kindness can help. The latter part of the speech hurt me too as I feel I'm pursuing a degree that I don't like at all because I have to earn a living. As I grow I begin to understand how important money is, and how difficult and challenging it is to be who you want to be when the financial situation drags you down.
@mohitnagpal
@mohitnagpal Жыл бұрын
That weird kid was me and probably still the same. I don't know. The cloud of poverty covered my head since I was born and it takes insane amount of energy to get a glimpse of the sunshine of reality around me.
@Pseudonym-No3
@Pseudonym-No3 6 ай бұрын
That degree will probably still be useful - being poor will not make it easier for you to live a good life. But I feel you, I’ve been in a similar situation. And I learned: Your degree doesn’t need to stop you from further developing in the direction you believe to be right. And you watching this TED talk and taking the time to write that comment seem like good signs to me :)
@zlatanonkovic2424
@zlatanonkovic2424 5 жыл бұрын
In Austria, we actually had a de-facto basic income for many years and we have an unemployment rate of 4.8% and are one of the richest countries in the EU. In fact, it enabled me to go from callcenter agent to data scientist in just a few years. Without it, I would probably still work in a callcenter.
@hopemartushev7536
@hopemartushev7536 5 жыл бұрын
Kevin Unknown if you dropped out of college, that was your choice. The government didn’t force you to do that. I have absolutely no help from parents but because of grants and scholarships I’m able to go to college and work part time and get good grades. I’m sorry but the path you chose is your doing, not the government. Try watching some Jordan Peterson videos on responsibility.
@hopemartushev7536
@hopemartushev7536 5 жыл бұрын
Kevin Unknown I am constantly reading and researching about many different view points, not just Jordan Peterson. Why do you think I watched this video? The difference is that Jordan Peterson’s philosophy seems to a lot closer to reality than many others’ philosophy. I’m not saying that we have to have the same life situation for me to help you, or to assume you haven’t had struggles. I’m just giving you power by saying the results lie in the individual. Things happen to everyone. Luckily in America, it’s how we respond to those things that determines our future. This isn’t a new concept, it’s how our world has been since the beginning. Yes there are those who don’t have the same opportunities. But in most cases those can be overcome at least to some degree and yes, that is up to the individual.
@alexandremartins7103
@alexandremartins7103 5 жыл бұрын
@@hopemartushev7536, not always "it's only your fault/choice blahblah". If you fought and succeeded, good for you. Others may need some help from the state, for example and this is not a shame. Rather, people in need must be financially helped.
@Max0r847
@Max0r847 5 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, nothing like Jordan Peterson being called upon as the ultimate Pokemon of maintaining the status quo for the rich. Shame the disadvantaged. Tell them to clean their rooms. After all, with problems such as looming cataclysms and the need to safely travel and colonize outer space, we should ignore things like using technological advancements to uplift all of humanity, and instead glorify the individual struggle just to maintain basic solvency, while the richest get exponentially richer, and yet seem to have little concern for investing in the species' long term survival. A Star Trek future cannot happen when 95% of us can think of nothing but trying to get by, while the rich and tryhard upper middle class wizz around us in their luxury cars looking for more status
@g0679
@g0679 5 жыл бұрын
Zlatan Onkovic Love Austria. Best Wishes from Hogtown, Florida.
@Hayanomie
@Hayanomie 5 жыл бұрын
"it's a cruel jest to tell a bootless man that he oughta lift himself by his own boot straps." MLK.
@almostskater3210
@almostskater3210 4 жыл бұрын
@Snappingturtle 267 Ya that is how success works. Nobody is becoming successful from welfare. But welfare does give people a base on which they can work to become successful.
@callofthewild9175
@callofthewild9175 4 жыл бұрын
@Snappingturtle 267 Actually our country is built on exploitation. CEOs making over 300% of their employees' salary are being handed money for literally nothing. The people that actually generate profit see none of it. We get our hourly or salary, and all the profits go to the top. If that's not a handout, I don't know what is.
@GodsAlto
@GodsAlto 4 жыл бұрын
@Snappingturtle 267 our country was built on a lot of different backs who for centuries were not aloud to participate in its abundance. Can you say, "trying to catch up?"
@GodsAlto
@GodsAlto 4 жыл бұрын
@Snappingturtle 267 slavery, Jim Crow, red lining, inflated loans, etc. There are a lot of things that aren't known to a lot of people when it comes down to it.
@GodsAlto
@GodsAlto 4 жыл бұрын
@Snappingturtle 267 I have not called myself anything to you. You sound very angry. Are you okay?
@KarlUrbahn
@KarlUrbahn 3 жыл бұрын
Even the ultra-successful Arnold Schwarzenegger tells people not to call him a selfmade man. He would never have become a superstar without lots of support from people around him.
@michaelblower7363
@michaelblower7363 3 жыл бұрын
Indeed, nobody can become successful without help from others. ^_^ You can work very hard for a promotion at work, but it's still down to your employer to give it to you. Kinda makes the term "hard work" very subjective when you think about it.
@purefatdude2
@purefatdude2 3 жыл бұрын
Mark Zuckerberg said the same thing. And then he followed it by "we should explore ideas like Universal Basic Income so everyone has a cushion to land on."
@gabedutton5898
@gabedutton5898 3 жыл бұрын
@@michaelblower7363 very true. although imo that is what life is. we've all heard the phrase "life's not fair". The thing that differentiates america from other countries is that no matter how unfair life gets, it is always possible to prevail. Even if your boss declines your raise, you can pursue other jobs. I'm not saying its easy, but I do not like when people downplay the blessing of living in America.
@Pretermit_Sound
@Pretermit_Sound 3 жыл бұрын
Gabe Dutton I agree with you in spirit, it is technically possible for someone to lift themselves up from a low position. However, it not always as simple as a lack of initiative that so many people are stuck in poverty. Even if every single poor person were to suddenly get super motivated and adopt a “do-whatever-it-takes” attitude in order to succeed, there are simply not enough opportunities like that to accommodate everyone. I’m not saying there aren’t lazy people out there. There absolutely are. Always has been, always will be, but that’s not the case for the majority of them. We should at least explore different ideas like a basic universal income. What could it hurt? If it doesn’t work, then we can try something else.
@gabedutton5898
@gabedutton5898 3 жыл бұрын
@@Pretermit_Sound well i certainly think you are the most convincing person i've spoken with on this topic, and i think you make an interesting point from a statistical basis. You may very well be correct that there simply is not enough opportunities to accommodate everyone. I still would guess that even in the direst circumstances there is a glimmer of hope. In regard to ubi, I'm investing in gold so not too worried ab inflation lol
@hanaadil8924
@hanaadil8924 3 жыл бұрын
Who else is here after he grilled tucker carlson
@peterdyreng2155
@peterdyreng2155 3 жыл бұрын
Link?
@hanaadil8924
@hanaadil8924 3 жыл бұрын
@@peterdyreng2155 kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJDRd3xoj8dqp6c
@catc2552
@catc2552 3 жыл бұрын
That is exactly why I'm here. He sure made Carlson look like a fool!
@totallynotme6720
@totallynotme6720 3 жыл бұрын
@Snappingturtle 267 Hmmm, strange, it seems like his country of the Netherlands is doing fine. Nah, must be fake news.
@NKDpiano
@NKDpiano 3 жыл бұрын
@Snappingturtle 267 Cut back on the "LOL", try to be more formal when arguing and maybe then, people would regard your opinion. It's called being a "decent human being".
@Meridian83West
@Meridian83West 4 жыл бұрын
Because the notion of living in poverty is frightening, there are people who find comfort in believing that poverty is a character problem. They hear stories about the poor in the news or read stories about them in the paper or online and instead of thinking, “There but for the grace of God…”, they think to themselves, “This will never happen to me because I’ve done all the right things.” It’s a mindset similar to the Pharisee in the 18th chapter of Luke when he prayed. Such a belief also supports the idea that the world is just (i.e., that whatever one gets in life is what they deserve), which many want to believe when in fact it really isn’t.
@Meridian83West
@Meridian83West 4 жыл бұрын
@Snappingturtle 267 Read my comment again. I never said that it doesn't take hard work to succeed. My point was that many people get a false sense of security in believing that anyone who lives in poverty is dysfunctional and that it's complacent to believe that poverty doesn't befall good people. I've seen far too many decent, honest, hard working people who through no fault of their own are barely getting by.
@JRAinKY
@JRAinKY 4 жыл бұрын
Snappingturtle 267 And the widow who put her last two pennies into the offering, what did she sow to reap such poverty? Have you not read any of the many scriptures that talk about God’s love and compassion for the poor and how much He hates those who abuse them? If their poverty is due solely to their own flaws or bad decisions, why does He care for them so much and provide so many warnings not to mistreat them? Do you really believe that every impoverished person is so because they did something to deserve it? Does it make you feel better about yourself to believe you are not in poverty because you must’ve done something right?
@asiamatron
@asiamatron 4 жыл бұрын
@@Meridian83West Well said. In real life poverty also affects good people.
@kennethflores93
@kennethflores93 4 жыл бұрын
The story of job where he was made penniless through attacks of the devil shows that poverty is not always from a lack of a hardworking and resourceful spirit. It is important for parents to instruct their children on wise living which will be effective in every facet and bring happiness for by wisdom this world was created.
@NiceGuy678
@NiceGuy678 4 жыл бұрын
Snappingturtle 267 why should your opinion be given credence? Because you’re snapping turtle? You have lots of experience running businesses? Academics study data. He’s telling you what conclusions we can gather from data, not how to run a business.
@dadadaddyoo
@dadadaddyoo 5 жыл бұрын
I worked with poor people in America for years and I can tell you they aren't lazy. They're either people who for mental or physical reasons can't work or find work that pays a living wage or they are capable people who grow up in such kaos and constant want that the belief that they can better themselves has been beaten out of them. This is something that is hard for middle and upper class people to understand because it is a such a different way of experiencing the world. Growing up middle-class I was told I was supposed to be smart and I never gave a thought about where my next meal was coming from. Poor kids don't have this kind of support and security.
@gabyjuen
@gabyjuen 5 жыл бұрын
Amen.
@sertaoexpedicoes
@sertaoexpedicoes 5 жыл бұрын
So true!
@zaibian7
@zaibian7 5 жыл бұрын
@madcheeseknight "make their lives better" With what? Why should we help the children, because they're cute and the homeless alcoholic is smelly, ugly and old. The poor outnumber the rich, when the poor realize this you get revolutions. People who believe it's the job of the poor to make their lives better forget that it usually involves the rich being the first lined up against the wall and shot in large numbers. And their supporters end up fighting on the losing side of a civil war, lose everything and become the next generation of poor. And the whole process starts all over again. It's happened in the US twice. It's happened in Europe dozens of times. It's happened in China hundreds of times. Poverty and oppression created the USSR, it also destroyed it. Inequality = Instability. You're basically saying it's not your job to put out the fire that is about to burn your house down.
@xxxmmm3812
@xxxmmm3812 5 жыл бұрын
exactly! people dont understand this and never will and it shocks me.being wealthy doesnt come only from hard work and being poor doesnt come from being lazy
@elenachristian9860
@elenachristian9860 5 жыл бұрын
I would only disagree that it is "hard to understand." It is quite easy to understand, but many people willfully choose to remain ignorant.
@robertmoore6149
@robertmoore6149 3 жыл бұрын
"Lack of character" is the same old trope that has been used by the wealthy (and those that share their immortality) about everyone else since time began. Far past time that idea was buried.
@mistakencrown4858
@mistakencrown4858 3 жыл бұрын
It gives them a false sense of control over their own fate.
@robertmoore6149
@robertmoore6149 3 жыл бұрын
@voice of reason Intelligence is not linked to crime. Plenty of wealthy and smart people commit crime. From OJ, Burnie Madoff and Martha Stewart, the list is endless. Yes there is an indirect link between intelligence and income based on education.
@AmazingStoryDewd
@AmazingStoryDewd 2 жыл бұрын
@@mistakencrown4858 You do have a certain amount of control. Only fools don't accept this. My grandparents grew up in a poor farming family in a third world country. Now they and their children are well of business owners, artists, doctors etc.
@AmazingStoryDewd
@AmazingStoryDewd 2 жыл бұрын
Why because it's uncomfortable that it happens to be true sometimes?
@robertmoore6149
@robertmoore6149 2 жыл бұрын
@@AmazingStoryDewd There's a reason why some stories, situation, personalities, etc are called "extraordinary", because they literally are extra ordinary. Meaning not the norm. Thus are not a valid benchmark.
@ryanreed7688
@ryanreed7688 3 жыл бұрын
Ask anyone who has lived on both sides of the poverty line and they can tell you exactly this. That first year of not having to worry about money every minute of every day is like getting back that carefree feeling of childhood. It's a 16 ton weight lifted off of your chest. And you'll do anything at that point to make sure no one you care about has to suffer the same way.
@melissinha73
@melissinha73 5 жыл бұрын
We all claim to love Martin Luther King Jr as THE Civil Rights Leader, but we need to remember his last movement was about eradicating poverty. He got it. He sought to unite poor people regardless of race and the middle class. Thank you Mr Bregman for waking up the world with pragmatism, critical thinking and hope.
@RockinCowgirl1000
@RockinCowgirl1000 5 жыл бұрын
And that's what got him killed, not his work fighting racial discrimination.
@TheSuzberry
@TheSuzberry 5 жыл бұрын
He was a villain to white people until he became a martyr.
@heyyall9378
@heyyall9378 5 жыл бұрын
The Poor People's Campaign has been revived. You should Google search it, or better yet followers them on Facebook. They are traveling around, peacefully protesting, and talking to city and state governments about eradicating poverty.
@kailashpatel1706
@kailashpatel1706 4 жыл бұрын
“It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”Martin Luther King..
@ChristiantrospectiveGamer
@ChristiantrospectiveGamer 4 жыл бұрын
The Democratic party is working toward this same thing...by making us all poor, we will be united in poverty!
@haipengli4769
@haipengli4769 5 жыл бұрын
Survival stress just takes up so much computation resources, which results in bad decisions. Period.
@817880
@817880 4 жыл бұрын
Good parenting is FAR more important.
@Nicole-ww4lg
@Nicole-ww4lg 4 жыл бұрын
Constant stress (survival stress) also negatively impacts physical and mental health which results in bad decisions
@Nicole-ww4lg
@Nicole-ww4lg 4 жыл бұрын
@@817880 I had good parents and I still have to juggle three jobs to keep a roof over my head and food in my belly. My good parents have had little impact on my current economic situation.
@jmitterii2
@jmitterii2 4 жыл бұрын
@@817880 If the parents are poor, or you regional economic circumstances stink, parenting matters very little. All parenting can do is assist the offspring in not making otherwise worse decisions. Parenting economically is nearly dubious in outcome. Abe Lincoln grew up poor with an abusive father. He was fortunate there was need for lawyers and lawyers that worked for rail roads got paid extraordinarily well. He was elected the 16th US president. Parenting is almost dubious.
@geraltrivia951
@geraltrivia951 4 жыл бұрын
When you're hungry, you steal. When you're hopeless and you live in a society that tells you you need stuff, you want to steal. When you don't do either, and the frustration of doing what you are told is "living the right way" you get angry, and possibly violent. Ugh, you can't win impoverished.
@nicktrice4921
@nicktrice4921 4 жыл бұрын
I'm glad this good man's voice has a platform. Sadly, we live in a world where idealistic do-gooders are mocked, rejected, and thwarted by the many who have succumbed to cynicism, and the power elite who encourage and harness this mass apathy. Being a Good Samaritan doesn't make you stupid or naive or weak. It makes you brave. Nevertheless, until there is a sea change in humanity's mass consciousness, the "business as usual" approach of mankind and the resulting downward spiral of economic and political vicious cycles seem to be locked in.
@autohmae
@autohmae 3 жыл бұрын
What are you talking about ? There are lots of countries around the world that have very little poverty. In the US it's 2% who were in poverty in 2015, in the UK it's 0.7%, in the Netherlands it's: 0.5%, Germany it's: 0.2% and in Switserland it: 0.0%. It's a policy decision.
@floradiamonds
@floradiamonds 3 жыл бұрын
@@autohmae Child poverty in the UK continues to rise. It's real and it's terrible.
@michaelblower7363
@michaelblower7363 3 жыл бұрын
@@autohmae Also the UK Conservatives tend to have a habit of changing the definition of poverty to make statistics seem less bad. :-(
@Natalia-pc7fm
@Natalia-pc7fm 3 жыл бұрын
So true!
@MrSinister718
@MrSinister718 2 жыл бұрын
If someone uses a small Canadian town full of white people, and tries to use their results as a example of how giving away free stuff works for the people of Africa or even an inner city like Detroit, they ARE STUPID and NAIVE. Every inner city in this country has cheap public housing and free food EBT cards for the poor. This man is an idiot, and a LIAR! You don't talk about IQ and they try to find the highest IQ poor people you can find, and then ignore the "elephant" in the room, and pretend minorities aren't poor because of their scientific backed LOWER IQs. I swear. The people praising this guy are just as stupid and naive as him. Go do some good, donate all your money and possessions, and go live in public houses and see how it REALLY is. Try not to die from a hate crime at the hands of the "poor"
@failedindonesianpainter6539
@failedindonesianpainter6539 3 жыл бұрын
Poor people always make poor decision because they only have poor option
@michaelblower7363
@michaelblower7363 3 жыл бұрын
Exactly, they're to worried about how they're going to get by each day.
@pemuda7075
@pemuda7075 3 жыл бұрын
a very good point
@pisicafairy4606
@pisicafairy4606 3 жыл бұрын
your name bro lol he died in Garut didn't he
@lawrencemiyoba4638
@lawrencemiyoba4638 3 жыл бұрын
You didn't make good choices you had good choices...
@angelsantos7033
@angelsantos7033 3 жыл бұрын
limited option = scarce mentality
@magnusnordstrom3927
@magnusnordstrom3927 5 жыл бұрын
Damn, this TED Talk needs about 7,5 billion individual views.
@kaufmanat1
@kaufmanat1 5 жыл бұрын
Unfrotunately you need a computer, internet access, and electricity to view this video... Counts out about half the world.
@rikvanderbruggen988
@rikvanderbruggen988 5 жыл бұрын
if you want the whole world to become comunist ....
@magnusnordstrom3927
@magnusnordstrom3927 5 жыл бұрын
@@rikvanderbruggen988 Hmm, yes, maybe we don't want that. Would solve way too many problems. And then what? No one knows.
@jairoagudelo6843
@jairoagudelo6843 4 жыл бұрын
@@rikvanderbruggen988 communist???? You kidding right....i hope u know whats communism....lol
@rikvanderbruggen988
@rikvanderbruggen988 4 жыл бұрын
@@jairoagudelo6843 yeah i do and this aint pure communism i know, but it has a lot of its characteristics
@toriphillips7045
@toriphillips7045 4 жыл бұрын
In the words of Jess Streib of Duke University, "We need to realize a lot of people work hard and don't get ahead, and a lot of people don't work hard and are still ahead."
@maxanthony7539
@maxanthony7539 3 жыл бұрын
@Joost Broek did you watch the video your commenting under?
@revolutionunderground
@revolutionunderground Жыл бұрын
YES!
@veronicachristopher9321
@veronicachristopher9321 4 жыл бұрын
I'm poor. People close to me make fun of me. I'm a "loser"& every argument turns to "at least I work". I. Work. Too! I just get paid very little. But I LOVE WHAT I DO! As a kid, before I knew how money ran the world, I dreamed of my books on shelves. Even now, as a grown woman, I still carry my notepad and pencil everywhere I go. Now my book is on shelves. After decades of dreaming, I learned it's goosebumps that rule MY world not dollars. So if others diss my beater car or my thrifty habits, or my goals to build my own raggedy cabin in the woods with free plank wood, that says more about their character than mine ✨ ❤ 👏 🙌📖 🖊 🌳 #dreambig #sparklebright #fuckthehaters #excusemykorean
@4rmAshes
@4rmAshes 3 жыл бұрын
I want to do what you do @veronica christopher
@Pretermit_Sound
@Pretermit_Sound 3 жыл бұрын
It has always astonished me how narrow minded people can be in regards to what they define as “success” or a “happy life”. Happiness is a state of mind, it is not dictated by your possessions. Keep on living your dream 🤗
@stromboli183
@stromboli183 3 жыл бұрын
Well said. However I dare say, you're not poor. You're richer than most people (including the ones who have more money). People who make fun of other people because they own less - they are truly poor. Regardless of how much money they have.
@therealb888
@therealb888 3 жыл бұрын
@Joost Broek sure as long as they get free food and shelter lul
@MfsUnitedAgainstMe
@MfsUnitedAgainstMe 2 жыл бұрын
@S M indeed bro.
@storytellingphotographer
@storytellingphotographer 3 жыл бұрын
One word - brilliant! I hope enough people in power with good hearts wake up to the idea that poverty is a political choice and it can be solved through universal basic income.
@rubs77
@rubs77 2 жыл бұрын
i hope more people come to power who understand this is a good idea
@billyl2012
@billyl2012 5 жыл бұрын
Arrived here after Rutger Bregman dog walked Tucker Carlson (on his own show) and I need to know more about this great man.
@colinjones4022
@colinjones4022 5 жыл бұрын
Saaaaaaaame
@TheCrimson7272
@TheCrimson7272 5 жыл бұрын
He doesn't know anything about economics. Quoting an author who never took economics is pretty dumb. Half of his statements were pipe dreams and ALL of the studies he quoted are flawed and to propose them for 300m people is laughable. I also think poverty is bad. Is the solution for poverty getting paid for Nothing? Poverty has been decreasing world wide for decades. It's almost as if capitalism works. Inequality is increasing? If the millionaire becomes a billionaire and the homeless man ends up getting a stable job and buys a house, there is more inequality but both are better off. This guy is a quack
@DerAua
@DerAua 5 жыл бұрын
Same.
@SlasherNL
@SlasherNL 5 жыл бұрын
@@TheCrimson7272 You get it. A lot of people are just jealous of the rich. They think millionares got millionare by family inheritance or common luck. Which is quite the opposite. Many millionaires in the US for example got rich by hard work, dedication, taking risks and being wise with the money they had. Bregman wants to give lazy people free provisions which would in return become more lazy. Why work when the government takes care for you? Also why work when the government would in return lower your provisions? Usually these people would do some undeclared work to avoid tax cuts and reductions in provisions. Bregman is a dangerous socialist like AOC and purely in it for power and money. He wrote multiple books just for money and fame.
@ivantheterribler8346
@ivantheterribler8346 5 жыл бұрын
@@TheCrimson7272 so homelessness is not rising in the u.s, life expectancy hasnt gone down in the u.s?
@audreymuzingo933
@audreymuzingo933 4 жыл бұрын
You don't know how true this all is unless you've lived on a huge range of different income levels like I have.
@Mick0722MX
@Mick0722MX 3 жыл бұрын
So have I, and I still come to the same conclusion. There are some decisions that don't require much thought. It comes down to a simple question. I can barely support myself, so would it be advisable to have kids?
@janhend925
@janhend925 3 жыл бұрын
@@Mick0722MX Are you suggesting that poor people shouldn't be allowed to have kids?
@Mick0722MX
@Mick0722MX 3 жыл бұрын
@@janhend925 I never said they shouldn't be allowed. I'm saying they should be responsible to not have kids if they can't be raised properly.
@boerbol9422
@boerbol9422 3 жыл бұрын
@@Mick0722MX Thank you, you have a good point and the courage to state it. But I ask myself: People who are responsible, but cannot afford children. Is that not something that is unjust?
@Mick0722MX
@Mick0722MX 3 жыл бұрын
@@boerbol9422 No. What's unjust is expecting tax payers to fork out more money because those people choose to be stupid.
@NeeCJoe
@NeeCJoe 4 жыл бұрын
Probably one of the best ever TED talks I've ever watched. This is absolutely 👌🏿
@ebob4177
@ebob4177 3 жыл бұрын
His book HumanKIND is great too.
@NeeCJoe
@NeeCJoe 3 жыл бұрын
@@ebob4177 thank you, I'll look it up
@yumithelight4375
@yumithelight4375 3 жыл бұрын
I grew up in a hopeless environment, and haven't been able to survive. I'm a young Black woman. If I could count how many times people with way more than I had have told me "Life is easy, you're just thinking about it the wrong way" while they drive around with daddy's money in their pockets, ughh. I'd have a home by now.
@UnknownNev
@UnknownNev 7 ай бұрын
Are you doing better?
@darrenbailot8780
@darrenbailot8780 4 жыл бұрын
The sad thing is that most of us has known this for years. We keep sharing the message but nothing seems to change.
@andygian5523
@andygian5523 3 жыл бұрын
Because most of us doesn't have power to do anything, and deep down we already know the Government are only puppet of billionaire to control us so they can keep exploiting us.
@onxiaftw
@onxiaftw 3 жыл бұрын
action is needed not just talking about it
@adron7748
@adron7748 3 жыл бұрын
Andrew Yang believes in this
@nathansilinski9254
@nathansilinski9254 3 жыл бұрын
Perhaps you should work harder so you can give more, make the change that way, actually do something.
@tieman3790
@tieman3790 3 жыл бұрын
Just support Andrew Yang. Great guy
@GuidingEchoes
@GuidingEchoes 6 жыл бұрын
Martin Luthor didn't say 'I have a nightmare.' That line was brilliant. :) This was a wonderful talk. 🙂
@dougiequick1
@dougiequick1 6 жыл бұрын
I THINK he actually meant Martin Luther KING (and not his name sake "Martin Luther" As in protestant reformer way back when) ....just saying one needs to exercise care in quoting people ....hey does this guy even KNOW what "Martin Luther" WAS? I mean Martin Luther KING (and MLK jr) surly knew....
@a_diamond
@a_diamond 6 жыл бұрын
Dougie Quick obviously, the only "Martin Luther" that comes to mind when talking about :"I have a.." is doctor King. Full stop.
@DaveWard-xc7vd
@DaveWard-xc7vd 5 жыл бұрын
MLK had a dream. What he didnt have was a plan. Have A Plan If You Plan To Have.
@DanMcMillan-is-awesome
@DanMcMillan-is-awesome 5 жыл бұрын
Furrowed Brow scarcity takes your plans and flushes them. Thanks for showing you weren’t paying attention.
@DaveWard-xc7vd
@DaveWard-xc7vd 5 жыл бұрын
@@DanMcMillan-is-awesome Scarcity? Which 3rd world country do you live in?
@naomidelrio995
@naomidelrio995 3 жыл бұрын
We need more people to carry this message across the world.
@ericterry4335
@ericterry4335 3 жыл бұрын
Yes that was called communism. Hundred million plus dead Russia's never recovered nor have a lot of other places.
@bingbong6066
@bingbong6066 3 жыл бұрын
No eric. What rutger teaches is that everyone can have a basic income. And from that basic can earn more. In comunidm that basic is your roof.
@ericterry4335
@ericterry4335 3 жыл бұрын
@@bingbong6066 No Jens, you missed the point an the reference. What he teaches is just one more aspect of the failed whole. The whole being Socialism which ultimately takes the form of Communism. I'll ask you one more of the questions your cult can never answer. If giving people money helps them why not give them more and help them more?
@ericterry4335
@ericterry4335 3 жыл бұрын
@@bingbong6066 by the way he doesn't teach anything. He makes a lot of unsubstantiated claims based on one cherry-pick datastore source which is shoe horns in order to fit his predetermined conclusion
@ericterry4335
@ericterry4335 3 жыл бұрын
@@bingbong6066 You know what You're right Communism isn't a good example of this because well communism works off the same basic mindset It's still assumed that you'll all work for something before you get to magically have it. This assumes that you'll just steal it from other people!
@coldwynn
@coldwynn 2 жыл бұрын
Poverty is imposed. Imagine a society that values maximizing human potential rather than protecting the greediest.
@VitruvianVision
@VitruvianVision 6 жыл бұрын
An excellent talk. I have been rich and I have been poor. And getting out of poverty is almost impossible for most.
@undrtakr900
@undrtakr900 6 жыл бұрын
VitruvianVision That's because the rich elite don't want the poor to succeed, they only want you smart enough to perform the menial labor tasks they require, to make them more money.
@yanzhang25
@yanzhang25 6 жыл бұрын
Do you think helps like training and guidance are useful for the poor?
@JasperAlkmaar
@JasperAlkmaar 6 жыл бұрын
Undrtakr900, stop your victim mentality, it will get you nowhere.
@michaelblower7363
@michaelblower7363 6 жыл бұрын
Why not help make it easier for people to leave poverty? Surely there could be methods to use? :-)
@warnercheng5564
@warnercheng5564 6 жыл бұрын
Jappie Alkmaar you can tell this is truth but not the fact
@chinookvalley
@chinookvalley 5 жыл бұрын
A judge's daughter ran into me and totaled my car, and me. She was high on drugs and driving without a license. I had been earning $250K annually. The daughter didn't even get a ticket. I was threatened and harassed by the judge's "friends" and told to walk away from the lawsuit. I didn't but it was thrown out of court. I was innocent and injured. 30 years later I am disabled and poor. The judge's daughter is the cause of my symptoms.
@tigera10030
@tigera10030 5 жыл бұрын
Wow no news story about this?? This is horrible!
@SickPrid3
@SickPrid3 5 жыл бұрын
@@tigera10030 there is no story, he's lying
@Beattie755
@Beattie755 5 жыл бұрын
Where did that 250k go ?
@adelbertomuggler372
@adelbertomuggler372 5 жыл бұрын
Incredible !
@warriorfoe
@warriorfoe 5 жыл бұрын
Something tells me there are other things going on here... A case like this being thrown out of court? Unlikely. Additionally, you could have appealed.
@wrtyioo
@wrtyioo 4 жыл бұрын
Strongly agree. Think of all the creativity that will be put into action, when you don't have to worry about thinking about whether you have enough for food, rent, etc.
@cristianion2056
@cristianion2056 2 жыл бұрын
Just look of lottery winners. 75%og big lottery winners end up loosing all. That because most of them are already poor
@eave01
@eave01 3 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Arkansas. Through elementary school, I ate once a day. In junior high I ate one meal a week on Sunday, and foraged from the woods around the school. Clover, dandelion, Polk salad, wild blackberries. I joined the Army and put on 30 pounds in basic training. People are so much poorer now than they were then.
@williamwells835
@williamwells835 5 жыл бұрын
The saying goes: "He made his bed, let him sleep in it." What's missed from that saying is that -- we don't get to make the bed frame; nor the bedroom, etc., etc.
@akilumanga
@akilumanga 6 жыл бұрын
Judging by the comments, I think some people are overestimating the meaning of universal basic income - especially what is being discussed in this talk. What he is describing is the bare minimum. People don't stop working and live off the bare minimum - they want to live well. This would just mean that they had a chance of doing so in the first place.
@akilumanga
@akilumanga 6 жыл бұрын
I think automation (and sustainable clean energy) will reach a point where it just drives costs down to nothing. So eventually, we'll reach a point where everyone can have everything for free, and the only real concern is population control.
@ugospadafora2014
@ugospadafora2014 6 жыл бұрын
Amani Kilumanga Finally! Someone who uses logic. You're correct. Some of the best economists in the world have explained how automation boosts the economy by increasing productivity whilst reducing costs. If the whole world became automated, then everything would become so cheap that no one would be poor.
@cyberneticbutterfly8506
@cyberneticbutterfly8506 6 жыл бұрын
You can't get around the fact that at some point very few people own all the robots that do all the work and the rest of us somehow owe them money because we didn't have any jobs ourselves. This is an exaggeration but also a truth to some proportion. Taxing the rich must be done or complete accumulation of ownership of property in the hands of the few is unavoidable.
@akilumanga
@akilumanga 6 жыл бұрын
Well, now, we have to pay businesses x amount of money for their services. If the businesses were fully automated, that amount of money could be less. The price for the end-user would approach cost (of the robot), because any business that is overpricing its services can be replaced with another more competitive business. And then if there's a 3D printer kind of thechnology (that can print printers, as well as robots), then everyone can have a robot at the cost of the raw materials of it. This is assuming energy is solved and the software is open source.
@aoeu256
@aoeu256 6 жыл бұрын
Another thing we can do is give much needed loans to people with the worst prospects so that they get a vasectomy. High-school dropouts have 3 children, while college graduates have 1 child...
@msnoodles1
@msnoodles1 3 жыл бұрын
My impression has always been that the powers that be know fully well that poverty can be eradicated but they simply don't want to do it.
@roblonsote
@roblonsote 3 жыл бұрын
It's not that simple, he talks about 1(one) case study in Canada, that lasted a very short period of time, I live in a country where the effects of prolonged states of welfare ruined the initiative and changed the idiosyncrasy of the people, and corrupt politicians keep taking money by increasing taxes and adding restrictions to "help" the poor by making everyone poorer and the giving those new poor aid so that they vote for them again, while the political class gets richer and everyone gets poorer and poorer, plus there are many things that were not considered, like how different cultures and customs shape the way a group of people behave. Is not a simple problem at all.
@fatdad64able
@fatdad64able 3 жыл бұрын
@Amy McGrath: I agree. Also regulating the market to a certain extent, granting people basic rights (i.e. work, income, health care..) doesn't make a country socialist. Those are responsibilities of a government. Capitalism and socialism are just opposite extremes one as radical and "bad" for the people as the other.
@Servagio
@Servagio 2 жыл бұрын
When I, as a poor single mom, get 'that judgemental look' i think of this brilliant quote by James A Baldwin "Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor." Being poor makes you poorer still.
@markhedger6378
@markhedger6378 5 жыл бұрын
If the poor are not under the stress of survival they might start THINKING!!!! The top dogs don't want that to happen
@Freespiritedqueen
@Freespiritedqueen 5 жыл бұрын
I agree....
@lenia90
@lenia90 5 жыл бұрын
Mark Hedger ,this is a very good point.Just like almost everything else in this world is corrupt.They also want us in poor health so we still invest in Pharmacy,medication etc..Greetings from Germany
@LadyParis-xu2ri
@LadyParis-xu2ri 5 жыл бұрын
Exactly...they need to exploit others to survive.
@garetclaborn
@garetclaborn 5 жыл бұрын
i'm poor and starting a company. the majority of the poor in america don't stay in the lower class except when they are young and just left home. the majority of millionaires in america started with $0
@garetclaborn
@garetclaborn 5 жыл бұрын
btw running a company is more stress not less than just getting a stable job, be thankful to people who are willing to shoulder that to create jobs not hate them. because you know what happened when we lowered taxes? we got more total tax revenue thanks to so many companies returning who left america due to the tax rate
@xeryues
@xeryues 5 жыл бұрын
Loved him in Davos, loved him here. probably wont be invited to many places after stating these "extreme" views of taxation of the rich and global income
@ShiningLight411
@ShiningLight411 5 жыл бұрын
Eru I thought that was the guy! He’s awesome!
@ralphvandereb66
@ralphvandereb66 5 жыл бұрын
you seriously think you can tax the relative few rich and redistribute to the masses of poor, you think there is that much money around ?
@autohmae
@autohmae 5 жыл бұрын
@@ralphvandereb66 actually, yes, there is enough money. If you want, We could even point out: money is created out of nothing. Just look up how money is created.
@ralphvandereb66
@ralphvandereb66 5 жыл бұрын
@@autohmae well i am sure you are a great economist then, are you also a flat earther ?
@autohmae
@autohmae 5 жыл бұрын
@@ralphvandereb66 no, I'm not a great economist. But the most leading economists say that something like UBI is a very useful tool and should probably be used. Also great economist and flat earther are not usually things that go together. ;-)
@TdSj10
@TdSj10 Жыл бұрын
Probably the best TED conference ever...
@steelerscountry4849
@steelerscountry4849 3 жыл бұрын
If we objectify a population or community than we can avoid the facts and their safety.
@blockededited8280
@blockededited8280 5 жыл бұрын
It's hard to build something from nothing. If a man with little to no money makes a financial mistake, the impact is much more damaging than for the rich man who makes the same dollar-for-dollar mistake because the rich man can absorb it while the poor man cannot. Just food for thought.
@manictiger
@manictiger 5 жыл бұрын
Life isn't fair, but excuses make success IMPOSSIBLE. Do you want success to be improbable or IMPOSSIBLE? Stop making excuses. Everything is your fault, including your wins and successes. If you don't have enough, get more.
@sinistar99
@sinistar99 5 жыл бұрын
Its easy to be "successful" when you can just keep rolling the dice.
@mrlaforgephysics
@mrlaforgephysics 5 жыл бұрын
@@manictiger a mindset very popular with those who started off with success and advantage or the few from poverty who manages to escape. Yet all the poor entrepreneurs who have failed businesses can tell you it's not that simple.
@jamiefinn4438
@jamiefinn4438 5 жыл бұрын
.... I feel sorry for your brain.
@Random-rs9bl
@Random-rs9bl 5 жыл бұрын
@@jamiefinn4438 i feel sorry for your brain...idiot
@tiberseptim8434
@tiberseptim8434 5 жыл бұрын
As a young history student I really look up to this guy. He has a very blunt, but easy way to get information across, and he made tucker carlson mad af, which is always a plus in my book.
@Stasiaflonase
@Stasiaflonase 4 жыл бұрын
Good old clueless Tucker!!!!!
@sva9834
@sva9834 4 жыл бұрын
This "blunt" style is typical for Dutch society. Not in a negative way, it helps us getting things done. But on this topic, The Netherlands have a long way to go too.
@ellaluzpicavet
@ellaluzpicavet 3 жыл бұрын
@@sva9834 very true, both your first and second point.
@johnwt7333
@johnwt7333 3 жыл бұрын
He is hot too
@tiberseptim8434
@tiberseptim8434 3 жыл бұрын
Stan vA Oh I’m German, I know ^^
@robertrstevens
@robertrstevens 7 ай бұрын
As a beneficiary of such a policy in the 1950s, I can attest that It Works. The cash that I was 'given' was earned by working at an entry level factory job. After four straight summers working there I completed four years at a university where I finished with a bachelors degree. A higher paying job then led to a year and summer session at the same university and a masters degree. My next step was work as a graduate assistant at another university and, after 3 years at this, finished with a PhD - and from there to become a college professor. In short, what Bregman discusses in this video DID work for me in the Old Republic of the last century! Sadly, all this changed with the ascendancy of regressive policies and a culture of greed from the disastrous Republican Party. We can continue this deadly spiral against our better nature, and decay and die, with a ruinous decline into authoritarianism from another tRUMP presidency. ..... The very bottom line is: DON'T LET THAT HAPPEN!
@leonards4371
@leonards4371 3 жыл бұрын
8:50 Results of UBI experiment in Canada 10:30 He starts his thesis about how and why to get rid of poverty. 10:40 The cost of poverty $500 bil The cost to end poverty $175 bil 13:41 importance of being for the solutions instead of complaining about the problem. 14:10 He describes an inspired alternative dream life for workers.
@1hmedmalik
@1hmedmalik Жыл бұрын
thank you so much it’s for my homework for sociology to write 5 notes and i couldn’t be bothered watching this
@BalajiS
@BalajiS 5 жыл бұрын
"I believe in a future where the value of your work is not determined by the size of your paycheck, but by the amount of happiness you spread and the amount of meaning you give. I believe in a future where the point of education is not to prepare you for another useless job but for a life well-lived. I believe in a future where an existence without poverty is not a privilege but a right we all deserve" That's top class!
@hydraelectricblue
@hydraelectricblue 5 жыл бұрын
*Reality Check: The 2008 crash: rich people and their character flaws for which the U.S is still suffering.*
@billwest7481
@billwest7481 5 жыл бұрын
No...wealthy people don't buy during bubbles. They wait until there's blood in the streets and buy everything. Then they sell it off later on the way up. Do you realize how much discipline that behavior requires?
@Listman11
@Listman11 5 жыл бұрын
Speak for yourself. I’m doing great.
@germsage6726
@germsage6726 5 жыл бұрын
Goes back to the point of the video, they already secured their basic needs; that's why they can wait, it is not discipline.
@1MarkKeller
@1MarkKeller 5 жыл бұрын
@@germsage6726 Also would explain their creation of the bubbles in the first place. Start the fire, then come along later to put it out.
@hokkitt
@hokkitt 5 жыл бұрын
Yes - and that was socialism, not capitalism
@didieighty8
@didieighty8 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much Rutger! This was an amazing and moving talk.
@darchendon7926
@darchendon7926 3 жыл бұрын
But if the poor have money, how will we control them and fight our wars for us? :((((((
@ladywaffle2210
@ladywaffle2210 3 жыл бұрын
Religion
@MommaLousKitchen
@MommaLousKitchen 2 жыл бұрын
True
@leonrobinson8180
@leonrobinson8180 2 жыл бұрын
@@ladywaffle2210 Rubbish. Growing up as a poor Christian, my faith helped me to hope. To believe in the future. I was encouraged by Biblical figures who rose from poverty to greatness. Plus my church has food drives.
@ladywaffle2210
@ladywaffle2210 2 жыл бұрын
@@leonrobinson8180 I have several Crusades, religion-based persecution, and several wars to show you. Where shall we start? The First Crusade? The Thirty Years War? The murder of gay men? The suppression of anything but heterosexuality for literally thousands of years? Religion has fueled more violence than almost anything else. But oh! Your church has a food drive, so I guess literally centuries of death and destruction is all forgiven.
@nillyman2343
@nillyman2343 4 жыл бұрын
“the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”
@pashaveres4629
@pashaveres4629 4 жыл бұрын
None of those things are legitimate functions of government.
@mfst100
@mfst100 4 жыл бұрын
Don't you all start with government. Every nation has the government it deserves. We all contribute to the reality we and next generations have to live in by our everyday little actions and mindsets, and what we say etc.
@sizzlenotsteak
@sizzlenotsteak 4 жыл бұрын
NO. Those are the moral tests of a parent, of a person. The only moral test of a government is whether it exists at the consent of the governed and that it plunders less, not more.
@sa-iw4dr
@sa-iw4dr 3 жыл бұрын
@@pashaveres4629 Dear Pasha Veres, SAYS WHO? They need to be a function of a civilized humane society!
@soonyanaidu7875
@soonyanaidu7875 3 жыл бұрын
Beautifully said
@proffesordick4589
@proffesordick4589 5 жыл бұрын
Only people who have lived in great poverty understand the destructiveness of money . It is the greed of the few that creates this imbalance that destroys families by the millions.
@garetclaborn
@garetclaborn 5 жыл бұрын
only someone who has lived a life without poverty would think something so stupid. in actuality absolute and abject poverty is the natural way of human civilization and only capitalism has reduced absolute poverty. relative poverty is not affected by capitalism or socialism, only natural disaster and war but capitalism can at least create living wages, food, shelter, electricity and even entertainment. socialism has the majority of times taken these things away from people and made everyone equally poor
@hopemartushev7536
@hopemartushev7536 5 жыл бұрын
Only people who believe money is destructive live in poverty
@MrDavidBFoster
@MrDavidBFoster 5 жыл бұрын
@@hopemartushev7536 Not true, I have everything I could ever need, just not a whole lot that I want. Just be glad I don't pursue it!
@MrDavidBFoster
@MrDavidBFoster 5 жыл бұрын
The corporation grew from the firm, and the firm grew from the shop, and the shop grew from the lemonade stand... At what point does one stop growing their business for fear of being labeled "greedy" by someone of lesser achievements? Your answer determines whether you belong on the left or the right.
@arisoda
@arisoda 5 жыл бұрын
Look up The Zeitgeist Movement hehe. May be worth your time o.O It (among A LOT of other things) says that we should abandon money all together and automate almost everything. Should be possible in 20-30 years.
@wschmidt944
@wschmidt944 3 жыл бұрын
This is such an amazingly beautiful and sensible talk. The time has come to focus on wellbeing and compassion instead of money, power and materialism. When will we rid ourselves of these small and childish ideals. It's time to evolve!
@akituokko9461
@akituokko9461 3 жыл бұрын
If you wanna pursue this ”evolvement” you can always donate all of your money to the poor....
@wschmidt944
@wschmidt944 3 жыл бұрын
@@akituokko9461 That would be a terrible strategy. Also, this is not about blaming each other, it's the system we're in that's out of whack. That's why I'm pursuing this 'evolvement' by demanding system changes from our government.
@akituokko9461
@akituokko9461 3 жыл бұрын
@@wschmidt944 you literally said that it would be terrible strategy but you still want all of us to do it? Thats kinda ironic. 😂
@wschmidt944
@wschmidt944 3 жыл бұрын
@@akituokko9461 You're talking about making personal changes. I'm talking system change.
@wschmidt944
@wschmidt944 3 жыл бұрын
@@akituokko9461 And also, giving away all my money would mean there's one more poor person in the world. So yeah, it's a terrible strategy.
@christianself
@christianself 7 ай бұрын
“ NO MAN CAN BE WISE ON AN EMPTY STOMACH “.- George Eliot
@user-xk1ui4jt4p
@user-xk1ui4jt4p 6 жыл бұрын
why focus on whether the opinion is left or right? why not try to listen what the opinion is?
@Firmus777
@Firmus777 6 жыл бұрын
Because it is easier to complain than to analyse the countless complaints it gets from the left or the support it gets from the right.
@marcomeme4875
@marcomeme4875 6 жыл бұрын
刘政 because right wingers are either poor, angry trailer trash who think the reason they are poor is blacks, Jews or Mexicans. And rich right wingers think because they were born rich and went to the best colleges and had their apartments paid for, poverty is just a result of people being stupid and lazy and not a self perpetuating, decade long circle. After all, they worked at Taco Bell a few months to pay the rent.
@NietzscheanMan
@NietzscheanMan 6 жыл бұрын
Because "left" ideological cancer has killed a few hundred million people and for some that's enough.
@Harmonia96
@Harmonia96 6 жыл бұрын
Riley and Nietz, CAN IT. You two are the problem that the OP is addressing because you're so quick to point fingers at each other rather than listen.
@TheLivirus
@TheLivirus 6 жыл бұрын
刘政 I've heard that basic income is popular among both the left and right. On the one hand it helps the poor, and on the other hand hands over the responsibility of how taxes are best spent to individuals and eliminates a lot of beurocracy since it may substitute most other government programs, allowing private business to provide the services.
@Edzter
@Edzter 5 жыл бұрын
When i was in school i was too poor to let myself go out anywhere with classmates when invited. Eventually i stopped getting invited and turned incredibly introverted as a result.
@MfsUnitedAgainstMe
@MfsUnitedAgainstMe 2 жыл бұрын
Same pinch. :(
@saeedkhazaei1947
@saeedkhazaei1947 Жыл бұрын
Because of the lack of intellectual power related to poor people, many authorities want people to live in poverty to guarantee their power... unfortunately we, ordinary people, condemn to live a completely poor life, depriving of everything which helps us to know them and their injustice. Yes, we have to continue and we must accept all of these situations until we die...
@FromFame
@FromFame 4 жыл бұрын
Just finished the book, such an underrated author with a simple and powerful understanding. He taught me well. He should be talked about everywhere on social media.
@pjhector6538
@pjhector6538 4 жыл бұрын
The fact that we have to have a talk on poverty like this at all is just wow... If you have no cash you cannot operate in a modern society period.
@bigman0280
@bigman0280 3 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@revolutionunderground
@revolutionunderground Жыл бұрын
That is by design - supposedly how the globalists like it.
@Aleyaha699
@Aleyaha699 4 жыл бұрын
Andrew Yang talks about this now. Hes the only candidate advocating for it.
@denelson83
@denelson83 4 жыл бұрын
And he's now been thrown out of the race.
@albiceleste101
@albiceleste101 3 жыл бұрын
@@denelson83 You cant win unless you're corrupt
@denelson83
@denelson83 3 жыл бұрын
@@albiceleste101 Which means the US isn't a democracy. It's a _capitalist dictatorship._
@wolfstar675
@wolfstar675 3 жыл бұрын
And now he sold out to CNN. Yang's a fraud.
@Alic4444
@Alic4444 3 жыл бұрын
@@wolfstar675 He's been great on CNN. People sometimes need to take stock of the ramifications of their own opinions. If you think CNN (and all big media) is corrupt and has a negative effect on our country, you should WANT people with interesting, valuable voices to become well known enough that CNN has to give them screen time and a voice at the table. Hoping they'll just go out of business is kid stuff -- a major media company is too powerful a tool, and will just be bought by some new billionaire if they're ever close to bankruptcy.
@upside-downsmore9437
@upside-downsmore9437 3 жыл бұрын
I didn't expect this to turn into a discussion about universal basic income but I'm glad it did
@raffydibansa8458
@raffydibansa8458 2 жыл бұрын
it's just as he said we miss out on a lot of things simply because we like to think ourselves special for not being poor, when in reality we spend our lives for what is basically our simple needs. we can do better
@DerAua
@DerAua 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you Tucker for suggesting this guy. :-)
@cinditrautmann7228
@cinditrautmann7228 4 жыл бұрын
Wow. In reading through these comments, I’m realizing this country really is polarized beyond repair.
@maad1827
@maad1827 3 жыл бұрын
Hi from a yr later...anytime i think it cant get any worse it DOES
@JohnSmith-su3ze
@JohnSmith-su3ze 3 жыл бұрын
So what do you think now cindi?
@ladywaffle2210
@ladywaffle2210 3 жыл бұрын
Let's face it: America got shot in the lung and has been living on life support with no hope of recovery ever since the Red Scare
@josjanssen6733
@josjanssen6733 3 жыл бұрын
Great lecture. "Down and out in London and Paris" by George Orwell springs to mind. When you haven't any, it obsesses you and it effectively drowns out other things from your mind. It annihilates the future. Or "Wozzeck" by Büchner: It's easy to be moral when you're not poor. And then Rutger becomes practical. The simplicity of what he says is great.
@Zohirul-Jewel
@Zohirul-Jewel 3 жыл бұрын
One effective way to combat poverty would be to just work less and let someone else have a job. The problem of poverty isn't just that the poor consume to little, but the rich consume to much. Hans Rosling explains this every well in his TedTalk.
@e.g.systems6146
@e.g.systems6146 5 жыл бұрын
Rutger is a genius. I remember reading books, in the 60's, about how automation and robots would make a utopia where we all had a great life in clean cities full of trees and parks, with plenty of time to learn, grow, and do fun things with our kids. The reality, nearly 50 years later, is that just as I expected, the rich don't like the idea of giving up a SMALL portion of what they have so that the rest of the world can have a great life too, so when our jobs are replaced by AI, unless someone finally "gets it" that society has to undergo a radical change in how we see work, money, and life itself, things will actually get worse over the next 50 years, not better. The richest 1% now owns half the world's wealth. They could give up 20% of that, and everyone else would be happy.
@jasonross6727
@jasonross6727 5 жыл бұрын
@Zaya the 1960s.
@kostastrikala7727
@kostastrikala7727 5 жыл бұрын
unfortunately not so simple
@chris5201
@chris5201 5 жыл бұрын
You're leading by example by donating 20% of everything you have right?
@e.g.systems6146
@e.g.systems6146 5 жыл бұрын
@@chris5201 I'm self-emplyed, and barely able to pay my bills right now. But thanks for asking. My point was that the RICH could give SOME money to the poor, and everyone would enjoy a better life, including the rich. I know they won't, because people's first thought is for themselves. To further address your point, I often give small jobs for free to those customers who obviously can't afford to pay. It's not much, but it's not nothing either.
@chris5201
@chris5201 5 жыл бұрын
E.G. Systems you should get a better job. If this was implemented and paid for by taxes it’d be nothing more than legislated theft
@Sparklfoot
@Sparklfoot 4 жыл бұрын
I’ve always said, I don’t need more work, I need more money.
@AdrianSanchezq
@AdrianSanchezq 4 жыл бұрын
Because you're a socialist piece of filth
@Mensch-et3xm
@Mensch-et3xm 4 жыл бұрын
@@AdrianSanchezq Thank you for reminding us that people are evil.
@Mythraen
@Mythraen 3 жыл бұрын
@@AdrianSanchezq Clearly, you're in the wrong place. This is a place of learning. The willfully ignorant do not belong here. You should be here, of course, but we both know you're not interested in improving your understanding of the world.
@autumnramble
@autumnramble 3 жыл бұрын
"Because you're a socialist piece of filth" More money for less work? Sound like capitalist piece of filth.
@Sparklfoot
@Sparklfoot 3 жыл бұрын
I appreciate the sensible support for a really very sensible observation. A world that works for everyone is an opportunity. It’s not a demonstration of filth, or a socialist plot, it’s very humane and not traumatic.
@user-tp2wz1gq4z
@user-tp2wz1gq4z 2 ай бұрын
My opinon: This TedTalk became one of my most favorite speeches! - The speech is organized very well. Whatever his argument is he brings examples and proofs in different ways: stories, statistics, pictures, researches. -He talks about very sensitive topic while being able to do little jokes that perfectly fit in the speech. -Moreover, he bring a new perspective which is rare to find. There are many people arguing that everything in life comes with our mindset. Personal connection: To be honest, I even have personal connection as an example. Whenever I have a deadline in my university courses, my mind is busy being anxious about the time that is running from me:) And as a result I do everything quickly and it kind of worsens the quality of the work. Its the same concept: Scarcity. Scarcity affects mind and our actions!
@fisherpeace560
@fisherpeace560 2 жыл бұрын
I really love the idea, but I wonder, if the basic income is provided, how would the prices and cost of living change? If the government cannot control the prices for food, education and sheltering, the basic income would be next to nothing soon.
@pforce9
@pforce9 5 жыл бұрын
There already is a federal minimum wage in America for Wall Street. They screw up and the federal government pays to bail out their company and guarantee their bonuses.
@tomspoors768
@tomspoors768 5 жыл бұрын
Ouch! Well said, sir!
@genzreviewer6937
@genzreviewer6937 4 жыл бұрын
@Snappingturtle 267 Wait whaaaa?? I didn't quite understand what you just said here, can you explain yourself and provide evidence from a credible source to back your claim?
@genzreviewer6937
@genzreviewer6937 4 жыл бұрын
@Snappingturtle 267 As a matter of fact, I did do my research before quoting CNN So you are saying it is OKAY for the government to use TAXPAYER money, and LOAN(bailout) it to the financial institutions that LIED to the American public, allowed the repackaging of bad lending product, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and life savings, created the Great Recession. BECAUSE they promise the government go pay back the bailout with interest?! And also the executives at these financial institutions also used the government loan(bailouts) to pay themselves bonuses(extra paychecks) for lying and making bad business decision! So what about the average American? I did not hear the government loaning the public billions of dollars so they can recover their losses doing the Great Recession. The government didn't bailout (loan) the average American millions of dollars when they went bankrupt. How do you explain this? What I am trying to say is, it is truly Socialism for the rich Capitalism for the poor
@genzreviewer6937
@genzreviewer6937 4 жыл бұрын
@Snappingturtle 267 It was the fraudulent practice insurance agency and the willful failure on the bank's part to verify the actual income of the person they are lending to that caused the Great Recession. Make no mistake, public greed was involved, but it didn't come first, it was the corporate greed that induced the public greed. And by the way, how is taxing the average American and then loaning(giving) it to the corporate elites, not a socialist redistribution? It is literally the definition of a wealth transfer. These corporate elites used the bailout money as bonuses buyback properties and assets which they frauded the general public at dirt cheap price and then flipped it when the government propped up the economy, making them a huge profit. And that is how they were able to "pay back with interest" If the government didn't bail them out, they would have been broke and be locked up in jail. You are going to honestly tell me that this isn't wealth transfer for the rich?
@ugeofaltron5003
@ugeofaltron5003 4 жыл бұрын
This is not intended towards the OP, but you can easily go to independent news like Majority Report who can also explain the cause of the 2008 financial crisis with details and be right about it, unlike snappingturtle.
@goldimari
@goldimari 6 жыл бұрын
What does it say about America when the common attitude about the poor is that it is a character flaw and the homeless deserve to be homeless instead of considering that there may be a broken institution that has stacked the deck against them?
@russellbonaccorso8310
@russellbonaccorso8310 6 жыл бұрын
That's not the common attitude in the US. The common attitude is that it is a lack of education, not a character flaw. The speaker uses some anecdotal quotes (by a non-American) and it automatically gets attributed to all as the common belief. It is not. The poor and rich in America are transient. Many of today's wealthiest Americans are from "new money". They had a brilliant idea and figured out how to market it to the masses. Most of us won't be a Bill Gates or a Mark Zuckerberg, but it is possible. The key is to take advantages of the opportunities presented to you as they become available.
@LVishere
@LVishere 6 жыл бұрын
LOL if you think everybody that can code will start an idea and have it be successful, you thought wrong. There's only so many Microsofts and Snapchats one can make. Mark and Bill are rare, rare cases and both of them were born to wealthy families and had opportunities that most working class people wouldn't have. That's like me hitting the lotto and buying the best teachers to teach my kid and then my kid goes to Harvard and learns how to code and starts XYZ and becomes a multi-billionaire. He probably wouldn't have been here or had the opportunity to succeed in such a way had I not hit the lottery.
@russellbonaccorso8310
@russellbonaccorso8310 6 жыл бұрын
LOL, uh, you missed my point.
@chrisw1197
@chrisw1197 6 жыл бұрын
Love Moore he literally just said most of us won’t be gates and zuckerburg but it is possible
@freudianslippers6567
@freudianslippers6567 5 жыл бұрын
For a "christian" nation, they certainly aren't very christly.
@englishideaonlineschoolofe8213
@englishideaonlineschoolofe8213 4 жыл бұрын
Oh my God, I love this performance, thank you a lot! God bless! And I am in!
@guiltyconscience2376
@guiltyconscience2376 3 жыл бұрын
It's only when we suffer do we realize the lack of equality. My friend always said "stop giving money to the homeless they will use it for drugs" then his narrative became "stop feeding the homeless they need to fend for themselves" and now he's broke and it's "hey man can you send me some money I need help covid fucked me" and my response "i stopped giving money to the homeless they need to learn to fend for themselves"
@realitynowassigned
@realitynowassigned 3 жыл бұрын
Hahaha. Is that true tho
@guiltyconscience2376
@guiltyconscience2376 3 жыл бұрын
realitynowassigned he’s not broke, but he isn’t doing great by any means.
@realitynowassigned
@realitynowassigned 3 жыл бұрын
@@guiltyconscience2376 okay but is what you already said true.
@guiltyconscience2376
@guiltyconscience2376 3 жыл бұрын
realitynowassigned oh yeah.
@jean-pierre9698
@jean-pierre9698 3 жыл бұрын
Stupidest thing i read all day
@tobias3125
@tobias3125 5 жыл бұрын
Since Aristotle we know this. In my philosophy studies at the university you learn at the beginning: Aristotle was just able to do philosophy, because he had slaves. We do not have slaves anymore. But you need to have security and time for thinking about more than just how to survive.
@ellcally508
@ellcally508 5 жыл бұрын
Exactly. The most famous intellectuals were filthy rich.
@pasmas3217
@pasmas3217 4 жыл бұрын
@@ellcally508 I do not agree with this point. being able to afford life to te fullest definitely helped them focus on their study, but at the same time there have been many who did a lot just on the poverty line or under it. And most of the intellectuals were ok financially, not filthy rich because being that much better than everyone usually has a negative result that gets u to appoint that u do not consider actuall work to be needed. that is why the laziest people are the mostrich ones (the ones who didn't get there, but started there-born there)
@XxxXxx-fm3wo
@XxxXxx-fm3wo 4 жыл бұрын
Oh there are slaves, many slaves...with invisible chains and even actually own people. You’d be amazed what you can buy on the dark net nowadays! But my original point is most people are enslaved and staying that way-just ask Donald Trump-“you’re fired”! Trump, “I love the hispanics, they work cheep for me in my hotels, but the rest just stay in your $h*t hole countries, if you think your are coming to America to get rich like people of my skin tone you are wrong.” Donald Trump sure does he loves his slaves, I mean minimum wage mules! Trump, “Now Mexico pay us to keep the hispanics on that side of the wall, thank you very much.” “I will allow a few in each year to maintain my golf course lawns and hotel beds, for minimum slave wage, I mean working wage of course, hardest working people, love em”
@dillimore
@dillimore 5 жыл бұрын
Tucker Carlson brought me here
@solomonsam8927
@solomonsam8927 5 жыл бұрын
dillimore no way! me too. i’m obsessed with this guy. i’m going through his videos
@neosandy
@neosandy 5 жыл бұрын
Me too lol
@abowlofsalad8812
@abowlofsalad8812 5 жыл бұрын
Same here.
@jeffgrimm
@jeffgrimm 5 жыл бұрын
@@solomonsam8927I am against the elites. But the "historian" probably lives in the past with this ideas. We live in different times than Eisenhower's. The rich will just move their money via two taps on their iPad. Things changed the world is connected, especially the financial market. 70-90% tax rate for the rich is unreasonable in this day and age. And who believes Millionaires like Trump, Clinton, Pence, Sanders or Pelosi will get taxed at 80% is delusional...
@beverly719
@beverly719 5 жыл бұрын
@@jeffgrimm please remember that it is a marginal tax rate. They aren't paying on all of their money earned just the amount OVER x amount.
@rosaliebosma
@rosaliebosma Жыл бұрын
"I believe in a future where the value of your work is not determined by the size of your paycheck, but by the amount of happiness you spread and the amount of meaning you give. I believe in a future where the point of education is not to prepare you for another useless job, but for a life well-lived. I believe in a future where an existence without poverty is not a privilege, but a right we all deserve"
@simoni6770
@simoni6770 Жыл бұрын
Finally, after years of motivational videos condemning the poor for their poor decisions as a lack of character, here is a man who looks at poverty right from the context. Rich people will say: The poor will use their money to buy things they consume. Tell me, what does anyone expect a person who has money enough for food for a couple of days to do? Invest it in the stoke market? Man will attend to their most pressing need in this context! So this man is absolutely right.
@paigetorrance1188
@paigetorrance1188 4 жыл бұрын
Really brilliant talk. “The best minds of our day are being used to make people click ads” - so true!
@callofthewild9175
@callofthewild9175 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Mr. Bregman. I've lived in poverty all my life, watched my wages drop, while prices if necessities skyrocket, and it's really nice to see more and more people getting real about the problem. "What do you call a system that renders half of its population poor and low-income? You call that a FAILED SYSTEM." -Jimmy Dore Systemic poverty, by definition, is not an individual's responsibility.
@Protectobot
@Protectobot 4 жыл бұрын
Failed by design, and as Bernie Sanders says, no person that works 40 hours a week should live in poverty under starvation wages!
@Protectobot
@Protectobot 4 жыл бұрын
Jimmy also said that Wall St. got bailed out for its OWN mistakes (and crimes), but the ppl (main st.) did NOT get a bail-out: corporate socialism for the rich and corporations and rugged individualism for everyone else...
@jusayenso8186
@jusayenso8186 4 жыл бұрын
Then learn to catch the lies politicians say as they sell insane points. Here's one example. I've heard more than one high ranking politician sell the notion that every child can have a college degree. The fact is, this makes no sense. Than who is going to do the well over 40 million very necessary jobs that require no degree? Why do politicians lie? Because the people's votes they are targeting are quite naive about business. "I'll have fries with my Bic Mac, and by the way, what college did you graduate from?" ...Sure thing, mr. politician...whatever you say. Laborers, railroad workers, streets and sanitation employees, dishwashers, janitors, and the long list of more examples.
@Protectobot
@Protectobot 4 жыл бұрын
@@jusayenso8186 Hopefully Bernie and Tulsi aren't among the vast majority of lying politicians. I've heard of Bernie and maybe even Tulsi referred to as 'controlled opposition'. I hope not! As Bernie says though, it takes a movement and not just 1 or 2 politicians (or spiritual leaders like MLK) to change ppls' views and foster attempts to solve global problems.
@raidenwave4219
@raidenwave4219 2 жыл бұрын
I'm positively thrilled about the core message of this presentation although I must admit to feeling a certain sense of dread when thinking that the sentence "poverty is a lack of cash" had to be said and that it had to be made litteral and clear.
@kaizen_5091
@kaizen_5091 Жыл бұрын
"I believe in a future where an existence without poverty is not a privilege but a right we all deserve" - One of the best TED talks I've ever seen!
@elizabethbronsdon-kudjoi3727
@elizabethbronsdon-kudjoi3727 5 жыл бұрын
Beautiful speech! Here in my adoptive country Finland, an experiment on this has just ended.
@troyturton8197
@troyturton8197 5 жыл бұрын
Yes, the only job I ever had, that I also liked AND paid me a decent living? Was the only job I never quit. It was taken away from me instead. By greedy owners who were offered a hunk of cash for it. They couldn't resist. 67 people lost their jobs for a bit less then $2 million. I very rarely ever had to tell my 2nd shift crew what to do. I gave them 1 simple task. This is the job we have to have done by midnight. And I don't care how you get it done, as long as it's done right & before midnight. You can do what ever else you want, as long as the job is done. My crew loved me because I put it that simple and they loved they could either bust the job out, or take 7 hours & 45 minutes to get it done. They only let me down once and it was because I had let them down. By never asking them if anyone wanted to do another job, other then the one they were doing.
@billtoscano5750
@billtoscano5750 5 жыл бұрын
i bet you worked at a newspaper.
@nroger01
@nroger01 3 жыл бұрын
God says: Give to the poor. Rutger Bregman says: Give to the poor. I say: Thank God for Rutger Bregman.
@autohmae
@autohmae 3 жыл бұрын
The Christians in the US (many who are right wing): but isn't that communism ?
@ramoth777
@ramoth777 3 жыл бұрын
@@autohmae Of course not. Giving your own money voluntarily is charity. Big Government picking the pockets of society's producers and giving it away is socialism. The poor remain poor because they depend on that perpetual handout and see no need to make any effort to improve their lot in life. And let's not forget that socialism paves the way for communism. History shows this abundantly, but only if we learn from it instead of repeat it.
@autohmae
@autohmae 3 жыл бұрын
@@ramoth777 You want to talk charity ? Let's first set the current situation: the poor pay a higher taxes percentage wise than the rich. The rich aren't paying their taxes, that goes to a tax haven. Then the rich put part of it in a charity they don't pay taxes over and only actually use 5% for charity, the rest is investment money they invest without paying that taxes I mentioned before. So let's fix that first, then we can talk about taxes and charity and the poor.
@ramoth777
@ramoth777 3 жыл бұрын
@@autohmae Thanks for your post...but I'm afraid that you're talking about another issue altogether. I was simply correcting the misconception about biblical charity being akin to communism, and pointing out what leftist policy leads to.
@nroger01
@nroger01 3 жыл бұрын
@@autohmae I mean... who knows any man's heart?
@acebrown9656
@acebrown9656 Жыл бұрын
I grew up in one of the worst projects in Baltimore City but I was blessed with visionary, disciplinarian and dedicated parents who taught me that excuses and a lack of self motivation in academics will not prepare me to be successful in life. My parents instilled positive morals, values and self worth to me at an early age. I thank God every day for my parents bc without them , it would have been extremely difficult for me to achieve my goals in life. Lastly, I started my 33 yrs of teaching this school yr and I pray to teach many more yrs . I love teaching young scholars to vision and work hard in their academics. I can’t retire now bc I have many more young second/ third graders to help reach their full academic potential. I teach to reach all my scholars. If by chance I don’t reach some of my scholars, I blame myself for not making a difference in those children’s lives. I tell my male scholars every day,” Never Ever Stop Learning!” I tell my female scholars every day, “ They are brilliant, intelligent and smart as well as beautiful/ gorgeous!! I wish you could see their faces light up in the morning before we mastered all skills in every subject!! Discipline, Structure and love will eliminate poverty!!!! Ace Brown
@WindofChange2023
@WindofChange2023 4 ай бұрын
You are an inspiration. Powerful message. Great to see someone out there actually doing what they preach, Respect!!
@masterphotog4131
@masterphotog4131 5 жыл бұрын
Rutger Bregman, thank for sharing your amazingly refreshing dream that we ALL would benefit from. Keep up the good work. Love from Canada.
@lokanoda
@lokanoda 4 жыл бұрын
@Snappingturtle 267 Please explain.
@bossnian5615
@bossnian5615 5 жыл бұрын
Thought it would be just another 15 min ted talk, glad i clicked
@elmateo77
@elmateo77 4 жыл бұрын
@Snappingturtle 267 A universal basic income is NOT socialism. Maybe if you'd actually paid attention in school you'd know what socialism actually is and understand that...
@annakatepollard2318
@annakatepollard2318 2 жыл бұрын
Wow. Wow. Wow!!! Thank you for this Ted Talk!!! Now we need politicians who push for this. Who can we vote for! How do we bring this better into the public view? Love love love. Thank you. I was raised in poverty, so I understand this from both sides of the coin. It is so true, all he says. And so easy to fix. I love this. Now we need a book, group, Facebook page, a political group .. Just... Thanks.
@MrSinister718
@MrSinister718 2 жыл бұрын
If you think using a town in Canada with 15 black people proves that supplying a bunch of smart white people with money will fix poverty for everyone, you live in a fantasy world like the moron in this TED talk. You can call it racism or bigotry, or whatever. But he talked IQ and it's a proven fact minorities all have lower IQs, and then he used a town almost completely devoid of minorities to prove his point. That's misleading, dishonest, and a bait and switch. I'm never willingly giving my money to a black community. And if you disagree go live in one!
@BopLouie
@BopLouie Ай бұрын
This is my favorite video I've seen in such a long time. I have been so pessimistic about the world, but truthfully this video has lifted me. Thank you so much ❤
@GabrielEze
@GabrielEze 4 жыл бұрын
Andrew Yang is carrying this man's message absolutely. Wow!
@NordeGrasen34
@NordeGrasen34 5 жыл бұрын
Where is the love option for videos? Like doesn't do justice.
@xstrawarot
@xstrawarot 4 жыл бұрын
Snappingturtle 267 except europe u ignorant fool ;)
@dwarakanarayan
@dwarakanarayan 3 жыл бұрын
I feel so happy after watching this. 😅 Ofcourse, lots to do within and without. Thanks so much for sharing, Mr. Rutger B!
@kathspace
@kathspace 2 жыл бұрын
Can’t believe I’ve only just discovered this talk. Everyone should watch this!
@jeoenriquez7151
@jeoenriquez7151 6 жыл бұрын
Finally, a fair and honest view about poverty,....
@achilleasfloudas1972
@achilleasfloudas1972 5 жыл бұрын
We should care less about left or right politics (excluding extremes) and care more about the veracity of the ideas. Need to finally move away from "football club" style politics to meaningful actions.
@tofu_golem
@tofu_golem 5 жыл бұрын
That's the conflict that defines this era. Leftists look at the current situation and think "This is unfair. How can we return some of that wealth and power to ordinary people?" Rightists look out at the same world and think "This is unfair. How can we transfer even more wealth and power from the undeserving many to the economic elites?"
@Xpistos510
@Xpistos510 5 жыл бұрын
This comment is grossly underrated.
@lemostjoyousrenegade
@lemostjoyousrenegade 5 жыл бұрын
Jacob Serrano I agree.
@jeanesseintes3451
@jeanesseintes3451 5 жыл бұрын
@False Feathers Allowing corporations to control society with their wealth,control wages without regulation and force people to work for what they choose to give them is not libertarian,this is a very modern American view of the term libertarian and people like George Orwell and Oscar Wilde believed in a type of libertarianism that actually empowered the average person rather than corporations and the rich,the choice between death or wage slavery is not voluntary,dying is not a legitimate choice. The people need to be more in control of their society so I understand hesitation about wanting our state that is funding coups in other countries to control so much of the wealth but trusting the rich who are only motivated by profit and have no real accountability is even more foolish and trusting the free market to correct it and cause corporations to act benevolently when it isn't being corrected now is a fantasy. It isn't totalitarian to not let billionaires control the lives of the average person.
@robertodellavalle7884
@robertodellavalle7884 5 жыл бұрын
@False Feathers I cant believe that still to this day there are assholes who believe in the invisible hand bullshit
@anotherangrymonkey7435
@anotherangrymonkey7435 4 жыл бұрын
We can never have a real conversation about how to bring people out of poverty when we are so focused on debating capitalism and socialism. Everyone wants to end poverty. We need to define how we are going to do this.
@Mick0722MX
@Mick0722MX 3 жыл бұрын
Easy enough. The poor should stop reproducing if they cannot raise the child properly.
@CamWorxVisuals
@CamWorxVisuals 4 жыл бұрын
A super important topic, but also exceptionally well presented.
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