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Poverty isn’t a lack of character — it’s a lack of CASH #RutgerBregman #UBI #TEDTalks

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  1. @Amanda-h6d5c

    March 17, 2025 at 5:08 pm

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  2. @Angelina-o6l3u

    March 17, 2025 at 5:08 pm

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  3. @TeamRogers7

    March 17, 2025 at 5:09 pm

    Happy St. Patrick’s Day, TED!

  4. @grawman67

    March 17, 2025 at 5:09 pm

    Who is saying poverty is a lack of character??

    • @monopolizedopamine

      March 17, 2025 at 5:14 pm

      Americans who want you to pick yourself up by your bootstraps.

    • @kittyKatfish

      March 17, 2025 at 5:20 pm

      ​@monopolizedopamine meaning the people who expect everything to be handed to them without actually doing anything because they are lazy and entitled. That’s lack of character.

    • @monopolizedopamine

      March 17, 2025 at 5:31 pm

      I knew it wouldn’t take long before the OP’s question was answered by example.

    • @alanhat5252

      March 17, 2025 at 5:51 pm

      it’s a standard narrative from right-wing politicians & Media

    • @unk4617

      March 17, 2025 at 6:02 pm

      I am !
      Well not that both things exist injust associate one with the other lack of charachter will always lead to poverty and poverty will promote a lack of charachter

  5. @ericcomp7032

    March 17, 2025 at 5:10 pm

    all of us 😢

  6. @crashnova7601

    March 17, 2025 at 5:15 pm

    ” Billionaires should not exist in a just society and in a true democracy they wouldn’t. “

    • @USmetallist

      March 17, 2025 at 5:45 pm

      BILLIONAIRE NEED EXIST… as long as they pay 35% TAX RATE. . go for it

    • @alanhat5252

      March 17, 2025 at 5:48 pm

      ​@@USmetallistthey don’t though, many don’t pay *__any__* tax.

    • @USmetallist

      March 17, 2025 at 6:26 pm

      @alanhat5252  barely any… usually 1-3% only

  7. @melw5880

    March 17, 2025 at 5:16 pm

    Sounds brilliant. 😮

  8. @Tastyturkey56

    March 17, 2025 at 5:18 pm

    Too bad this could never happen in this corrupt country.

  9. @betsypower7850

    March 17, 2025 at 5:20 pm

    Who doesn’t know that poverty is a lack of cash
    😮

    • @alanhat5252

      March 17, 2025 at 5:52 pm

      many of the politicians you voted for & the media you consume

  10. @JakeRoselli

    March 17, 2025 at 5:27 pm

    There is plenty of statistical evidence that shows if you graduate from high school and don’t have kids out of wedlock, you will not suffer from poverty in America.

  11. @Ligia_Lo

    March 17, 2025 at 5:27 pm

    💁

  12. @bluekangarootheoretics5336

    March 17, 2025 at 5:32 pm

    Been around, and been shut down several times. I have hope.

  13. @rubychew6535

    March 17, 2025 at 5:44 pm

    In the US tax the 1% of the wealthy since they have loopholes to avoid taxation.

  14. @avidmisreader

    March 17, 2025 at 5:47 pm

    Sorry but the dissolution of capitalism is unavoidable there’s no amount of redistribution schemes (negative income tax unmaterialized since 1970’s) that can stop it.

  15. @xshu_.

    March 17, 2025 at 6:15 pm

    Pewds in another universe

    • @lunaneila

      March 17, 2025 at 7:10 pm

      Yes 😂

  16. @nelsonartemio4218

    March 17, 2025 at 6:21 pm

    What are the root causes?

  17. @kindbeast6974

    March 17, 2025 at 6:26 pm

    Caliphates did this, but I don’t know if any ruling system or empire did something similar in the past

  18. @Nichole8609

    March 17, 2025 at 6:27 pm

    While I’m not against universal basic income, I am against taking responsibility away from companies and big corporations to pay their fair share of taxes and a fair wage to workers.

    • @belaytriks

      March 17, 2025 at 9:30 pm

      If you do not have to work to remain below poverty line companies would need to offer better conditions in order to retain their workers.

    • @avidmisreader

      March 18, 2025 at 4:36 am

      @@belaytriks “while more can now access much costlier worse essentials than socialists [you don’t know the price they’re paying for their poverty alleviation!!], their increased buying power inflates real value. So enjoy these smaller and smaller, harder and harder, faker and faker crumbs. There’s no alternative to being a self-made prodigy.”

    • @stevenporter863

      March 18, 2025 at 7:17 am

      Basically it is just forced tipping or mandatory surcharge out of control and expands to more people.

  19. @BoggWeasel

    March 17, 2025 at 6:46 pm

    Just the title deserves a thumbs up ……Instead of putting so much profit into paying share holders, pay workers more, that gives the middle class more disposable income to spend on goods and services and the stimulation will bring along the wages for lower income jobs. Government gets more taxes, Americans could afford domestic made goods which would boost domestic industry and production and the disseminations of cash in circulation makes for a more stable economy less tied to the vagaries’ of the stock market cycles. Is that too simple to work, It means a few people being less greedy for the good of the whole, they’ll still be richer than they need to be and we get to enjoy a better quality of life. Conscientious capitalism….

  20. @PonderDuke

    March 17, 2025 at 7:11 pm

    Why not try it for a decade. And check the results.

  21. @circle3counseling

    March 17, 2025 at 7:12 pm

    Poverty is trauma.

  22. @freedomstonemycology9894

    March 17, 2025 at 7:27 pm

    I AM OWNERS
    I AM THE QUEEN 👑 ETCETERAS 👑

  23. @freedomstonemycology9894

    March 17, 2025 at 7:30 pm

    ANOTHER human caught
    Using MY CLOUT
    knowledges & technologies
    I AM THE QUEEN 👑 ETCETERAS 👑

  24. @iconboy1

    March 17, 2025 at 7:58 pm

    Basic income guarantee doesn’t help when corporations own all the assets, and they can just raise rent, insurance costs, food costs, gas prices, etc etc. and recoup any lost money.

    Also, the government is broke, because the wealthy have been siphoning wealth off it for decades. So who’s gonna pay for UBI?

  25. @RalfRangnickOfficial

    March 17, 2025 at 8:25 pm

    I think the golden question is what is the number individual countries are comfortable with. Too little and there is no worth of doing and too much drive businesses crazy.

  26. @lcssbr

    March 17, 2025 at 10:05 pm

    Porvery is mainly caused by governments with all the interference they do in the economy and you really believe we should give more money to the government to solve porvery?

  27. @seangrimes1

    March 17, 2025 at 10:44 pm

    👏👏👏👏

  28. @peterston4039

    March 17, 2025 at 10:46 pm

    This becomes even more important once AI and Robots fully kick in. Robots are already replacing people everywhere. Walk into some of the modernized Warehouses today and you see Auto Lift Trucks, Robots stacking boxes and picking and sorting.
    It is being sold as efficiency gains and eliminating lifting and repetitive tasks, but it does reduce the needed workforce.
    The beginning of another industrial revolution . Musk some years back talked about a guaranteed basic income. Thats before he turned.

  29. @tomorrowmely3624

    March 17, 2025 at 11:36 pm

    This should be applied everywhere. I have supported this concept for decades, but it seems that the prevalent idea is accepting modern slavery as if it were a law of nature.

  30. @vultureculture7707

    March 18, 2025 at 12:14 am

    If we actually taxed the rich like we did before Reagan, this would work.

  31. @Pweetypoo

    March 18, 2025 at 12:40 am

    No it doesn’t my mother wastes all her allowance regardless of how much she gets. $500, $1000, $2000, she spends it all and still ends up with no food by the end of the fortnight

  32. @NameSurname_000

    March 18, 2025 at 1:37 am

    🖤

  33. @gatn71

    March 18, 2025 at 4:41 am

    Tax wealth, not work.

  34. @chetthebee1322

    March 18, 2025 at 7:55 am

    This guy can redistribute his money to me if he wants

  35. @ian7666

    March 18, 2025 at 9:01 am

    The rest of us will be freed by having the government take the results of our labour from us under threat of kidnapping and imprisonment?

    Everyone on the planet will be happy to help pay for those unfortunate enough to not be able to participate, but that is overshadowed by those who are simply too lazy.

    Where do I sign up?

  36. @SturdySaiyan

    March 18, 2025 at 6:42 pm

    Why not make infrastructure cheaper than decentivize work? Make housing, food, education and clothing cheaper.

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