How Chips Could Help Solve Extreme Poverty
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- Опубліковано 11 тра 2024
- Let us talk about what decisions poor people are actually making. Why do they not buy as much food as they can? Why do they let their children skip school? And why do they decline free vaccinations?
In this video I try to delve into paradoxes and fairly unknown aspects of extreme poverty and what we can learn from it to actually solve the problems long-term.
Small Circles Forward by Daniel Karlsson Lönnö 2023.
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00:00 Intro
00:50 Good, well-founded decisions
01:31 Food intake
03:42 Education
04:39 Health care
05:48 Paradoxes
08:26 People will be people
10:15 Outro
Sources:
Banerjee, Abhijit V. and Duflo, Esther. (2011). Poor Economics.
Easterly, William. (2006). The White Man’s Burden.
Rosling, Hans and Ola and Rosling Rönnlund, Anna. (2018). Factfulness.
The map uses current day geographical borders and divisions. The borders on the map does not necessary represent the views of me.
Music from Epidemic Sounds:
"Light-footed" by Binnie Grace downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"Low on Drama" by Craft Case downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
"Project Blue Book" by Craft Case downloaded from Epidemic Sounds. www.epidemicsound.com/
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Mondays are terrible but a Monday with a video from small circles forwards, much better! Thank you!
now that's a compliment if I've ever seen one, thank you! 😊
God I hated going to school. I would walk as slowly as possible and was totally disengaged in any learning process. I would stare out the window while the teacher droned on and on without any attempt to interest the students. Bored as hell, repeatedly checking the time and wondering when the school was going to teach any astronomy at all (what I was really interested in). It never happened. I was so glad when I flunked out of school and joined the workforce. No guidance, no ambition, no role models. What I did get out of those school years was a way to avoid contact with the other students. Refuge in the library. I discovered a wide range of interesting books written by interesting people who were long dead but wrote tomes that were genuinely interesting (to me). I began a lifelong learning process still in effect fifty years later. How differently I would have turned out if they'd just put me in the library and left me alone from day one. Today I can hold my own in just about any discussion. Atomic theory, Geopolitics, History, computer science and much more. Today I see young people and despair at their predicament so much like my own. Their parents are leaving their kid's education to the schools. I have to hope they've improved since my day.
We don't need to do anything, those poor people just need to learn budgeting. /s
Such interesting points. Thanks ❤
I really liked this. Lots of food for thaughts
Excellent video. A lot of food for thought. It's easy to judge the poor in poor countries for making poor decisions. But when looking around at people in rich countries, large number of people are struggling, despite being far from poor.
Cracked did a bit on behaviors that carry over even after someone is no longer poor (over-spending on gifts, etc.).
And while not implicit, people it seemed were making rational choices given the circumstances that lingered on due to perceived instability.
It's not merely people making better choices, but those choices having a clear and direct path to a better future (could say the same of western countries now and going to university).
Otherwise why sacrifice for the future?
hey, what is the video called bhy Cracked?
I live in China and the Chinese girls love spending $100 on dinner that the restaurant doesn't even cook, a complete waste of money if you ask me. But the other way around it also works, if you're used to being well off and then the economy crashed, you're used to spending say 5% of your daily wage on a gift or 10% of your monthly salary on food for the family, you'll continue underspending even when you're poor. Then you're seen as a cheapass and malnourished.
@@Noah-vb3rd YT doesn't seem ti like my link, so search for "5 Stupidest Habits you Develop Growing up Poor ".
Cracked's other articles on being poor are pretty good too.
@@Noah-vb3rdthese articles were written years ago by 'John Cheese', you can still find them on the wayback machine. One of the titles was 'the 5 stupidest habits you develop growing up poor'
Try to do it yourself. Make a one month pledge to do everything that's good for you. Identify all you need to do, what is correlated .
Then observe how your surroundings react to what you do. What messages you get from shops, marketing and advertising.
Note your feelings and your thoughts. Write down all narratives that push, nudge you into a particular direction.
Then come back and answer this question again.
Being an affluent nation doesn't mean you make good health choices. We might not die poor. We raised junk food to a status symbol. Something you must be part of.
Are you free enough to make those choices? FOMO or is it FOBA - the fear of being alone, not belonging to a group? Social signaling is very pervasive.
Your videos need more attention from a larger audience
Thanks for the book recommendation :)
That free or cheap food is also some of the nastiest tasting stuff you can put in your mouth. It's often old, spoiled (or well on its way), or just simply nothing a human would ever want to eat even when they're starving. When you combine it with being also unfamiliar, you get extra resistance. How many even slightly picky eaters do you know? That doesn't go away as easily as you might think, no matter how hungry you are. Soy protein gruel may be classified as "food", and might even be rather healthy, technically speaking... but it is still gruel.
Another really good video! I've got a masters in Finance and a wprking understanding of macroeconomics, and I've never seen the chips-angle explored or even entertained before. Keep up the good work, also love the clerification of overstatement of limited observartion at the end.
😒 Promo`SM
Meat is health food.
If you are starving, then yes, absolutely. But if you live in a rich country and have access to all the food, meat is no longer a health food.
Meat is absolutely healthy just not too much
I have another weird one for you, a theory, what if, in the future, food had to change, so as to feed the world, my theory, is, if they in a science bio laboratory research, they changed mushrooms, directly managed to, have mushrooms, growing differently, as mushrooms grow faster than that of other food's do, a whole farmers paddock, a field of vegetables, takes months to grow, fresh vegetables, but, mushrooms don't, my what if is, what if, they managed to get mushrooms, growing in the shape of vegetables, that looks like the vegetables, that we all know today, start, being grown in mushroom reality food, but, looking like a carrot or possibly potatoes, and this becomes the foods of tomorrow, that feed the world, using changed food grown to suit the needs, of world food shortages in country's, most in dire food shortages, it could actually be a solid solution, for the answers of food limitations and starvation prevention
🙏80% down to 27%, Black marriages. Black women are 80% overweight,80% fatherless,most in-debt, least married, riddled w/STDs.The Welfare Act in 1965! 38% of Black pregnancies aborted, over 50% in NYC