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If we want to build back better after the pandemic, we must reconsider philanthropy and create a new kind of capitalism that’s rooted in generosity and accountability, says Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation. In this vital conversation, Walker calls for citizens and corporations to question the inequality that makes their wealth possible, to think about their own complicity in creating economic injustice and to celebrate the critical role art plays in creating a culture that uplifts everyone. (This virtual conversation, hosted by head of TED Chris Anderson, was recorded July 1, 2020.)
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rivenraven1
July 29, 2020 at 1:42 pm
Philanthropy is about rich people avoiding taxes, hiding money while making it look like their helping. Really they helping themselves just look how much richer Bill G became after “giving away his money”. Philanthropy is more about billionaires reputations/ appearances than actual helping, psychopath billionaires wouldn’t give a twig to someone unless it invoked tax breaks. Putting money to their own “foundation/charity” and then claim they are helping people.
Anyone here recieved any help or see anyone get help from any “philanthropic organisation” ever?
rivenraven1
July 29, 2020 at 8:45 pm
@Brian Barrett they are “keeping the money” or at least leveraging it toward their own goals that’s the point of understanding what “philanthropy” actual is while debunking fairytales told to the public, by their bought and paid for “news rooms”/propaganda rags.
Brian Barrett
July 29, 2020 at 9:18 pm
@rivenraven1 You keep saying paid for…like its the money they earned.
rivenraven1
July 29, 2020 at 10:02 pm
@Brian Barrett true one person cannot “earn billions” are they working millions of time harder??? No probably not.
Brian Barrett
July 29, 2020 at 10:15 pm
@rivenraven1 but they do.
Lol
July 30, 2020 at 12:34 am
@rivenraven1 they are more qualified, risk more to get more, very self confident and pushy, competetuve. Not everyone can handle all above and more qualities every day
rivenraven1
July 30, 2020 at 1:33 am
@Lol wow as if billionaires need your help to defend them, you will never join them enjoy being their puppet I guess, but money is a terrible god and a terrible way to judge someone. The best hardest working people I know are poor AF. While Beso makes billions in a day he continues to under pay and over work his people many of whom need government aid despite working more than full time…. if you can’t see the obvious wealth disparity or the fact there is more than enough for everybody without “stealing” from anyone. They steal people’s lives they become empty husks of people, taking time from what’s actually important, family, learning, self-improvement, creation, health, and loving the infinite splendors this world can offer.
Lol
July 30, 2020 at 8:09 pm
@rivenraven1 you obviously see no difference between unique work and copy paste work. mental non copy paste work is asking more from person rather than manual labor or work by premaid plan like teachers have, because you earn by being different like actors or genius painters, designers, something where you can tell who did it or you work with high risk whee you earn more but risk more an need to be very good. People can’t earn equally because we are all different and it depends if you find what you are good at, i believe university teachers earn much more than school ones because they need to do publishing along with teaching. More creativityand yoh in your work, the more you earn. We can all make effort and change the system which limits some work from any benefit of showing what they can do, rather than just taking konah from someone’s pocket. Your example of underpaying and stealing is extrem and not so common.
Bella Andrade
July 29, 2020 at 1:53 pm
Are they finally ready to be uncomfortable?
Life isn’t fair.
Kerns Noel
July 29, 2020 at 5:24 pm
amazing how that gets used when it’s being used to justify taking from others whom earned what they had & weren’t given anything… but hey, because their white…. they didn’t earn it or was it their own efforts that got them where they are.
Bella Andrade
July 30, 2020 at 1:09 pm
@Kerns Noel Ok, you must be uncomfortable. Let’s talk. I have a question for you. Is Mr. Darren Walker a white person, an earned person, or a non earned person?
Mc76
July 29, 2020 at 1:57 pm
Money talks if you don’t have it, attain for a better career.
Ar Fumo
July 29, 2020 at 2:14 pm
I like it that they decide what ideas are worth spreading. Seems like u have something in common with social media CEO
Micky Deloach
July 29, 2020 at 2:29 pm
I Disagree
bRandomFPV
July 29, 2020 at 2:36 pm
HOPE is NOT HAVING… how many people have died so far literally because floyd?
ussarn g
July 29, 2020 at 2:54 pm
bRando … Died literally because of George Floyd … ??? … I haven’t heard that George Floyd has killed or murdered anyone. What has happened thought is that BLM, anarchists and ANITFA have made George Floyd their pony to act in ways that have caused a number or deaths.
bRandomFPV
July 29, 2020 at 3:01 pm
@ussarn g That’s what I meant I don’t always speak literally
ussarn g
July 29, 2020 at 3:43 pm
@bRandomFPV clear and complete thoughts a ticket to succeeding. More commenters on YouTube and in the world at large should make that their practice.
bRandomFPV
July 29, 2020 at 4:29 pm
@ussarn g I’ll buy that … in a time of 0 clarity in about everything going on in the world
justin fwibber
August 1, 2020 at 12:17 am
@ussarn g
Floyd literally shot and killed a pregnant mother. So at minimum two deaths on his hands that we know of.
This doesn’t count the rioters and looters killing in his name.
KESHRENEE
July 29, 2020 at 2:37 pm
I wonder how Mr. Walker came across this type of work? As a little black girl born in a military town in Texas but grew up in a small town in Louisiana you aren’t exposed to these types of careers, you are drilled in your head that you can only be the top 5 careers ( teacher, doctor, lawyer, police officer or fireman). Little black girls and boys aren’t exposed to these types of careers,…. why is that? Which leads to my next question, how does a program like this choose who to help support/fund? If you are suggesting that the wealthy are a bit removed from poor people problems. Mr. Walker and his team can’t know about everything that’s out there especially if people like myself didn’t even know a career like this exist let alone knowing who Mr. Walker is, who in my opinion is doing great work, just from what he has shared in this Ted talk. I’m totally looking him up and his career path. It’s truly important to know who the people are that help fund and operate our leaders and organizations.
KESHRENEE
July 29, 2020 at 4:04 pm
@ussarn g Just reading your reply to my message further explains why you wouldn’t understand and I don’t have the time, energy nor do I want to explain your given privilege. This energy is reserved for my family that I’m about to make brunch for. Ask someone else who has the time or feel the need to explain this to you. Read a few books regarding your request, hey better yet try using the internet for this knowledge that you seek. Hope this helps and take care 🙂
ussarn g
July 29, 2020 at 4:31 pm
@KESHRENEE very nice edit on your post. I don’t normally reply again to people who edit, without indicating what the edit was, after others have already commented on a post.
Not that I expected you personally to reply but what you have to say is not surprising.
You know zero knowledge about me because I shared no personnal info besides my opinion.
Perhaps it is because you have no time to listen to others that you have limited knowledge about option in life.
KESHRENEE
July 29, 2020 at 4:44 pm
@ussarn g Tell yourself whatever you need to feel better I don’t have the time to care 🤷🏾♀️. As far as revising my grammatical errors, it’s that sense of excellence in me. Don’t hate the player hate the game.
Shoulder Kicking Mossberg
July 29, 2020 at 7:01 pm
I hope not to offend you personally with this, but, exposing children to career paths should be a parents job, wouldnt you agree? I dare say, if a child grows up missing the inspiration to strive for a good career, that’s more a failing of individual parents than it is a failing of society imo
KESHRENEE
July 29, 2020 at 10:20 pm
@Shoulder Kicking Mossberg I never mentioned in my post anything about anyone failing anybody. I’m going to suggest you hookup with the person from the previous post and yawl can share notes about what you have learned about yawl privilege. Take care 🙂
ussarn g
July 30, 2020 at 3:49 pm
@KESHRENEE You didn’t mention anyone failing anybody … Really? Then could you explain what this means:
“Little black girls and boys aren’t exposed to these types of careers,…. why is that?”
Either you’re looking for the reason that *some* “little black girls and boys” have not been exposed to a variety of career options or you’re not looking for the reason. However since YOU asked the question I quoted above, it would seem to be safe to think you wanted an answer to that question. Since you’re back tracking from the question now, it does seem that you’re not very vested in what you said in that post. I wonder why … perhaps you’re not even referring to your own life but making up something because you have some convoluted agenda.
It is narrow minded of you to assume anything about anyone’s ethnicity that they’ve never told you about nor have you visualize for yourself. To claim that person is relying on “yawl privilege”, certianly is a bitter and prejudice point of view. I wonder just how much knowledge and experience you’ve blocked from yourself by your own mental attitude.
KESHRENEE
July 30, 2020 at 3:54 pm
@ussarn g Tell yourself whatever you need to in order to feel better about your PRIVILEGE I don’t have the time. Take care 🙂
ussarn g
July 30, 2020 at 4:17 pm
@KESHRENEE what exactly do you think is a privilege that an ethnically mixed person has solely on the fact of their birth?
Tom Pava
July 29, 2020 at 2:39 pm
The human race, through rampant overpopulation and toxification of the global environment, is a species in distress. Until we have dealt with those overarching realities, social division, unrest and the continued degradation of our planets ability to sustain life will continue.
graham mewburn
July 29, 2020 at 2:54 pm
Our food supply is oil dependant.
Please Google:-
Green revolution.
When I was born in 1948 there were 2 billion people living on planet Earth. Now there are 7 billion. The Green revolution made that possible.
Three ways our food supply is oil dependant.
The Green revolution – a range of agricultural chemicals that tripled food production.
Farm machinery powered by diesel from oil.
Transport powered by diesel.
The discovery of oil peaked in 1964. Since then in each decade less oil was found than the previous decade. In 2019 Rystad Energy reported that the global discovery of oil had declined to 9 billion barrels. Mankind consumes 36 billion barrels PA.
9 billion barrels is sufficient to run the world for 3 months.
9 billion barrels is 27 billion barrels short of what is required.
Soon demand will exceed supply. Price will escalate. Eventually oil products will become ESSENTIAL SERVICES ONLY.
Expensive oil means expensive food.
A shortage of oil means a shortage of food.
Please grow your own food.
The next crisis is a food crisis.
Regards Gray
Australia
-N7-
July 29, 2020 at 3:03 pm
George floyd held up a pregnant woman at gunpoint in the past.
Just going to brush over that??!
George floyd is a piss poor example of an innocent black man. Lol
M W
July 29, 2020 at 3:30 pm
Privileged people are NOT going to feel uncomfortable for ANYTHING if they didnt do anything wrong. Thats just your opinion or wish/want.
ussarn g
July 29, 2020 at 3:38 pm
This is one of the worst TED talk videos I’ve seen so far.
I’ve been subsribed to TED for years.
I watched the whole video (as hard as that was) before committing.
A Lifes Matter.
I’m ethnically mixed, and got more distant from Blacks thsn another other group because I don’t wallow in their in their project/welfare mentality. As a single parent I when to post high school education to a good job. I bought a house that was a fixer upper and myself and the childern did work on that house so in six years I could barrow against it to buy a better house.
There are opportunities for people who look for them.
Kerns Noel
July 29, 2020 at 5:18 pm
You should thank our Feminists for fucking over the black population. They promoted the ‘victimhood’ in blacks under the guise of kindness & saying they should demand compensation for wrong doings…
–The problem with that is as you likely have seen… Blacks on average stop… they don’t attempt to get past the first set of failures in their life & demand they be compensated for it…. & the issue with that is .. ‘live is unfair’, and EVERYONE but prodigies fails a good number of times before they find their success… we just don’t hear about it most the time.
Blacks have been made mental slaves to masters that they invent…. and now they are having their entire essence used to destabilize a nation, attack others, & take from them. I wonder what it would seem like to people if we could see everyones life. Blacks are useful for the coal for burning everything to the ground.. They have been installed with mentality of failure, so they can be used as coal to attack others. [surprisingly sick if you ask me]
— All the while, the ones doing it are doing in the name of kindness & are genuinely immune to critique…. and the real kindness gets treated as well evil.
—- How much would have been different if in the 70’s/80’s we instead ‘declared’ racism against blacks gone & that any black that failed .. did so because THEY failed. would that IDK .. maybe promote personal accountability or the drive to succeed past the obsticals in the way… because ‘you’ve been oppressed & deserve compensation’ clearly has produced worthless black community whom teaches their kids to be mental slaves to masters that they make up.
justin fwibber
August 1, 2020 at 12:15 am
You can’t bring facts and logic to the brainless. They just don’t understand.
mrFoxYou1
July 29, 2020 at 3:43 pm
How to disrupt Corruption in Philanthropy
Sasha Townsend - Tulsa
July 29, 2020 at 4:27 pm
Respectfully, Darren, you manage a $13.7 billion philanthropic organization. You have a lot of privilege! Much more than many of the people whose minds you claim to read. I know you think that those with privilege feel entitled to skip to the front of the line and that they should give it up, but I’m wondering who actually feels that way (I’ve never met anyone who feels that way) and what exactly you expect people to give up.
Let’s say an underrepresented minority gets a bachelor’s degree, and is now making $40K per year rather than just scraping by. Is that person privileged? Is that person allowed to celebrate their success? Is that person allowed to save for a year so he can buy fast pass tickets for his family when they go to Disney world, so that they don’t have to stand in line all day? Do you think that the fast pass shouldn’t exist? Do you think we should all stand in line in solidarity with those who can’t afford the fast pass tickets? What about those who can’t afford the ticket to get into the park? Should the theme park not exist because its existence only benefits those that can afford to go? Similarly, should private schools not exist, because their existence only benefits those that can afford to go?
I’m an overrepresented (Asian) female minority that went to a private university on grants, scholarships, and student loans that I’ll be paying off well into my 40s. Any student that got accepted to that school with similar financial background would have had the same opportunity to either pay for the expensive education, or choose to be in less debt and attend a public school. At my first job after college, I made about $40K per year. Am I allowed to say that I earned it? Am I allowed to believe that my hard work, effort, sacrifice and financial choice to go into student loan debt for that private school education contributed to me reaching my goal? You say it’s about standing in solidarity with all of those who believe your diagnosis that income inequality is the problem. Implicit in that is that anyone who disagrees with you is being selfish and privileged, including those that make $40K per year and donate to charity, and save up for nice experiences for their families. Is it fair that I made $40K per year after going to school for years (and taking on debt in the process) while some of my neighbors made less? Is it fair for me to be able to save and be financially responsible when others have trouble with financial responsibility? Some people might say that it’s not fair that I was able to get a private school education by borrowing money, but anyone with the background I had who was accepted to that school would have had the same opportunities to borrow. The only privilege I had was getting in, and that privilege was due to the grades I got at a community college prior to applying to that expensive school. Was I privileged to pay for community college on student loans, grants, and scholarships? Was I privileged to grow up with grandparents who valued education?
I believe what Chris said about language and inequality and working together to make the world a better place. I won’t deny my students the privilege of celebrating their successes. They had opportunities and took advantage of them, much like you did, Darren, and now they have the privilege of saving and spending their own money. Anyone with a college education and any kind of financial freedom (even that due to saving and spending from a small salary wisely) would be labeled privileged and entitled in this scheme. It seems that the only way to be considered “woke” is to be financially irresponsible OR to agree with your philosophy that any income inequality is wrong. Making $40K per year while your neighbors struggle isn’t fair. Contributing and giving back isn’t enough. Only when everyone makes exactly the same income and spends it in exactly the same way on exactly the same products and services will the world be truly equitable. Of course – I don’t agree with this, but it’s implicit when you say that the fast pass at a theme park implies that some people feel entitled to skip to the front of the line. That’s not true. Some people believe that if you save your money, and you prioritize some things over others, like skipping to the front of the line at a theme park, you are free to choose to spend your money that way, because you earned it. I don’t think it’s wrong to appreciate the fact that your efforts (and all of the efforts of those who supported and loved you) got you to where you are today.
When you prejudge people as entitled, when you create a straw man that is so ignorant, arrogant, and easy to attack, and then you put people in that category, you are engaging in prejudice. Prejudging and assigning motives, attitudes, and other attributes to people that they don’t have is what prejudice is.
Real change requires listening — even to those people who you want to put in their place. You’re putting people who make $40K per year and put themselves through school on student loans in their place while sitting as President of a foundation that distributes $13.7 billion per year. I know you think those people who don’t agree with you, those people who think they earned their $40K per year, are the problem, because they fail to agree with you, but you aren’t really listening to them. Implicit in your assumption is that anyone who disagrees with you is arrogant and ignorant. Only people who agree with you are truly humble and informed. That’s pretty self-serving… You’re prejudging them based on your preconceived notions of who they are instead. I think I understand where you’re coming from though…I wouldn’t like that straw person either. That fictional person is truly arrogant and ignorant! Thank God that person is a figment of someone’s imagination and doesn’t actually exist.
That being said, there was so much that you said that I agree with, Darren, and I loved the quote from the article that had the word nuance in the title. Nuance is right. Humility, empathy, kindness, and a willingness to solve problems together is the way to go. Attacking people who recently went from poverty to being middle class through getting a personally funded education and thinking that their hard work contributed to that is a distraction from larger and more important issues. Those attacks, and that participation in cancel culture, are fun for some people. The self-righteousness and schadenfreude are addictive. Some are drawn to it because it feels so good (to them) to look down on others. I hope we’ll focus on seeing and addressing real problems instead. Telling people that they have no right to believe that their hard work contributed at all to their small salary is attacking the little guy from a place of privilege. What do they call that? I think I read somewhere recently that it’s called “punching down”. When a person who runs a $13.7 billion dollar organization attacks someone who makes $40K per year for believing they earned it, and then using that money responsibly to have nice experiences with their family, I think that may qualify as punching down. It doesn’t elevate the narrative or solve anything to belittle the people you hope will change their minds. It’s probably the easiest way to make someone defensive, and least effective way to change their minds and even less effective at changing the reality of income inequality.
Shoulder Kicking Mossberg
July 29, 2020 at 6:49 pm
Very good, ma’am, very good.
Honest Person
July 29, 2020 at 4:43 pm
If anything is pernicious and leads to societal division it is affirmative action. The recipient of affirmative action ends up believing that they only got their position because of their ethnicity, whether or not they are competent enough to hold the position.
In some cases it leads to college students getting on courses that they have not reached an appropriate level of ability to undertake. This leads to the affirmative action student either dropping out or changing to a less demanding subject. This is not good for the affirmative action recipient or the person who could have had their place.
More cultural Marxism from TED.
Randy Thomas
July 29, 2020 at 5:12 pm
I’m white. I don’t need to be concerned about your race.
Randy Thomas
July 29, 2020 at 5:13 pm
George Floyd was not worth turning America upside down. Period.
Gerard McMahon
July 29, 2020 at 5:24 pm
Apathy and the lack of moral direction will undermine any country.
Gerard McMahon
July 29, 2020 at 5:45 pm
The risk in forming a ‘Social Bond’ issuing Foundation is asking some people to judge others and thereby form themselves into a ‘supremacy.’ We all aspire to a perfect place, its just not here.
HOD0R
July 29, 2020 at 6:47 pm
ugh, buzzword galore.
Thomas De Quincey
July 29, 2020 at 7:17 pm
Give me a break! People are racist but don’t know it. What a joke. Not everything is about f*cking racism. Capitalism is about capital. I can choose to place my capital wherever I want. If you want to take money from the rich and give it to the “poor,” just say it. And if you want to give more of that money to black people just say that as well.
P.S. You could see he wanted to bust out the tired “white privilege” bullshit from the start. I’m amazed he held it in for so long.
Danielle Simms
July 29, 2020 at 8:19 pm
No one pays for FP at Disneyland. You must be referring to Universal Studios or Knotts Berry Farm or another amusement park that charges for FP.
larhule
July 29, 2020 at 8:22 pm
As a poor white person I am tired of being lectured to about my white privilege by wealthy blacks.
0 0
July 29, 2020 at 8:26 pm
This does not apply to 95 percent of your public! So … non topical?
菜鸟知英
July 30, 2020 at 12:47 am
I would like to live and not just to be alive
偶的英文
July 30, 2020 at 12:47 am
I would like to live and not just to be alive
Startup Funding Event Global
July 30, 2020 at 1:30 am
Great talk! During times like these, those who can should really step up. They don’t need all the wealth in the world.
Lisa Love Ministries
July 31, 2020 at 12:05 pm
Believe and seek God daily.
Proverbs 3:5-6
Proverbs 9:10
Ben Ghazi
August 2, 2020 at 3:05 pm
Be a thinking human being and question dogmas.
Lisa Love Ministries
August 5, 2020 at 12:00 pm
@Ben Ghazi
Exactly amen.
John 16:13
Ben Ghazi
August 5, 2020 at 2:35 pm
@Lisa Love Ministries r/woosh
Brett
July 31, 2020 at 7:58 pm
Build ladders which may be used for the underprivileged to correct it for themselves.
justin fwibber
August 1, 2020 at 12:13 am
You know George was a criminal, right? He’s not someone to be celebrated.
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Brendan Guymer
August 2, 2020 at 2:01 am
Affirmative action is insulting to blacks. You didn’t get into college because you worked hard, you got in because of your skin colour. That is racist.
Thuận Nguyễn
August 2, 2020 at 2:24 am
Great
dong Tran
August 2, 2020 at 8:23 am
docno62
August 3, 2020 at 5:52 am
Gay black man, former investment banker, among the stratospherically wealthy … complains about systemic bias and racism in a society that oppresses minorities and holds them back. Hmmm
Marquieta Howton
August 6, 2020 at 8:02 am
Money will.not save you the way you raise your children will Stop making them proud to be hood and shaming them for trying to be a better person ❤
Bill Bruckner
August 6, 2020 at 9:35 am
Ask a young person what the Library of Congress is? Not a clue and zero intellectual curiosity to use the most powerful public search engine which is in thier hand to look it up. And you wonder why we judge. It’s not judgment anymore. Suicide of a nation. Me and my family we will pass on that and open a book. Read everything!