well she should have answered "thats a difficult question because if top economists and politicians havent been able to figure that out for decades and decades, how can a 20 year old in a peagant come up with a satisfactory answer?

y'all expecting her to solve poverty in 5 seconds. none of you could answer as gracefully as she did. she did fine for the question being on the spot

Even politicians can't answer this question. Poor girl

In 15 seconds or less explain quantum physics

This is what happens when we value beauty over brains

She could not answer because of the nerves I think but she did a great come back. Dont be so harsh.. she persevered.

Flub? Considering the complexity of that question, I think she did great!

As soon as she said "rich," what she really wanted to say, "I love the rich! I am the rich! Poor people damn right need to work harder!" Can't get any more air-headed than that.

Wasn't that bad. She tried her best why can't people appreciate that?

TBF, that's a deep question that most career politicians and pundits couldn't answer.

She did fine if you ask me.. She's a beauty pageant contestant, this isn't a political debate.. Should we really even be asking them questions like this? Lol.

Rich people should give all of their money to poor people, who then become rich and give all of their money to poor people. It's called circle jerk economics.

I'm not gonna lie, I don't know the awnser.

First off, I don't think she answered this question too horribly. I met her a few years back and thought she was very smart and mature and thought she was 10 years older than she really was. She has a bright future regardless of how she came across trying to answer an incredibly difficult question in 30 seconds.

She felt the pressure. Her ability to focus (like we haven't seen a professional athlete miss an opportunity) was impaired. She pulled herself together and responded coherently. It was OK. Nothing new here.

This was a really tough question. You did a great job Miss California!

I don't care about Miss USA's views, I just care about how hot shit is

irl.She was more nervous than anything else. Poor girl.

Im telling ya'll there's a middle class alright

all I got to say is she cute

And now she's going to compete for Miss Ecuador 2024. This is the one people say is a front runner for their crown. Hopefully she brushes up on her world issues and foreign affairs, so she can ace her Q&A.

Tbh are we really expecting these women to be there mentally? This is a beauty pageant for christ's sake. I really don't care what she thinks about issues anyway. Just vote for the hottest and be done with it.

Can't believe they ask this type of questions to beauty pageants. It is like asking a maths equation question to a 2 year old.

Nadia does know about the poor. She slums it with us here in a small town in Kentucky sometimes visiting her family here. And she is not on drugs! I can't believe someone would say that about such a gorgeous young lady! Believe it or not she has a tough schedule to keep up with being Miss California & getting ready for the Miss USA competition.

Wow. Get me on that stage. Deregulate so entrepreneurs can have a chance at success. Allowing for competition drives down prices, helping the poor to receive services and goods at fair rates instead of being denied services because of cost and jobs due to minimum wage/low-skill levels.

A one minute fiasco doesnt define who she is ,or how smart she is. Give her a break....geez.

How hard is it to say "make sure the rich pay their taxes"

One of the biggest problems facing the world today and you're all taking the piss because she couldn't come up with an answer on the spot. Pretty sure there's people that could be classed as genius's working to solve problems like this and they can't even find a reasonable answer. My opinion - Make high earning companies, for example google, pay a certain percentage of annual profit back to the people. Not a tax but an agreement of being able to trade in selected countries.

Even past presidents and economists were not able to narrow the gap between the rich & the poor! Lol.. How do you expect a Miss USA to solve that issue?? She got a difficult question but she answered in the best way possible. The nerves just got the best of her..

That wasn't that bad.

Awe, give her a break. There was like a zillion people watching, and her nerves got to her. It could happen to anyone of us. Much success on your career, Nadia!

Okay now internet, let's not fool ourselves and think we could answer this question with precision and detail on the spot like Miss Cali was. The amount of pressure mixed with only seconds of thinking is enough to give anyone a brain fart. She handled herself well, if you ask me.

I think she did a really good job with the difficult answer with only seconds to think.

Some people have been complaining about the question; other people have been complaining about the answer. I don't think the question was unfair at all and I thought her answer, once she got past the brain-freeze moment, was perfectly adequate. Rich should be more giving; the poor should work hard, etc. Okay. The time gap in her answer does nothing to negate the reasonable response she provided. She did just fine, IMHO.

What is the name of the background music?

The rich need to pay their fair share in American taxes and create opportunities for Americans instead of shipping jobs overseas where they can hire someone to work for pennies on the dollar and setting up subsidiaries in tax havens. We need to force corporations to repatriate the money and bring it back to the U.S. In addition, we need to continue to offer government assistance to those that desperately need it until better and more long-term options become available. Thank you.

She did a good job!!

This is much less terrible than what I expected. The media severely exaggerated her 'stupidity'. This is basically what anyone with no interest in economics and under huge stress would've done.

She deserve noble price of the eco

This reminded me of Miss South Carolina's meltdown at the 2007 Miss Teen USA pageant.

At least she's right about the poor needing to work harder

The way people are carrying on, you would think the question was: “Ernst Haeckel, the great biologist, was famous for coining the phrase ‘Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.’ Do you agree with Dr. Haeckel? Does Ontogeny really recapitulate phylogeny?"

Why do they ask these questions, like they ask questions economists can't answer, politicians can't answer ect

she gave an answer for a tough question than politicians can't solve. why beauty pageants get asked this type of questions that should be asked to politicians?

She wasn't readyyy !

She answered the question very well.

tbh that wasn't as bad as i expected it to be

Judge: "Miss California, with out thinking what's one thing in the world you want? California: "Uh....More time for thinking!"

- Isn't this just Monty Python's "Summarize Proust in Under a Minute" sketch?

why would they ask her a question like this when its a beauty competition? most grown adults with jobs wouldn't know

as the airs leaks from her head

I Would have said some shit like 'to bridge the economic gap between the rich and the poor, we could work to improve our education system in order to give greater opertunity to those with less money to achieve higher earning jobs'

watching this was more painful than child birth

My answer: The first thing that needs to be done is not an act, but an avoidance of action. When people talk of welfare in this country, they usually refer to welfare directed at the poor, all the while ignoring the much greater quantity of government aid that is given to the wealthy. Not only this, but the aid given to the wealthy tends to allow the wealthy to make more money, whereas aid given to the poor tends to allow them to tread water at best.

she couldve started a revolution with the right words

No entendí nada, alguien lo puede decir en español porfa... gracias.

Wooooooooooooow !!!!!!!!!

I think the upper class should give back money... The poor should work hard... *deep breath* AND WE REDISTRIBUTE THE WEALTH TO CREATE A COMMUNIST STATE WOO

great answer!!!

not even politicins in so much time know the answer

All she had to mention was something involving resources and accessibility thereto. Obviously there's only enough time to paint the broadest stroke, but that would have been perfectly sufficient. Poor gal. Eh, the Germans have a word for the feeling watching this induced. It's called "fremdscham" and it's coursing through me right now.

I get the problem. People thought that the pageant questions were really dumb and girly, so they adjusted to the opposite extreme. It's really hard to find a happy medium with this.

This get me everytime 😂😂. Love to watch this just for laughs. She should have won with just her charisma alone.

This was an odd question, a serious one, but an odd one. She answered alright, as getting hit with something so serious out of nowhere. I mean, we could create a middle class since we no longer have one. Real family median income has dropped from $50,000 annually to $35,000, which was what it was in the 90's, yet college tuition has risen about 500% since then... I know my mother was making $22.50 an hour in 2005 and makes $9.75 an hour now (Over 10 years later) doing the same thing. Her previous job was outsourced to India, and another job was created to correct the mistakes by the previous job. She went to college and got her degree to do what she does as a Medical Transcript Editor. The job market is literally forcing people into poverty. If you plan on going to college to say become a doctor, or a surgeon, something that pays well, your going to be paying back student loans for half a lifetime. Average cost to become a physician all in all is about 1,000,00.00. 1 Million dollars. You'll be paying student loans for about 30 years, they could adjust them whenever they choose, and if the cost of tuition of your school rises, it tacks onto what you already owe, and if you don't pay the loans, they garnish your wages. They punish you for seeking a higher education, and then punish you after you receive your degree and start earning a decent living. It's not right. The price is just too damn high. People say "People who are poor, are poor because of the choices they make, they're lazy and do not want to work." This is simply not true. My parents are poor. Didn't use to be. My father got cancer, currently in remission, but he could not work, lost his job, and my mothers job was outsourced. So our median income dropped, then the recession hit... That's when the new income pivoted to the top. Everyone was scraping to get by, gas prices soared, this mainly affected low income individuals. Keep in mind, that low income is someone making 12k a year, which is low. But look at the poverty threshold. I don't know any one person who can live off $12,000 a year, pay for housing, schooling, car payments/insurance, cell phone bill, and groceries, as well as necessities, say you have a pet, doctors bills, or for an emergency. People will say "Don't have a pet, buy a used car upfront, (for what $4,000? That's almost half of the money you made that year. Get real.) But this is the reality for many people. And they have found that the most individuals earning minimum wage worker is 35 years old... Over 26% of our workforce makes under $10.50 an hour. I don't know a single person who could truly live off of that wage, regardless of how much overtime they work. The funny thing is that the minimum wage was established by Democratic Socialist president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to get people out of poverty. By establishing a wage high enough to live well, because corporations were exploiting individuals in harsh work conditions with limitless hours of work. That is also why he established a 40 hour work week, and introduced the first child labor laws. And with this, we got out of the great depression. We established the food-stamp act that gave many families the right to healthy foods and to leave them with money to put back into the economy. He served 4 terms as president, until lobbyists passed legislation limiting presidents to two terms... He served as president for 16 years... Voted by the people.

I think she was just trying to find a different way of answering that dumb question that we all know the obvious answer to.

Did anyone else spot the moment when her brain actually exploded?

Still do t know why they ask them questions. The entire competition is based around which ones the hottest.

Yes! Ask models significant society questions...

When she mummbled Oh my god, I thought dhe would run off stage or something. So painfull to watch.

This isn't a contest of brains of the brains. Why would you show someone who has no aptitude on this question even respond to it? if you're gonna ask a serious question like that give it to someone who'll be able to do it justice and the peoe justice.

"Viva Ecuador"... good thing you went home

Should have asked where is the nearest Starbucks is and if she could ask Siri

She did fine, other than the poor needing to work harder...I'd just stare at them for a moment and then say "well for starters, we don't have these fucking superfluous contests that cost buckets of money and then maybe we'd be getting somewhere". That's just me

Why are we asking irrelevant questions in a beauty pageant?

She should have said to narrow the gap we need to start with parenting and second proper education.

NGL I wouldn't know what to say...

Increase taxes on the rich (Luxury goods tax, mansion tax, inheritance tax, etc.), increase minimum wage, and set up unconditional basic income.

If governments across the globe filled with highly educated politicians can't answer that question then how the fuck can someone at a beauty pageant answer that?

too tough to answer, great job miss california...

My answer would have been, “I think the rich need to be taxed more, and we need to increase minimum wage so that way poverty levels decrease. Another thing that would really help reduce poverty would be to make college free, that way it can be easier for people to obtain an education and degree.” Now who wants me as president in 2024?

She did ok

The simple answer would be "more jobs"

and world peace

para mi tiene la rason una aplauso por

To be fair it was a pretty tough question, this is no where near to the level of miss teen usa's fail

Well that's not fair. Anyone will have difficulty answering this question when asked on the spot, without any indication that there would be a question regarding this on a beauty pageant. I also fail to see how her opinion will influence the issue in any way. Oh right, it won't. The question doesn't fit the pageant. But for the record, I'll say sure. It would be nice for the rich to give a little more, for the poor to work hard (if they're not already), and for the middle-class to unify against the greedy 1% and government.

I still prefer the Miss South Carolina disaster... Now THAT was unbeatable.

people will talk about the video but not realise shes miss calafornia, how the fuck seen way more better looking girls

Equality is a nice concept but it simply can't work

We are only humans

THE ANSWER FOR THAT QUESTION IS THAT: YOU CANNOT NARROW THE GAP... THERES NO WAY... IT WILL NEVER BE. Unless the rich will share half of their annual income to the poor... But then there are negative outcomes into this. Plus i dont think the rich qoll just give their income to the poor. Maybe a couple of thousands. So yeah you cant!

Well these people don't get into this competition due to intelligence...

Maybe they just need maps and such as?

Also her brains goes ... Rich ... I know this. Poor? they serve my coffee at Starbucks. Middle class mmmm wait must be something like ummmm, wow this is hard, is this a trick question?

hmm brains and beauty i choose beauty

🎵 if I only had a brain🎵

So because I'm not rich I don't work hard? Hmmmmm. I understand she was under pressure but...

It there a point to asking these types of questions? I thought they were chosen for their looks not brains?

celebrity's daughter has no idea about the poor.. tough questions all around she did good over-all

Poor baby! Why do they poke at the beautiful babies?!? They just need to be pretty and nice, dammit!!!