Social workers see the $ part because social workers are fundamentally bureaucrats who are in charge of dispensing $ or $ equivalents. Poverty is NOT about $. Poverty is about lifestyles/independence. This TED talk was not even about USA poverty. It was about unmet medical needs and the consequences of a natural disaster. USA gov provides housing vouchers to lower the medical cists to Medicare & Medicaid. USA gov provides food stamps to lower the shoplifting rates to grocery stores. USA gov provides AFDC to lower the number of women who turn to prostitution to support their children. These programs exist in the USA to further the interests if affluent voters. Read the history of American education. Poor and working class children were constrained almost simultaneously by labor laws and mandatory school attendance laws put in place to expell children from factories in which their presence broke expensive & hard ti replace machines. Property owners demanded that the children not be turned out onto the public streets unsupervised where they were expected to vandalize property. The American ed system was reorganized in the 1800s specifically to babysit non-affluent children. NOBODY even knew if they were capable of benefiting from education to the age of 14! A person willing yo beg can support themselves. Beggars themselves report this to me. 70% of American poverty cannot be eliminated except through government action because 70% of the American impoverished are minors, the disabled, and the frail elderly. Most of the remaining 30% are their caregivers, felons, and addicts. Those unwilling or unable to beg or work are those who need $ or $ equivalents provided to them. Lots if young people are now falling between the cracks because they have not been taught how to work, nor how to seek employment successfully. Only 50% of adults has stepped foot into a college classroom despite college student placement offices being the PRIMARY source of job hunt training in the USA. The single most valuable asset gained in 1 term in college is access to the student placement office! Not only do they train; some employers list jobs nowhere else! At all! Remove from the job market all jobs that are only listed with colleges and trade schools, and the results are amazing reduced. No poverty is not mostly about $. It is mostly about intergenerational family social & other resources. 70% of outcomes for foster children are negative outcomes. They tend not to have roots that supply job recommendations. They tend not to have a housing back up plan. As a social worker, you cannot solve poverty by hiding it with housing vouchers and food stamps--as vital as those programs are to your service populations. You need access to more, not less. Your own training programs don't even teach what else is needed. There us a national shortage of lifeguards. Does every able bodied child who has a social worker get told the children can pay their own way through good colleges working part-time as a lifeguard while living in a modified, used cargo van? Do all those children get told to report early to the student placement office for career seeking skill training? No. Why not? Because social worker degree programs are NOT about creating economically independent children. College lifeguards average $18 to $24/hr. Senior citizens are getting hired as community lifeguard because young people ARE NOT EVEN APPLYING. Information and intelligence and health are more vital than $ ! The only 2 aspects of my 14 years of excellent university training that have stood the test if time and stood up in the face if cultural lies are 1) research skills and 2) communication skills. Rarely do the poor get the information they need because people believe the myth that the poor mostly need $. Food housing and medical care still leave them poor.

If you want a continual flow of money, you need to have a job

​@@tarotofhappiness8402 On a logistical nation-sized scale, I agree with your sentiment. However, it ignores the fact that most people are just born to lose. They're not smart, they're not willful, they're not fighters and regardless of hardships or silver spoons, the outcome will always be the same-- they will exist, not thrive. I was one of those "foster children'. I run my own private equity firm, now. I'm the only employee, but if you looked at the budget, you'd think it was an entire trading group. I went from homeless to rich in under a decade. It wasn't "luck". I simply am a warrior. I got sick of life telling me how things are going to be and I started telling life how it's going to be. I had nothing to lose and everything to gain. I sacrificed my fake family and fake friends. I destroyed all the middle class and defeatist propaganda I was fed for the first couple decades of my life. I sacrificed my credit rating and even some of my sanity. Get rich or die trying. So now I'm a success. I have a long-lasting relationship and a fully stocked bomb shelter. If a nuclear war happened, I would be annoyed that the internet is gone. That'd be my main complaint.

@@manictiger I am so glad you have succeeded, & I hope you are happy, too. At the age of 11, I wanted a college degree, 5 different changes of weekday clothes, & to be a writer. I became a tenured, university professor, have a nice wardrobe, & have published 13 books. I believe many people believe they have been taught lots of social lies, but they cannot see through the lies to find strategies that work. I am sooooo glad you found strategies to accomplish your goals. Still, real estate development as it is being done now does not favor the over 800,000 homeless in America, nor the 100,000 more who become homeless every year now. Prior to germ theory and anti-biotics, most such died--or were killed off by invading armies. I sincerely hope you are able to continue your successes and have a long & happy life. I am changing my channel to interact with those who enjoy exploring symbols & the subconscious. I might change my channel several more times while I'm waiting to move back to the West Coast. Best Wishes.

​@@tarotofhappiness8402 Best wishes to you, too. Yeah, it's funny the things we wished for when we were younger. I used to have huge visions. I wanted to make luxury mega-structures, self-sustaining space stations, etc. Had all sorts of Elon Musk-like ideas before he was even known to anyone. But, Idk. Elon got there and I didn't. But I live a nice life. My only real regret is that I didn't start my business sooner.

Sometimes a person's only flaw is being unlucky.

@@mhuh you're right, I know someone like that, my girlfriend.

Thank you Jennifer that such an important statement. I'm finally coming to terms with my own biases and what's holding me back from helping others. It is a very humbling mental and spiritual exercise, but I'm glad that i'm aware of it.

Jennifer Gibbs perfectly stated!

electronicbits : You pointed rightly. I have also seen "lack of cash".

Seems they allow more than one perspective on their platform.

TEDx talks are the pointlessly subjective talks. OG TED talks were legit

It's a matter of perspective. Ted is platform for people to share their ideas. Different people shares different perspectives.

It is the structures themselves that perpetuate poverty.

Excellent, Flex!

Youre correct. Then he starts raving about his text and ph going on. He has no idea what it is to be in really reduced circumstances.... It seems it doesnt take much in the US .

Its not just a mindset it's also high paying jobs out there literally discriminate against people who don't have a college degree, have terrible credit or worse no credit at all. Im working poor too if i wanted to double or triple my income with my current job i would have to move to a big city but i have a house tieing me down to my town, and a family that doesn't want to get uprooted either.

I know. You're right... But, if you're some-kind of tradesman, that won't matter.. I'm only a G.E.D. educated man. But, my trade has a way of seeing through their garb, giving me greater possibilities. Hey, if you're good at what you do, then make money!

this is so true. If you look at the systemic barriers that are in place. Fear is also a major step back. in some cases if someone accepts a sandwich sometimes things were expected from them OR the reliability factor. If I accept this I may slip back into taking handouts for survival. So many factors. Good on you for recognizing.

Thank you 🙅🙌🙌

He is definitely one of the nicest, most genuine people ever to play. He could have won the game, but he valued his integrity more than a million dollars. It was painful to watch him quit, but I understand why he did it.

Kurtis C. Absolutely. Ian is one of my all time favorite Survivor characters, and the moment he quit is one of the best character moments on the show imo. For him and for Tom.

Nauseated. This makes me sick.

I agree; You can also be evicted from housing a lot easier if you earn less (or no) money, then if you earn more money, especially in cities where in effect everyone pays rent (e.g. property taxes and utilities even if you own the home); those costs are not someone controls but they are "new" (on the scale of history and human development), often unseen, threats to shelter and all of the other basics. Even worse, people and institutions which appear to be prosperous are often just exploiting bubbles of unbacked credit and giving the false impression that value creation and finance are well aligned, and that the problems are a lack of effort, rather than a lack of opportunity and effective financial education.

Having watched to the end, though, even in that example, money was important.. $250 for the license, and a paying customer ... all needed for that "dignity" he sought. I would say that the money alone is not enough, but it is still important.

Nope, plenty of poor people have saved their way out of poverty (including myself)

Tony Robbins says +Adrian Metcalf people don't lack resources, they lack resourcefulness.

And myself.

Technology is more available than ever before. Poverty is about money.

Thank you for saving me 15 minutes

@T South so its not about cash then? Its about doing?

Most poverty has nothing to with misfortune, it has to do with unvirtuous behavior.

Says who? Where is the data for this affirmation?

@@garybsg no it doesn't.

Why did you assume he is rich?

Because he owns shoes for a start. That by definition makes him "rich" on a worldwide standard. Then there is the fact that he is an American with a job and probably college educated, oh yeah, and he is speaking on TEDx. I'm sure I could come up with a dozen more reasons for identifying him as rich, but hopefully you get the point. I disagree with Eric that being "a rich kid from Pittsburgh" disqualifies his view. As a previous poster said, "at least he is getting off the couch and doing something".

Eric McCauley I know Ian personally. He is one of the most humble people I know and has done incredible things.

He helps people who do you help

John Rothgeb: The whole point is that "things" don't define wealth or poverty, "behavior" does.

William Kiene Not that govts are ineffective, just not doing what we hired them to do.They /it has become autonomous and self serving.

I don't think that lack of opportunity is the main problem here or related to some sort of corruption in society...the main problem is the person, if a person stops believing to achieve something than it will be resulted to poverty...it always comes in character.

You either raised your daughters in decades past or you are completely full of s***

Thank you 🙌🙌🙅

We push people who are already at risk down way too hard. Meanwhile, we have the wealthy corporations on welfare and we can't give them enough.

Don't forget we create poverty too! Do You think the syrian, afghanis, iraqis who had their towns demolished in airstrikes really like being homeless and having life, home and business destroyed....

*the real economical crisis is kerosenian economics...)* anyway, that aside, we have dealt with the(se) issue(s). The problem is we can't fund unproductive activity! However, I can guarantee that there must be some solution that is "better than welfare" maybe Learn Liberty or Foundation for Economic Education has the answer; usually, they do. I thank God that they exist...

Its a good point, and his talk is certainly simplistic. Also I'm not sure that putting a dangerously incompetent driver on the road helps anyone. That said his work is probably doing some good - it's hard to argue with getting a kid the healthcare they otherwise could not access.

In that way, employment is restricted to the affluent. The cultural problem is that affluence is defined as a display of competence when in actuality affluence is a display of selfishness.

It won't ever, until the whole country crashes down. I'm with you, the only difference I'm realistic. Good luck with your plans.

Jenni Raisovna we can together so tell friends and family then tell them to tell friends and family. We can as we.

What do we do on Jan 25th to end the fedReserve?

Believe and talk to friends families and anyone you can. You convince them that the Federal Reserve is a gang of banks extorting their money for a promise not to be imprisoned. A task this large doesn't start with action it starts by changing the minds of the many so that the few will follow.

Sour DarmY I understand, but family doesn't care and my friends survive so that they are not ready for fighting this system.