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@CarefreeConscious
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 pm
❤❤❤
@Mikey46123
November 27, 2025 at 2:05 pm
The question I have always wondered about since I was 7 years old….
@martinesejour3361
November 27, 2025 at 2:08 pm
Wrote this a while ago. Charity is best given when the donors actually receive it. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Poverty is an illusion designed by men.
@michaelshaw8370
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 pm
Teaching people to fish. Or farm crops that are better suited for the changed conditions. While also proving training them how to handle the improved equipment supplied. Be it from fishing equipment. Tractor or wells providing irrigation and how to best support that irrigation.
@michaelshaw8370
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 pm
Giving money to western poorer people most would spend it on clothes electronics or a car. As soon as it is gone demand more only to repeat the same path.
@adayandalife
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 pm
Bumbaklaat
@cleander3645
November 30, 2025 at 6:20 am
Yeah you are right i wouldn’t try Not to starve. ID definitly buy a Car are you Hearing yourself?
@henriquenakamatu4719
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 pm
explain Brazil
@talldave1000
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 pm
Sometimes, what people need isn’t necessarily good for them
@ManTeera
November 27, 2025 at 3:13 pm
What??
@MasterofDeath01
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 pm
There’s literally a generous welfare state in the USA and the UK where people are given direct cash. It doesn’t eradicate poverty.
@YIIMM
November 27, 2025 at 2:57 pm
All cars have seatbelts, yet that doesn’t stop people dying in car crashes.
@MasterofDeath01
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 pm
@YIIMM the video is claiming that people are capable of “fishing and investing” once they’re not trapped in poverty. Clearly not if the welfare states are so massive.
@YIIMM
November 27, 2025 at 3:07 pm
@MasterofDeath01I was advocating for the removable of seatbelts, as if a measure only partially solves a problem, it is not worth pursuing.
@MasterofDeath01
November 27, 2025 at 3:36 pm
@YIIMM I can tell you that I’m not advocating for the removal of a welfare state, but clearly we need to teach the poor to fish as well as give them fish.
@technolus5742
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 pm
@MasterofDeath01 She may be talking specifically about international poverty, where the locals often know their needs a lot better than the international organizations that try to help them. They already have local talent and knowledge.
@580bassfishing7
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 pm
Is this new
@adayandalife
November 27, 2025 at 3:04 pm
You mention giving money to the poor people and display an African. You speak of philanthropy and governments yet you know very well the system is designed to be stoney and the poor can’t climb. The system you created to keep the richest continent in the world by far the poorest so you can extort our minerals. There is no such thing as something for nothing your giving comes with conditions strings attached always. What we need in Africa is you vampires to leave us alone we need African solutions to our problems not your thoughts and dynamics of social and economic life which only render us poor. IMF world Bank Bumb klaat Babylon system.
@GYM-Trainer_Tony
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 pm
Through great starvation, I educated myself, and lifted myself up. MY Life’s struggle will not be in vein.
Victory
@MsIngPeace
November 27, 2025 at 4:43 pm
It is in your veins but it won’t be in vain
@technolus5742
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 pm
Too many people think “I had it very tough and I made it, so others can do it too and should have it just as hard”. Such a bad take that keeps people in hardship.
@dipperdandy
November 28, 2025 at 4:46 pm
@technolus5742 “I’ve suffered, so I’ll make sure others don’t”
vs
“I’ve suffered, so I’ll make sure others do, too”
@jobkhoda6697
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 pm
Let me make a comment on this so to remind me of this concept whenever liked😊
@civilization57
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 pm
Generational poverty will never be solved through handouts. Give a poor person $1000 and months later he will be poor again. Only those of strong character will thrive.
@technolus5742
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 pm
Never seen $1000 change anyone’s life. No matter how strong their character is.
Seen people with little character do better because money was thrown at their problems (bad grades? money thrown at a tutor. Bad behavior? money thrown at private schools that help manage the environment of the child, …).
Anyone who has seen the difference money actually makes, knows how the same character leads to very different outcomes in its presence or absence.
@rickyspectacular
November 28, 2025 at 8:31 am
Your opinion is not true. This entire talk is about how that assumption is false. Ted talks are meant to help you grow and update your thinking. Take the opportunity,
@cleander3645
November 30, 2025 at 6:15 am
Yeah 1000$ and you are Set for Life
@Maksrfrz
November 30, 2025 at 10:14 am
Beig born in poverty is no one’s fault, but dying poor is another story.
@technolus5742
November 30, 2025 at 11:17 am
@Maksrfrz of my childhood neighbors all born to upper middle class I have not seen a single case of poverty. We all went to university. One even paid someone to take some of his exams. We are all fairly well off.
I had a girlfriend from a bad part of town, of 3 siblings only she attended college and had to work full time while studying to help support her family. Last I saw any of them, her sister was working as a baker with little time for her child.
It’s no one’s fault? It’s everyone’s fault when we turn a bind eye and blame them for the fate we all but ensured.
@noname-pb9vj
November 27, 2025 at 5:33 pm
But the Ultra wealthy say its their money
@officesuperhero9611
November 27, 2025 at 5:49 pm
I think she is full of nonsense. Tell the millions of people in America who receive free govt money. Ask them what they do with the money.
@mikaelkasike854
November 27, 2025 at 5:55 pm
Giving handouts is definetly not going to solve the problem. The only way to solve the issue of poverty is fixing the systems.
@Maksrfrz
November 27, 2025 at 6:28 pm
No ma’am, poor people are extremely poor because they know they need money but they do not know how to manage it. It is like a hole in the sack. This concept is redundant and obsolete.
@Mrs.R.1980
November 28, 2025 at 12:57 am
You can’t ‘budget’ your way out of wages that haven’t kept up with rent, healthcare, childcare, or groceries. Blaming poor people for poverty ignores the actual math. Poverty is a systemic issue, built and maintained by wealthy individuals who benefit from keeping the gap wide. Blaming poor people just helps the system stay intact 🤷🏻♀️
@Maksrfrz
November 28, 2025 at 3:14 pm
@Mrs.R.1980 I have examples of many people going from rags to riches by disciplined planning and execution of plans. But I cannot find one example of making a poor rich buy donations and direct charity. Charity is good somehow only, if the poor do not turn into a beggar.
@Mrs.R.1980
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 pm
@Maksrfrz Individual success stories don’t erase systemic barriers. For every ‘rags to riches’ example, there are millions working hard, budgeting perfectly, and still not earning a living wage. Anecdotes aren’t data. One person getting lucky doesn’t fix a broken system 🤷🏻♀️
@cleander3645
November 30, 2025 at 6:23 am
No Hes right Its a mindest Thing If you live paycheck to paycheck, almost starve day by day and Work the whole day you should start investing or building Your own company.
@stephenking9789
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 pm
another good question is why do the poorest of people tend to create the most kids
@motivationalspeech609
November 28, 2025 at 4:30 am
Maybe they think more children bring more workforce.
@lechenaultia5863
November 28, 2025 at 7:45 am
Pension and aged care plans
@dssims072
November 28, 2025 at 9:34 pm
In 3rd world I’d assume it’s because of mortality rates and in 1st world it’s because gov. subsidy and/or general stupidity
@cleander3645
November 30, 2025 at 6:18 am
1. No protection and No knowledge of protection
2. What do you do If Your Life sucks and you cant do anything about IT
3. If you get ill who will Take Care of you
@KMAL-AMIN-r4g4f
November 27, 2025 at 11:19 pm
I am form Bangladesh
@olohialli9289
November 28, 2025 at 4:14 am
I’m no expert but it’s never that straightforward
@lechenaultia5863
November 28, 2025 at 7:44 am
Get rid of the middlemen ie bloated self-serving ‘charities’
@RTL2L
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 pm
It’s her business, of course she is promoting it )))
@Scardor
November 30, 2025 at 3:14 am
Or did she start the business and promote it because it is based on research and is not getting enough attention?
@therealLEP
November 29, 2025 at 12:20 am
Too bad greed is a thing..
@adventurousloner
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 pm
Poverty is a construct. Poverty is a matter of perception. Poverty, like some intangible phenomena specific to humans, can be deemed self induced suffering.
@cleander3645
November 30, 2025 at 6:06 am
Correct me If im wrong but giving Money to people directly lets Other people that are “stronger” steal it and use IT for themselves No?
@kickinrocks6055
November 30, 2025 at 6:23 am
There’s s study. Around 77-90% don’t improve with handouts. Solutions are complicated. And it needs to be acknowledged that some people just don’t want to work. Just ask them.