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This was really beautiful. I've watched tens of documentaries and read hundreds of articles on inequality and poverty, and some ideas here are really nice. This documentary, however, does seem to be trying to appease population. We should not relax. We should be really angry. We are being taken advantage of.

" you cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking when you created them" - albert Einstein

thank you for doing these in such a high frequency and quality. outstanding, really.

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This has been given to me as an assignment

Beautiful Narration, it's calming and calculative yet harsh at the same time.

exceptional documentary! thank u for uploading

like his Jamaican accent !!!

I really like how this is set.

Yeah, this video pretty much paraphrases why don't believe real change will come from 'anyone'. Because it's not just politicians who are selfish and self-interested, it's people. It's all fine and good to go out in the street and protest against "big money" for all the stuff they do and how they live off our toil and sweat, but when someone points that same finger at us and shows us how almost everything we wear and use is made from virtual slaves in third world hell-holes our government takes pains to keep that way, there is rolling-eyes and silence. No one is going to stop shopping at Walmart because they profit personally. No one is going to stop using or buying electronics because they benefit, personally. No one is going to stop wearing clothes or using products made in such fashions because they benefit personally. Why do the rich do what they do? The same reasons we do..because we benefit from it, and we don't really give a shit about anyone else if we can get away with it.

that whispering is driving me nuts

brilliant ,simplified version of the whole structure of poverty through history ,great viewing thanku for sharing

Definition of poverty: the way that 99% of humanity has always lived throughout recorded history and pre-history.

Very good work has been put in this video. Thank you

I watched this a few years ago, I think I was 15. It really broke down a lot that I hadn't understood before, I even re-watched it with my parents. Super cool documentary. :) This is coming from an artist who get's distracted very easily, haha.

great doc, very informative!

Thanks for making this...

Ok. I'm going to thumbs up this, for education, and mild entertainment. Our system, with all its complexity, is nothing but an extrapolation of some very simple principles. The analogy I have used is that of a group on a small island. If we can break the grip of programmed thinking, we can restore the understanding of the island nation Earth. We are not here to fight and struggle, horde and steal, we are one group, sharing one island, and we are all related to one another. Can we act like it? That is the biggest threat to ANY nation, any group. And they damned well know it. It brings the paradigm that keeps them on top, tumbling down. And makes OUR lives a hell of a freak'in massively, hugely, ginormously lot better. On every front.

Better question: why wealth? Affluence is NOT the normal condition.

loving this channel, good food for thought

Nice post. It is always encouraging to see comments about a Resource-based economy. The awareness does seem to be growing and every comment like yours that points out the root cause of our problems (the for profit monetary system) and a possible solution (a Resource-based economy) is one more step toward a cultural shift.

Amazing!!!

amazing video, with its own viewpoint.. interesting to think about...hmmmmm.. Thank You very Much for putting this video up!

You ask "Why Poverty?", I ask "Why Capital?"!

I finished high school. I finished college. I got a master's degree. I learned fluent Spanish. I became computer literate. I sent out thousands of resumes. I signed up with temp agencies. I started up a dozen home businesses (all failed). I applied for any and all jobs. And what happened? I was out of work 13 of 15 years, 5 years-in-a-row and now I'm evicted from my house and impoverished - relying on medicaid, food stamps, and federal SSI. What happened!!

Great video!

I like very much this video. I saw it when I was in Strasbourg in February. The message is very important, but the way You release it is very amazing...

Great Doc!

Poverty is not hunger, or lack of accommodation or clothing or medical care. By the same token wealth is not a full fridge, comfortable home, fast car, vacation abroad now and then. Poverty is not having what others have within a given society. Wealth is having what others in the same society can only dream about. To support this thesis, imagine yourself working hard in a field and struggling to feed yourself and your family. You actually enjoy this as long as everyone else around you is in the same plight. The moment there appears someone in the society living comfortably without having to do anything useful to that society and your perception of yourself changes in an instant. You feel opressed and exploited. What makes our world miserable is not poverty, but barefaced international theft and plunder on a global scale. Stop the theft and 7 billion people become happy as so many larks and humanity as a whole is spared yet another bloody war.

Great work

So much progress, humans are amazing. I’m actually more optimistic after watching this, and far more grateful to have been born in 1988. But I also share Edvard Munch's scream whenever I watch art auctions at Christie’s and Sotheby’s taking place.

I liked the video. But, I could see on the numerous comments lots of different points of view, miraculous solutions, meritocracy, etc. I do not know what any people living in a developed country could understand, what is living in poverty. Poverty is not only not having money. Poverty is the real conditions you have for living, and the real conditions you have for evolving as an active person to the community, to the labour force, to the society. It will depend on all those conditions for you to have the perspective of having a wretched life, or a minimum prosper life. Do any of you know poverty in fact? Do you know what is living in a place without any infrastructure. Without clear water, without sanitation, without access to a good health service, no education? Seeing your kids crying for food, and you incapable of doing anything to meet the minimum needs for them? And that thought hammering in your head, "There is nothing I can do to change this now and their future is far better worse than it is now!!! Inevitably!!! Some of you just said, "I have made myself. I have studied by my own. I have created the conditions to not being poor by my means. All meritocratic bullshit! I wonder if you were born in India, Cuba, Congo or any other poor country, I mean real poor!!! You would have the same opinion. Poverty is a precondition even before you are born. If you are lucky enough to be born in a developed country, or in a under developing country but, not in the guettos, if you are born not a white person, not ill. If you survive your childhood from diseases which are eradicated in great part of the world. If, if, if, there are too many conditionals for a person to escape from poverty. Few ones have succeeded, few are really few. Take a time to know poverty if you have the chance. Talk to someone from' Doctors without Borders" or any other humanitarian organization. I know poverty, I am one of these, a poor. I live in Brazil, a country full of contrasts, where the discrepancy between rich and poor is huge. I am poor, but not the poorest in my country. I live near the rich and poor world, I see people in the minimum conditions of life. And at the same time I see wealthy people living in islands sorrounded by slum districts. I will no longer continue to comment. I just advise you to get to know poverty before speculating the solutions or opinions.

Great documentary

phenomenal

This documentary skims through a lot of history, and makes a lot of statements that are open to argument without backing them up.

Thanks for sharing 😃🇨🇴

very good film!

Really best doc I've seen in a long long time. Ty.

this was amazing

Worth watching and learning on human history...

this is awesome

Excelleent presentation.

Well said. Ideologies are not sufficient to address the problem.

This documentary is really interesting

Nice animations

Watched this for my class, good video

For some strange reason I thought this video would explain Why Poverty exist. Not the what, the who, the when or the how but the WHY!!!

Very interesting video, it makes for a great understanding on this major problem of the World's,.....poverty,....now that the reasons for its existence has been looked into here, now we need to come together and create a system to eliminate poverty, but having rich/middle class/poor benefiting from the end result,.....easier said than done but what have we to lose!

Thanks, I just watched Mr Lewis's Google v libraries doc. Commendable.

"Count your money. Keep it simple. Don't blow it".

Like the video love the Jamaican touch to it :}

Nice video. But it leaves out a very important part of western history that was key in reducing poverty. The commentators in this video all act like the reduction is a mystery and just somehow happened miraculously. But its not a mystery. The biggest factor was the rise of social reforms in the early 1900s - labor unions, new laws about work conditions and wages, rules about sanitation in rental buildings, mandatory education, and later the civil rights movement and laws against discrimination, not to mention the rise of socialist programs that provides a safety net for many people (food stamps, Social Security, medical, etc). All of those reforms had a dramatic impact in the reduction of poverty through Europe and the US. The rate of poverty among the elderly in the US was severe until 1935 with the introduction of Soc Sec which was the single biggest factor that changed that reality. Europe and Canada have been champions of socialist aid (to benefit all, not just the poor) without being communist in order to do it (such as socialized medicine and free college educations) which has had a very positive impact on those societies. This video barely broaches the topic of these social reforms, leaving a big hole in its presentation.

That was so scary to watch, but this was and is the reality for billions of people.

Absolutely, my friend

II. (continue from I.) You watched the video. Anyway, there are bit tricky questions that I want to asked: Our resources are still abundant, but why is there a poverty? Why are we competing to each other instead sharing to each other? Why are we repeating our problems and sufferings over and over again? Is our money necessary for our future of mankind?

II.[Continue on I.] In cooperation, everybody wins; while in competition, nobody wins. In other words in Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview (/watch?v=5n1p9P5ee3c&feature=youtu.be&t=1h23s) "The lack of connection between people causes all the sadness in the world. No question about it." [I will expected continue on III.]

Knowledge is power and power is money. The only way to end poverty is to invest in science and education.

nice history lesson here...

Not having money isn't the problem. It's not knowing what to do with it when you have it. That's the problem. Education is the answer

The Incas were not a "Latin American" civilization as this civilization was pre-Columbian. The Inca Empire was part of what are referred to as Andean Civilizations. Central and South America were not "latinized " until the arrival of Latin Europeans...

Mind. Blown. I loved it like anything.

i loved this episode

This does not address debt that can never be paid, as it's creation is inherent in the finical system. Why does a program addressing poverty not even allude to this structurally induced impoverization. Why not? Properganda!

: D this looks very interesting = ) the first 5 min are cool ^^ but i need to go to work now >.> i will come back to this later = )

We have a "winner" folks!!!! Bravo, bravo!!!!! (Applause) Kudos to you. Finally, we have someone who understands the root cause of poverty. Great to see people out there who can think "outside of the box". Could you kindly give your opinion of how poverty can be eliminated/eradicated forever also? I am very interested to hear your idea. Peace;-) to you.

36:03 and turn on the subtitles XD

(1 of 2) As a Indian I do struggle with the idea of poverty. Growing up in india I always wondered "How did it get so bad ?". Are we indians not hard working like the westerners who use phrases like "I worked really hard to get here". I see it in western media all the time. Lot of people blame colonialism and the new westerners give it back to colonised countries saying "Well we did not do it.You are free now". Then i came across this 20 year world economy report published by OECD (Contd ..2)

Well said! I agree completely.

Watching this documentary I finally realized that Hitchens was right when he said that religion poisons everything.

Differing perspectives on Extreme Poverty. Grist for the Mill.

A colloquial meaning of the word ignorant would be arrogant and rude which would be an accurate description of your behavior.

Other documentaries worth watching "The Corporation", John Pilger's "The War on Democracy", and "Zeitgeist Moving Forward". Some of my favorites at least

I said nothing about children not receiving their inheritances. Just because I criticized them doesn't mean the government should expropriate their parents wealth. However, we should redefine whether or not we want private corporations mining the land, drilling for oil, or doing anything that can employ the mass of people in private cooperatives.

Brilliant, i think you covered it. Our problem is the people who willfully follow the unpleasent capitalist wealthy elites, in my opinion! Like Bucky Fuller said “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” we need to work cooperatively to create a new paradigm! Thank you :D

its the perception and values we carried on how we look at poverty... poverty repeats its history...

What diminished poverty in industrialised countries? They couldn't aswer it, but the answer is quite obvious : social systems. People fought for us to have rights, workers have rights to earn a good amout of money for their work, people who don't have a job receive a small amount of money each month. The social system is the only thing that we can rely on to ensure the continuity of our system and our wealth. Technology doesn't matter if only the rich have access to it. It's really obvious.

Exactly.

Thanks Ty, yeah its funny how they completely skiped the money system in this film. I just feel when a currency has a store of value it can be corrupted by greed and hoarding (saving) which in turn allows unsavory folk to gain power over us all. But hey what do i know im not an economist lol. take it easy friend. :)

-Stivers & Slackers- I'd recommend "Drive" by Dan Pink. 40 years of scientific research into human motivation -gifted & plain- There is so much research on the affects of our environment on humans. You can specifically look into "The Abecedarian" project that tested why some children were doing better than others in school. the other issues also seem to be either structural problems or environmental problems not some inherent human condition

Maybe not, but without it, getting food to eat becomes increasingly difficult.

My AP Human geography teacher made me watch this

Can I just say...WOW. I have on hold, The Conservative Heart, by Arthur C. Brooks, at my local library. I also added another book authored by the same man. It has the title of, From Strength to Strength; as I am trying to reinvent myself at the ripe age of fifty-two.

This documentary is phenomenal! I wish I had some way to work it into my school's curriculum. Though I suppose the powers that be would find it too left...

I got an Economics degree in the 70's and still read thick Econ books every year. Economics is "the science of common sense". There's nothing mysterious about the Market, or supply and demand, or even dog eat dog and survival of the fittest. It's the way of the World. If I can hire a hundred men and women for 30 cents an hour, why would I pay them $8 an hour? If I offer a certain wage and nobody accepts I must raise that wage. It IS as simple as it sounds in 99% of the cases...

Counter-Position. Poverty is an ideal. To have this view, you have to be rich. Rich in things you know, rich in those things, that dosent cost anything, food, that comes from your garden, air, health. You may learn to build your house, about perma culture, to have enough food. You will afford Solar panels after a few holdups on tourists, who dare to disturb your peace in the hills. A gun is needed only for the guy, who tries to sell you an insurance.

Thanks. I was ill informed.

21:53 Proof of time travelling! The man is clearly talking on a cell phone to someone in the future!!!

The documentary would be more interesting, if it also investigated into the militarization of the imperialistic countries, and the drastic exploitation that took place. The two world wars that resulted and the US and Soviet fight for hegemony during the cold war also led to more wars, and the demise of even the economy of the US. If the countries in the world, rich and poor, try to reduce a few percent of their annual military budget, the world will live in greater peace and affluence.

Ending can be proceeded to a good end because there will continuously ups and down it's on you where should you stop.

People who make the "rising tide" claim are talking about absolute conditions; to point out a worsening of relative conditions is equivocation. This happens a lot in this video in varying forms.

The scarcity of the world is not time nor energy nor money but of mutual solutions. To fight poverty people must give back to sources of solutions (intellectual property), give back to teachers, give back. Money should mean that the holder has provided help and deserve to be helped back. But now people distribute money to people who could help them in the future.

Lot of discrepancies when it concerns India ,notably the fact that you pointed out about south-indian farmer with wheat and he being poor.Whilst the truth is that south India is the majority GDP earner of India ,and was even at that point of time.Even some states in South-India like kerala was pretty much developed in late 1800s but even now north india is languishing in poverty.

that sad :(

thks but the animation; I've seen it before & its about an hour but can't remember the name. ??Could someone tell me the tilte & where I can get it?

The definition of crazy.. "Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result." Humans have not and seems cannot stop the system working the way it is. Since there is (according to this documentary) " no one answer." Then it is clearly something more than what we have come up with so far. This proves that from the start, humans have never been able to solve this age old problem.. Obviously, something more is sorely needed.

You do know the best way to restart an economy is to allow all of the corruption to either leave or go bankrupt?

They'll do anything to keep us pathetic, but it keeps them down too.

Human progress for who!!