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Dignity isn’t a privilege. It’s a worker’s right | Abigail Disney
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. What’s the purpose of a company? In this bold talk, activist and filmmaker Abigail Disney imagines a world where companies have a moral obligation to place their workers above shareholders, calling on Disney (and all corporations) to offer respect,…
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Zamborak
September 22, 2020 at 6:17 pm
کاسه مشت شیاطین Devil’s PunchBowl
Zenn Exile
September 22, 2020 at 6:33 pm
Yes, because only through work, can anyone truly, and physically, be free. You have the right to work for a handful of wealthy psychopaths who hoard all the wealth and resources for themselves, living that advanced technologically supported life we’re all told they are building for everyone. Only to find out they are building it for everyone, who is also rich like them. Or you can go to jail and help another handful of wealthy psychopaths turn your incarceration into profit. And the most freeing part is, your tax dollars fund both sides of this coin. Almost entirely. We build all the infrastructure, subsidize the organizations, supply them, staff them, build and develop them, supply all their utilities. We even pay for the Research and Development of technologies that are then sold back to us resale at sometimes 5000% markups.
A worker has no rights, no representation, and soon no purpose. They took everything we had, and now they are using the technology you bought and paid to develop, to replace you.
ThatOneGirl
September 22, 2020 at 6:54 pm
Yes and NOW workers even get to pay for their $80,000 student SLAVERY debt (like I have!), JUST so they can teach themselves the corporations’ jobs BEFORE they even GET a job!! Hahaha america is so fucking SICK.
Stephanie Elizabeth Mann
September 22, 2020 at 6:48 pm
The first step to having a community where people matter and workers are treated fairly is a minimum wage. A wage that’s set at a level that allows a worker to meet all the I needs a few wants and some savings. Less than that and you may as well call the worker a slave.
GIL
September 22, 2020 at 7:02 pm
The company I work for won’t hire me as an employee to avoid workman’s comp insurance, employee taxes, liability insurance and benefits. They control how much money I make, who I can work for and when and where I can work. I cant use them as a reference to find other work because they deny I am an employee. I am an independent contractor. An independent contractor who doesn’t make enough money to afford health insurance, liability insurance, or even enough money to cover my rent at times. Finding another job, they want to know who I have been working for or what I have been doing during the gap of employment. I explain there is no gap but cant prove it because there are no usable refferences.
Peter Mapp
September 23, 2020 at 1:20 am
Reply to Gil…is your scenario an isolated incident or is it widespread ?
Goy Goddess 2
September 22, 2020 at 7:06 pm
Disney animation is full of sexual degeneracy, perversion, and it hypersexualizes young children. Here is just one of many compilation videos exposing it.
Skylar Nance
September 22, 2020 at 7:09 pm
Dignity is something you yourself build. It’s not given. You can’t sit around expect to just have dignity. You have to do things that you deem dignified and hold yourself to that standard. If you are unhappy. Then you are not holding yourself to a standard you deem worthy. Raise your standard of self and act accordingly.
Michał Hapunik
September 22, 2020 at 7:11 pm
Comunism warning
Goy Goddess 2
September 22, 2020 at 7:15 pm
Dignity is a mental construct. You may have self dignity or regard others with dignity. It is NOT however, something you can force others to abide by or obey. Most of these new issues being pushed in society today by the SJWs amount to nothing less than thought control and censorship!
Timothy Smith
September 22, 2020 at 7:17 pm
Dignity is something you create for yourself. Nobody can give it to you. People can be mean. Since when in all of human history has that not been true? It has nothing to do with how people treat you or think of you. It has everything to do with how you treat yourself, and how you treat others, no matter your circumstances in life.
Some 2000 years ago, Epictetus was a slave. But because of how he lived his life, he was, and still is, held in as high regard as Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome.
Because the progress we’ve made since then, people have had the luxury to become soft and overly sensitive towards everything. People have been raised to believe that the world should be free of suffering, to externalize their problems, instead of being taught how free themselves of their own ignorance. People speak volumes of social progress, but fail to realize it is their own individual progress in life which creates it.
“Whatsoever misfortunes there are here in this world or in the next, they all have their root in Ignorance, and in the accumulation of longing and desire.” — Buddha
“Yes, keep on degrading yourself, your soul. But soon your chance at dignity will be gone. Everyone gets one life. Yours is almost used up, and instead of treating yourself with respect, you have entrusted your own happiness to the souls of others.” – Marcus Aurelius
babynatoor
September 22, 2020 at 7:30 pm
First sentence of the German Constitution:
“Human dignity is inviolable”
Sergei Bosyk
September 22, 2020 at 7:32 pm
Just a bunch of unquantafiable and undefined virtue signaling. How do you measure dignity? How much is a “living” wage? There will always be relative differences between individuals` standards of living – that`s how the world works whether you like it or not. You can’t change it unless you want to make everyone equally poor. The absolute standard of living, however, has been exploding over recent years. The global poverty rate has been HALVED in just 20 years! And America wasn’t even counted because it is one the wealthiest country in the world (precisely because it has a business oriented market). So what are you advocating for exactly? You’re fighting windmills.
pavelow235
September 22, 2020 at 7:48 pm
Not a living wage issue, this a financial choice issue.
Wealth =/= salary
Iceninekills19
September 22, 2020 at 7:51 pm
I imagine a General Strike
Bob Frog
September 22, 2020 at 8:01 pm
Nonsense. Dignity comes from within, no one can “give” you dignity.
Earth Angel
September 22, 2020 at 8:21 pm
being sextrafficked is not a job
just forget i seys go awe
September 22, 2020 at 8:26 pm
What do you think about balgramm ted ?!!
Weltfenos
September 22, 2020 at 8:42 pm
Try telling that to the co worker jerk who restarted my depression
Wadeo Johnson
September 22, 2020 at 9:02 pm
I don’t know how I feel about this. Although I agree with a lot of what she says. It’s just that it’s coming out of the mouth of a VERY privileged person.
Tim Jones
September 23, 2020 at 12:13 am
Jiminy Cricket was whispering in her earl
Matthew Golden
September 22, 2020 at 9:02 pm
So nice to hear. Now if more would listen.
Fred Dobbs
September 22, 2020 at 9:39 pm
Oh no! All the snowflakes are gonna melt! Quick everyone, call your elected officials, so they can come over to your house tonight and tuck you into bed! Make sure they check your rooms for monsters hiding in the closet, which makes sense because now that so many of you have come out of there, the monsters have lots of space to camp out.
George Kataftos
September 22, 2020 at 10:48 pm
🍕 🍕 🍕 🍕 🍕 🍕 Pizzagate!!! Ovcourse Walt Disney granddaughter has a Pedophilia tattoo on her foot 🦶
Jo Bassett
September 22, 2020 at 10:58 pm
This is a good explanation as to why I hate the Disney Corporation and will not give a single penny to them.
EighteenXVIII
September 22, 2020 at 11:04 pm
It’s true that there are many poorly paid, low skilled jobs. Most people fortunately do not stay in those jobs for very long and they’re crucial for beginners to save some money, acquire a work ethic and soft skills. It’s not a perfect world and it never will be. But living standards do improve the fastest in a free market system. So does inequality, but at least mostly everyone improves.
Minimum wage helps some workers at the expense of less skilled workers, and it kills businesses that can’t afford to pay it, therefore losing people jobs. Respect is nice, but it doesn’t pay the bills for those in poor socialist countries. Personally I am in favor of Friedman’s (the man you disagreed with) proposal of a negative income tax replacing all welfare. The advantage of that policy is that working more always pays off, it doesn’t hurt businesses and it alleviates one of the root problems in society, poverty. And it does it in a way that doesn’t encourage chronic independence like welfare programs do now.
The thing is these speeches sound convincing because they appeal to emotion. But people like Friedman are giants in the field of economics and they have mountains of scientific rigor backing them up. The facts are not always pleasant to the ear, but ignoring them is very costly.
EighteenXVIII
September 22, 2020 at 11:04 pm
It’s true that there are many poorly paid, low skilled jobs. Most people fortunately do not stay in those jobs for very long and they’re crucial for beginners to save some money, acquire a work ethic and soft skills. It’s not a perfect world and it never will be. But living standards do improve the fastest in a free market system. So does inequality, but at least mostly everyone improves.
Minimum wage helps some workers at the expense of less skilled workers, and it kills businesses that can’t afford to pay it, therefore losing people jobs. Respect is nice, but it doesn’t pay the bills for those in poor socialist countries. Personally I am in favor of Friedman’s (the man you disagreed with) proposal of a negative income tax replacing all welfare. The advantage of that policy is that working more always pays off, it doesn’t hurt businesses and it alleviates one of the root problems in society, poverty. And it does it in a way that doesn’t encourage chronic dependence like welfare programs do now.
The thing is these speeches sound convincing because they appeal to emotion. But people like Friedman are giants in the field of economics and they have mountains of scientific rigor backing them up. The facts are not always pleasant to the ear, but ignoring them is very costly.
Ceren esen
September 22, 2020 at 11:21 pm
I want to learn English, does this channel help?
Startup Funding Event Global
September 23, 2020 at 12:21 am
How times have changed.. back then working in Disneyland was not considered a gig
kermit girl
September 23, 2020 at 1:54 am
What a hypocrite
Navdeep Singh
September 23, 2020 at 3:30 am
Bearly Listening
September 23, 2020 at 4:38 am
Dignity isn’t a right or a privilege. It’s a state of mind.
Phyllobates Terribilis
September 23, 2020 at 4:54 am
Didn’t watch it but the speaker obviously doesn’t know the difference between a right and a responsibility – like most leftists.
nonreligionist
September 23, 2020 at 6:51 am
*climate change
Sorry, was the only criticism I could come up with
Mazza Marouf
September 23, 2020 at 7:23 am
Hats off 🌷
No matter how much i adore disney and how i truly consider my self being raised by the wonderful ethics deisny creative team enlightened us with , and although i realize that the creative team is different than the business/sales one who is running disney land , but i simply can’t ignore the complaints of a lot of hard working employees who reported working in disney land while they can’t even pay rent and living in their cars, there is a hole documentary made of them, THAT IS NOT DIGNITY, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
pirotizing profit of the well to do share holders over the Working class to the degree that deny them digity living is a stupid short term vision economic strategy as those middle class majority working for the wealthy share holders are actually their main customers , and if those costomers can’t afford basic dignified living then of course they wont splurge on luxuries.
to manage business owners greed and return stability to society profit should be caped by higher taxes ( who needs 20 million $ million if you can live with 5 million $ ) and so what if a huge American business lost a bit of profit if 10 American local small businesses got the chance to open creating a more secure stable local economy.
Mazza Marouf
September 23, 2020 at 7:23 am
pirotizing profit of the well to do share holders over the Working class to the degree that deny them digity living is a stupid short term vision economic strategy as those middle class majority working for the wealthy share holders are actually their main customers , and if those costomers can’t afford basic dignified living then of course they wont splurge on luxuries.
to manage business owners greed and return stability to society profit should be caped by higher taxes ( who needs 20 million $ million if you can live with 5 million $ ) and so what if a huge American business lost a bit of profit if 10 American local small businesses got the chance to open creating a more secure stable local economy.
EighteenXVIII
September 23, 2020 at 8:19 am
It’s worth the disclaimer that she got her information from a union office in Anaheim, and the Walt Disney company disagrees with everything she says: “A spokesperson previously told MarketWatch that the company offers a starting minimum wage of $15 an hour, as well as free education opportunities, and health-care benefits for hourly workers starting at $6 a week. Hourly workers at the Orlando and Anaheim parks make an average of $19.50 an hour. Its Disney Aspire initiative also covers 100% of all tuition costs, books and fees so our hourly workers can pursue higher education for free, and without falling into student loan debt”.
I can’t be bothered to fact-check this, but clearly both people can’t be speaking the truth.
Danculea Lacramioara
September 23, 2020 at 8:28 am
Eu ridic gunoiul multor oameni,e bine cate odată să muncești neplătit,..
Aylbdr Madison
September 23, 2020 at 9:28 am
What made America good, why it’s not so good anymore, and what caused the change.
Thank you for your insight Abigail. ^-^
RantKid
September 23, 2020 at 10:00 am
Lol dislikes be like “it’s my American right to mentally abuse my coworkers!”
Hayes Dusty
September 23, 2020 at 10:14 am
1:25 So funny
The_ Ria
September 23, 2020 at 11:06 am
This whole speech just doesn’t sit right with me. We all know that workers should be respected and treated fairly, we all know that the system is broken. Why would you say the obvious thing to the people who are working at these jobs? Say it at bord meetings, to the executives and the people who can actually make a change.
Disney is a deeply flawed company with a lot of questionable things they did in the past. But I do believe they can strive to be better, more diverse, more inclusive and fair. It takes work, mainly work from the inside out. Preaching to the audience won’t fix anything unfortunately
Shirley Shantel
September 23, 2020 at 2:15 pm
A really powerful message. Thank you. May we revive the MAGIC as we come together as a collective, to cocreate the future we wish for ourselves.
Adana Namae
September 23, 2020 at 2:45 pm
Great title caught my eye.
AhmedSalim Sherllalah
September 23, 2020 at 4:12 pm
remember womxn ted x is actually the biggest fucking disappointment like legit no one needed this
Francisco Galindo Jr.
September 23, 2020 at 6:23 pm
Jiminy Cricket has been unjustly convicted and caged next to the Carrion River, because of Pinocchio.
I am fighting with all my might to help our children and Geppeto, Fairy Godmother.
But only you can make the humble wizard’s wand magic.
🌐💝🙏
Taghreed Ossama
September 23, 2020 at 8:28 pm
❤️❤️❤️❤️
Big Dee
September 23, 2020 at 8:38 pm
Close your legs
Arcux
September 23, 2020 at 11:13 pm
Dignity is an intrinsic (coming from self) characteristic….so if you lack dignity, you have only yourself to blame.
Fernando Crustacean
September 24, 2020 at 2:59 am
Maybe you should pay employees of Disneyland and Disneyworld a living wage instead of doing this weird Ted talk.
Claudia Manfredini
September 26, 2020 at 12:53 pm
That’s exactly what she’s saying.
Fernando Crustacean
September 26, 2020 at 6:04 pm
@Claudia Manfredini saying is different than doing
Yang Chun
September 24, 2020 at 3:22 am
Dignity should not be given but earned by yourself.
Claudia Manfredini
September 26, 2020 at 12:56 pm
Dignity IS a fundamental human right, you moron. You don’t “deserve” dignity, you already have it because you’re a human being. What you need is for that dignity to be acknowledged by other human beings, something you can’t obviously do.
Ai Fan
September 24, 2020 at 9:02 am
This talk is historical.
John
September 24, 2020 at 12:51 pm
A while ago I read an article on the basic error inherent in the behaviour of all companies; they are, as Abigale said, run just for the benefit of the shareholders. But the shareholders are far from the only people involved.
If the term “shareholder” is exchanged for “stakeholder” it seems that a step can be taken to find a bit of balance. Of course the workers have a stake in the performance of a company they work for. So do those that buy it’s products and services. It is quite usual to be in the interests of the buyers that the company succeed in order to maintain the product.
That change then does imply a role for a workers’ representative on the board of directors. The change in terminology also includes purchasers. We are all purchasers of both goods and services like Disneyland, yet how few are the companies that respond to us even with respect! In that way Disneyland is better than most.
Including all stakeholders implies a bigger role for management to really listen to those that make and buy the product. It is no longer adequate to have a suggestion box in the factory, or for the simplistic “focus groups” approach to matching products to needs – and I have seen how badly those focus groups work anyway.
When a company asks me to fill in a feedback form associated with a new product purchase, I fill it in. As a person who was taught to design surveys, I have never seen one that would get a pass in any of the classes I took. I also have never received any acknowledgement that my product feedback has been read, let alone valued. So if the company that made the product does not value and respect me as a thinking buyer, should I feel that the workers in that company are worthy of respect? I myself do treat those I interact with with respect. But I have experienced many people who seem to have no respect for anyone they interact with, and that has to be addressed. Maybe by starting with companies expressing genuine interest in their customers.
This is of course not a universal criticism. Companies can be found with the full range of approaches to their workers, and clients. The ones I go back to are those that treat me as more than a walking credit card.
SuperKami
September 24, 2020 at 4:10 pm
It’s difficult to agree with anything this channel publishes when it’s anti-free speech. stop censoring comments and then maybe we can talk.
Invox
September 25, 2020 at 1:58 pm
Disney (cretor of Mickey Mouse) mistreated his animators, and even now Disney´s (company) business policies and disregard for employees rights all over the globe is shameful… Like someone said: “Doing good in the millions, while doing harm in the billions”. This is hipocrisy on a whole new level.
ITouchTheSky 8GladysWorld8
September 26, 2020 at 4:46 pm
Excellent talk and topic. I hope one day, all companies will think more for their workers.
RussianThunderrr
September 26, 2020 at 6:35 pm
Thank you!
B Welkinator
September 27, 2020 at 1:17 am
Such garbage from a non-earner living off the work of her fore-bearers. Now denigrating the very system which gives her this platform. Can’t fault TED though; this fits right into their Burn It All Down mind set.
Courageous
September 28, 2020 at 12:50 am
You don’t say specifically what workers don’t make enough to put food on the table. Most of those jobs are for high school or college students. Painters and janitors are unskilled labor. Is this the same argument that says the adults working menial jobs at McDonalds should make enough to support a family? There are jobs that will only earn a minimum wage, and these type jobs aren’t intended to support an entire family.
J Loh
September 30, 2020 at 4:12 pm
That is EXACTLY what a minimum wage job is meant to do. It is the opportunity for unskilled labor workers to live and support themselves and their loved ones in the case higher education isn’t an option or just not their interest. It’s that while standard of living, rent, utilities, and bare minimums of necessities have steadily increased since the FUCKING 70s, the minimum wage has barely risen
i started my first job as a dishwasher in 2006 when minimum wage was $5.15/hour and felt lucky to be paid $6. In nearly 15 years, that rate has barely inched to $7.25 and that is the root of the problem