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Nice thought... naive at best but it is a nice video. Quite a few holes in this line of thinking too. Like who's going to run that prosperous farm if all the children become research technicians. Families would have to be quite large to sustain this growth to make up for continuing to run the established foundation while also supplying people for research development. The "pie" can only get so big. This way of thinking is nice... but assumes too many factors as guaranteed. Look at it this way on a different subject, one not so perky. Humans can make a baby every 9 months but live to be an average of 80. If you were using this videos "logic" for cautioning against over population. You would have to assume that every single woman that could have a child, was actually having a child at every possible chance they could. No capable woman would never not be pregnant. It's just silly and completely ignores the actual random variables of life.
@Lily Gleave keep that negativity to yourself. It's just a fun comment they wrote. Whether it's true or not, also you don't have any original content too? And what if I make playlists? I mean, they exist for a reason aren't they? Are you having a bad day hun? Drink some water and relax :)
massive appreciation for in a nutshell's visual team - the compositions included throughout their videos are flawless and only end up on the screen for such a short time. y'all deserve all the love honestly
They are also telling us time travels to the past are impossible so we don't start researching on it and by doing so stopping to create timetravel paradoxes. 2000 IQ futuristic-civilization-move.
@@ZeloticMemes The birds are government drones that spy on us and record data to share with past and future iterations of the government in winter. Wake up people.
I have to constantly remind people that compassion only exists because it makes us feel good. They refuse to admit that's what drives them. I'm mature enough to admit I only hold a door for somebody because it makes me feel superior to them to help them when they need it. I wouldn't share food if it didn't make me feel anything; nobody would. Nobody helps for no particular reason; they do it because it makes them feel better about themselves.
@@PhrozenFox Exactly. There is no truly selfless act. In someway you benefit from it. It boosts self-esteem, you do it for the warm fuzzy feeling it gives you, etc. You receive something, even if it isn't monetary.
Honestly, it makes sense that there's both selfish and selfless arguments supporting altruism. Our brains are subconsciously wired to be kind to others because that's how evolution turned out; by helping others, we can help ourselves.
To be more precise: by helping others, I can convince them not to kill me, because I'm more an advantage to them than a liability. But the tricky part is helping them just enough, or convince them I do help them, so they will help me in return, but more than I have really invested in helping them. When the first human got this, politics were invented. Religions came just after, when that same human figured out the costless investment ever was offering a promise of eternal after-life in exchange for food, power... or polygamy.
I think our brains' evolutionary relationship with kindness is more complex than that. A big part of, if not the entire, reason why we AREN'T living in a global society where we're looking after everyone is because, on some level, we still retain that "us vs them" mentality from our ancestors. As the video explained, that mentality made sense for the vast majority of our evolutionary history. Yes, we looked after our own families and tribes, but other tribes? They were competition out to steal our resources. (I also very much believe this is the fundamental basis for racism). Our technology is 2023, but our society (at least in the US) is like...the first half of the 1900s and our biology (including our instincts) is still several thousand years behind.
@@weezact7That is really a very well thought-out and plausible finding. that also explains a lot that this nationalism in sports only comes from our base instincts and maybe even promotes hostility towards other countries. also explains why brainless people are easily misled into right-wing extremist views. one should think more globally and not just nationally.
Altruism is not being kind to others...in fact, its quite the opposite. Communism is 100% altruistic...10's of millions died. Fascism is 100% altruistic...10's of millions died. Religion is 100% altruistic...during its height, millions were tortured and murdered. Altruism is poison...and when you mix poison with food you get poisoned food.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve told this to people: take care of humanity’s basic needs - housing, food, security - remove these stresses and we will all flourish
@Tommy Taffy I disagree. I think a lot of people care, all you have to do is look at the comment section. A large portion of the population is really starting to recognize this. It's the current people who have the means to impact the necessary change that are not on the same page because they're so removed from what's happening. They have no concept of how other people are living because they believe that everyone is just like them and the basic needs are generally taken for granted. That's why you hear things like Bill Gates has no idea how much a gallon of milk cost (I think he said $12 or something like that). This disconnect makes it difficult for most leaders to want to impact change because their own cognitive bias blinds them to what's really going on and downplays the importance of satisfying the basic needs in the greater population. In part, you're right; it's exploitation and a need to dominate. But we now have mounting evidence that this is extremely detrimental to not just human psyche (which they don't seem to care about), but also detrimental to the economic system. And when that happens, there's a pain point that forces these people to make a change, hence the betterment of the world for selfish reasons. Squeezing rocks for water is quickly leaving everyone thirsty. But what if those rocks were never rocks at all and instead are seeds? The world just needs a new perspective. Once we all recognize this, things are going to shift in a positive direction.
@Tommy Taffy What do we have now that we didn’t in the ‘60s? Knowledge, information, science, statistical data. Is it going to be easy? No. It looks like things will get worse in the short-term. But I’m seeing a trend in the undercurrent that’s going to upset the status quo.
@Tommy Taffy I take it that you were around during the sixties and now you’re stuck on the comment section expressing your feelings and predications which are hilarious. Just remember that in the sixties you’d be another person with no voice . In today’s world you can throw your two cents in and no one will persecute you. Common man!
everyone knows that if you take care of these humanity's basic needs, the problem is that it's sometimes near to impossible. How would you take care of the famine and the poverty in Africa? I'm certain you can't find a realistic solution, I'm 99% sure I can take down every single argument you give me. Please try me
@@NomadUrpagi This is my kind of donation. If I'm giving something away at all, be grateful; because now someone who needs it, has it. If my giving also helps ME, then EVERYONE benefits because no one is losing anything.
@@Alizudo also true. But pretending you are more altruistic than you are makes you doubt a person and resent him a little for hypocricy. It's as if saying "i care about you more than about myself" which is never true, but politicians always try to make it look so.
@kkthxk Natural selection is supposed to ensure those people die. People with severe natural disorders and impairments should really be sterilized.. them having children would only make everyone's lives worse. For them, their kids, their caretakers, doctors, everyone.
I've been binging these videos all day and have learned more about the world today then I did my last semester of high school. I forgot how much I liked learning!
I don't want to be that guy but: carbon monoxide poisoning. Painless, and most of the time, you don't actually notice anything is wrong. You just slowly get more and more tired until you fall asleep and never wake up. Edit: But please friends, as much as I understand these are jokes to most of us, to the few that suffer from depression and thoughts of suicide: please friend, things will get better. I promise and I speak from experience. One day you'll be happier than you ever imagined possible. That's worth waiting for, I promise.
This video helped me codify my worldview tbh I show my friends and family unabating love, and they largely do the same for me I want everyone to have access to basic needs--food, water, shelter, clothing, community, medicine, education--met since that means there are more people who can come up with ideas to help address universal issues or enrich the world in some way--food, art, new ideologies
KC1919 and Stuff The universe is incomprehensibly big, the chances we exist on planet earth is pretty huge. Existence may be painful but it is a rarity we CANT comprehend.
Aliens: "so what motivated humans to evolve to such Utopia?" Humans: "self-interest and Selfishness" Aliens: "How did selfishness make the world equal?" Humans: "slowly over millions of years we reached the point where everyone being better off, made us more rich, so to make ourselves more rich we made as many people as possible better off"
Aliens: So fking idea....our million years wasted.... would have been saved if we used that trick Humans: But there is always risk in shortcuts.. see our nice shits like hitler,world wars,atom bombs,xyz,abcd,etc
@@glamastro did u even watch the vid lol... but to explain your question imo: humans are naturally selfish, we are motivated by self-interest which in turn by bettering myself, it betters others. If I become richer, I can help this community, donate more money, etc etc. If humans weren't motivated by a sense of desire and greed, we would have made fire and been like yeah thats good enough (no need for more) and never made heating systems, planes etc. This need for more, has innovated society and gotten up to this point in the world with crazy inventions for problems. Look into egoism altruism - the idea that every action to help others, you do it to benefit yourself. You hold the door open for a person, as it gives you a good feeling. (compassion). This same good feeling is done with the "richer" donate large sums of money to charity or setup funds to help people become "richer" themselves. The video followed on that the more the world develops, with more people becoming "richer" the more people in the entire world will have money to donate to charity - dramastically speeding up the world's innovation, productivity and potential to causes thinks like cancer. lmk if you dont understand :)
@@glamastro the goal isn’t for everyone to be a billionaire but if we lived in a world where everyone could have a job or profession that paid minimum $75k a year (translate that equally to other currencies). No one would have to suffer in poverty and worry constantly about their next meal. Instead those people could be contributing amazing things to society and/or their community. Like they said, keeping billions of our planetary population poor is a waste of human potential
@@JanieBee Money is a resource for buying stuff,.or experiences, right? But these experiences and stuff aren't infinite by any measure.... Let's say everyone gets a well paid job.... So, maybe the amount of people owning a large piece of land would increase ???? No, it would pretty much turn into an auction, because land's quite limited.... So being rich didn't equate to being able to afford more stuff...right? And while I used pieces of land as an example, it is quite applicable to other things as well. Like, say everybody owns enough to own a laptop. They go to a store, and turns out there's not enough. Their supply chain will have to amp up production, but turns out its already upto limit. Then, theyll have no choice but to increase the price of their products so demand would drop to what it originally was..so, not everybody gets a laptop. Same goes for food..you can't amp up food production overnight if the demand increases like 6-fold, and you'll have to end up charging more to keep the demand low. You cant use money as an inherent resource, you can only use it to trade other things. Sure you can invent money outta thin air...but you can't invent inherent natural resources.. So, what I was getting at was, the points in the video are accurate upto a certain limit. More people better off (while there being enough resorces for them to have ) is obviously a good thing(for you and for others) but if there's just soooooo many people, it won't be better for everybody...it'll just turn into an auction.
they have gotten a lot more busy making videos, I mean that is like 3 videos back to back right? Ok, probably not that quick, but wayyy faster than before. Good job
Ultimately, you should be altruistic because you are, in fact, being kind to yourself, since, after all, you are everyone, every human being who ever lived or who will ever live.
Sorry, I don't know English, so I use google translation. I am from Taiwan. The world I know in Taiwan is mostly a zero-sum game. So I am very touched when I see your film. If there is a youtube movie, I will vote for this film.
I’m not sure if you’ll end up getting this message and translating it (I don’t know what language you speak, otherwise I’d use Google Translate myself), but it’s cool to see this type of communication happening! I know that this channel is working to make these videos more accessible, so hopefully they have subtitles for a language you know now. I hope things get better in Taiwan.
It's true. If all the countries of the world had a *functioning waste management.* Then we would have less pollution in the rivers, oceans and lakes. Which is a good thing for all, except for the people who like their fish with plastic and arsenic :-) If all parts of the world had decent roads, then Germany would sell a lot more cars :-)
When I have a disease then I have to make sure as many other people get the same disease to increase the chance that someone finds a cure. These videos are really educational.
@@FeralHydra75if you’re the only person with a rare disease, big pharma won’t care enough to develop a treatment because they’re spending so much money on R&D for very few people. Widespread diseases on the other hand will have a lot of money poured into its research, just look at how fast the covid vaccine was developed.
I've been trying to tell this to the less altruistic people in my social sphere for ages... now I can just show them this. Thanks as always, Kurtzgesagt makes the world betterm, one vid at a time.
Many of the less altruistic people I know are just rationalizing laziness and still wouldn't do anything either way. But it's probably good advice for high functioning sociopaths and narcissists, like the average American CEO
Developing countries: Why woul- You: That way we BOTH get better pie Developing countries: *smiling Michael Rosen meme* You: *smiling Michael Rosen meme*
Robert Cook There's a chance we're in a simulation, considering how our technology has grow so fast it's not that crazy to imagine a future society would be able to create such advanced AI, and put us in a world to study us There that should do it
weed75 Black Had little time to think so that was the fastest one, what else should we tell him about? Universe heat death and nothing you do will stop it, so no matter what you do, in the end it's pointless?
The sooner we realize that we as individuals are no bigger than any other single person, the sooner we can see this type of positive change in the word.
There are five great equalizers of humanity: 1- Nobody has solid proof of extraterrestrial life 2- Everybody dies 3- Nobody knows what happens when you die 4- Everybody shits 5- At some point, even the hottest supermodel got a bit of shit on their finger from wiping their ass These five points alone prove that no ones has more answers or is in a better position than anyone else.
@@eyespy3001 Death is the great equalizer, but life isn't. I'd rather someone who got a bit of shit on my finger once than someone who lives with his hand up his ass.
That's the thing, people are highly adaptable. That's the real human trait. People are a byproduct of their environment. If our culture promotes and/or rewards the wrong kind of human behavior, humans will adapt and follow it. But the culture is a byproduct of human behavior too, so it's a self-sustaining system. That's why there's no easy way out, or single solution to it. However, no matter what solution is proposed, the first step is to admit you need to solve a problem. If people don't agree change is needed (or even allowed), no change will ever take place. And right now, criticism of our underlying cultural frameworks is the biggest taboo there is.
well, its true that you can make people adapt, but only if they want to... there are still societys in which you would get a piece of lead for such attempt- you would not have to change their culture, you would have to destroy it and start from scrach, shaping it to your will- maybe it would be possible by removing newborns from their homes and inserting them to western society, but for that goal you would have to face public opinion first
+sue: Yep. Marketing and advertising is an entire multi-billion dollar industry dedicated to ensuring people will act against their own self-interests, and in fact, completely undermines every single premise of a free-market capitalism. Yet, it's considered completely acceptable. But people don't really think it's a problem, so it'll continue to do such type of damage.
+Matúš Honko: The fact the change is deeper, or that it faces violent threats, is just a reflection of such systems being self-preserving to the extreme. It doesn't really affects much of my argument. You still need to criticize that system and dare think of replacing it, before you can actually change anything.
I agree completely, I have belived in this since I was in High School, and envy your ability to communicate insanely complex concepts in easy-to-follow way. Too bad that the "evils of capitapism, (etc)" are just symptoms not the disease. Our DNA is still encoded from the tribal perspective which is what guides our behaviors at the social level. But we can't stop trying..."Everybody wants to change the world, no one wants to change thenselves." - Leo Tolstoy
@@zionnemakoma1398 4:19 future technology would be great and other person say future technology?! meanwhile year ago: this town turned into alone and depression
The video is basically arguing for a dystopian world of globalism whereby everyone is a bunch of amterialist, and people are shamelessly abused as cogs in a machine for the sake of driving a global economy to keep a minority in power, rather than opting for national economies. Not to mention the driving factor of innovation is and has always been war, not economy.
Bogatyr Bogumir first off, materialism, means a state where a person believes that the more material possessions you have, the better off you are. That has no link with the subject of this video which is about how helping poorer countries makes the world as a whole richer. Secondly, your point about being abused as cogs, HOW? I have been to a lot of debate competitions and I see no logical basis for that argument. If you’re talking about the increase in people who are used as tools to drive innovation then I can’t really say anything to you, because you clearly missed the point of the video. If not, please explain. Thirdly, if you’re not a supporter of globalism, then, well, you have no choice. The world is already in a state of semi-globalism, and it will probably transition pretty soon. On the topic of keeping minorities in power........ WHAT?! HOW?! NO.. I.... Forget it, explain your logic if you want. I don’t feel like enduring this. Lastly, the driving factor IS actually war, but the major cause of all wars in history have been economy. Economy will always control politics. This is also why the worst human rights violations occur in the countries with least robust economies. Such countries are more likely to develop into civil war. Examples of economics driving war are: Napoleonic wars (improve economy of France) WW1 (improve economy of Germany/Austria-Hungary and France/Russia) WW2 (partially due to ideological differences but mainly because Germany just wanted to grow its economy) American/French Revolutions Indian Freedom struggle Maduro Diet Civil War Etc. If you genuinely believe something is wrong, don’t just throw out words. Explain your arguments and reason them out well. If you can do that it becomes much harder to break your arguments.
@@boguslav9502 Or, it could be an argument for ruthlessly annihilating every rich person who is selfish, and only letting the ones who give to charity continue to exist. You ever consider that?
@@tomhill3248 lol all rich people give to charity. Do you know why? Because they get tax breaks for it. We're already focing the wealthy to donate, simpletons just dont see it that way because theres one extra step
@william puckett Grandpa: UA-cam doesn't teach people anything, it's just for lazy people Kurtzgesagt looks at Grandpa: I am about to end this man's whole career
I did. Love the idea. Although I am myself more of a Fridays off guy. If you cancel Mondays, Tuesdays will become the new most dreadful day of the work week...
Unfortunately, the answer from politicians is usually destabilizing the country via forced regime change and handouts that do nothing economically. The best solution is free trade and to stop looking down our noses at factories in developing countries that pay their workers very little. The workers choose to work there because the factory work is better than agricultural work. As time passes, they will naturally demand higher wages and better working emvironments. Plus, skilled and specialized economies will grow out of the area with industry. It's all a predictable cycle, it just takes time. Just like it has and continues to do in China.
palemoonlight96 They know. They just want the power and $$$ ¥¥¥ £££ €€€ for their own benefits. Most Humans are just greedy little twats when they get even a tiny bit of power.
Makes sense, considering the only reason humans were able to even become the leading lifeform on our planet was due to our compassion/sympathy for each other waaaay back then
more like the lack of competition and the ability to exploit our environment. Homo sapiens killed other branches of humanity precisely because of sympathy as some argued: the ability to sympathize with other homo sapiens led to the idea that other walking apes are different, and as such foes rather than friends.
@@phillipjiang1593 No, the ability to sympathize would typically NOT lead a person to treat another human worse or kill them for baseless reasons--unless that person did something really bad to somebody else. Maybe you're talking about something else, like how sympathy HELPED people to form closer knit groups, which then led to closer affiliations. Due to time, differences between groups of people would grow and distinctify, which THEN leads to folks hating each other for it. Since humans normally dislike anything they're not used to. In that case, then yeah.
@@phillipjiang1593 Look, us humans are a paradox. Society was borne of sympathy and kindness. Most of us naturally want to do good, be good, even if some go about it the wrong way. We are also naturally selfish. We're both, which is probably why we're also the ones to be cursed with consciousness, but look. The first sign of society was a healed broken bone. For any other animal with a broken bone, they're done for. They'd rarely survive for long. While humans, cared for each other, even if there was no inherent benefit to it. Neanderthals and homo sapiens both were found to have skeletal evidence of groups/tribes looking after those with diseases/no real contribution to give, till the very end. That's how we became the apex species of this world. We cared. All our other shit happens not as a direct consequence of said sympathy (hell we need more of it these days...) but rather as a consequence of society instead.
@@bob_bub Hmm, I agree with your overall argument, though I have a hard time seeing how that is fundamentally different from mine. Sympathy does not necessarily mean caring for everyone, in fact, I believe that's a particularly modern concept. The more ubiquitous kind of sympathy is tribalistic, a modern example of which is US's bipolar political landscape. Caring for some other people necessarily means not caring about others, as prioritizing everyone suggests prioritizing no one in particular. Say that you believe in the modern Western virtues of tolerance, liberty, and equality, would you tolerate and care for fascists, racists, sexists, etc? Caring for someone necessarily means wanting to protect their interests, and disliking those who harm them. As such I think "sympathy for everyone" is paradoxical unless you are capable of conceptualizing a worldview in which everyone's interests align which, I admit, happened in history through concepts like religion and humanitarianism, but even then followers of such ideals naturally tend to hate those who oppose them, making universal sympathy exceptionally rare and probably on the level of Jesus Christ/Buddha. In ancient Greece, China, and other such cultures, going to war to further your people/nation's interests(and, consequently), were seen as righteous and virtuous: a demonstration of one's courage and commitment to society, where one puts behind his mundane, domestic affairs to willfully serve the collective interests of all ("all" in that society, of course). How is that not a direct result of sympathy, the tribalistic kind which is outlined above? Why does only sympathy for everyone count despite it being a much more difficult state to rationally, naturally achieve?
@@phillipjiang1593 That's an interesting view to have on sympathy! I always thought of sympathy as one's capacity to see from another person's POV. To walk in their shoes so to speak. So for racists, while I disagree with their reasoning, I CAN sympathize with them by putting myself through their lens. From there, I can use their logic to figure out why they do some of the things they do. For me, sympathy isn't always paired up with kindness. But it's those two that helped encourage strong collaboration among our species, later leading to our now ridiculously heavy influence on our planet.
This video and videos like it have helped me find my place in the world helping others. I grew up in an incredibly conservative and rural area and so I don't think I ever would've discovered myself if it wasn't for content like this.
Have you tried annihilating them if they're selfish? You ever see that anti Walmart campaign? Do you remember how after that campaign they got rid of the smiley face and became more charitable? Almost like it was a direct response to the threat of the population turning against them. Try that.
the point is that capitalism is the sistem that do people make lifes of others best for improve your own life. It's important to do get people care more about others for the dignity of humans, but deny this particularly characteristic of human nature it's ignorance and can cause horrible things, like dictatorships.
I had goosebumps watching this video. When I am alone, I've been thinking about all these things deeply. It feels like someone made a video about all the intreasting thoughts in my brain ❤️. Awesome Job! It's basically the brain of an ENFJ,lol.
Summary of the video: Instead of making rich people richer we need to make poor people atleast have a self-sustaining econonmy. If done so, the whole world will develop.
nope, the summary of the video is: we should act as patrons for poor people, and invest on them, and by doing so giving them the ability to thrive as we do and create innovation and progress (aka profit) off of them. that's nice (at least's a step in the right direction!), but it has nothing to do with socialism or communism. it's more like bill gates style philantropy.
@Jeepy Jeepy charities do a great job in keeping the boat afloat, which is substantial in sustaining the present oppressive socio-economic system. moreover, charities are based upon voluntary, one-off donations, and therefore they're not a trustable, stable form of help for poor people in africa. the only way to preserve that form of income, imho, is by creating a small national tax for international aid. here in Italy, for example, the state diverts 0,8% of your income tax to your church of affiliation (required by law), 0,5% to a NGO/recognized association of your choice (if you desire), and 0,2% to your political party (if you desire): so, the total is 0,8 to 1,5% of taxes you'd already been paying displaced for institutionalised charity.
Brittin: hey america America: yea? Brittin: can I have some pie? America: no, I already gave you most of it Brittin: pleaaaaaaaaaase America: no Brittin: Fine, I'll just take it myself
Minimum wage does not address poverty. It just increases it due to inflation. Innovation/Education is what elevates people to attain more livable lives not money.
Consumerism may also lead to pollution if people are not wise in their choices and buying things I hope people spend more on formal and self-education However, our world could be in downward spiral if people don’t shift away from fixed mindset…..and this takes a lot of time even centuries. I hope it won’t be too late… the little ones coming to the world have no idea how their future would be saved or destroyed.
@@jdg7327 Unfortunately, barriers to educational access currently perpetuate socioeconomic disparities, thus requiring economical and educational reform (alongside other reforms) to address the system of poverty.
Like the video said, improvement of science would increase if developing countries' conditions were better. Think about all the possible scientists who suffer from horible conditions and what they would be able to invent if they got a proper education.
Are you implying that intelligence is random and not genetic? There are many scientists from the developing world, the reason that they are rarer than in the western world, is linked to the reason that developing countries are poorer than the western world.
Firstname Lastname Intelligence is not only genetic, though that part plays a sizeable role in it. However, it’s not logical to say that just because there are fewer scientists in developing nations than in the western world then the developing world must have poorer genetics. That’s just racist, period. Who knows what genes there are in the developing world that could spring up one of the most brilliant people to ever exist if that person never gets to have an education? Intelligence has a lot to do with genes, sure, but so does the environment someone is born in.
But do you need that much? Also, we Don't have the ingredients to keep building a bigger Pie. And every time we make the Pie bigger, we make even more mouthes to feed. The Population gets bigger, Faster than we can make the Pie bigger. Eventually, it will all Fall apart. Innovation *Always* leads to collapse.
@@1000000man1 You do realize that a lot of these “ingredients” are not only super abundant, but also renewable, right? Like, you don’t believe that there’s not enough food to feed everyone around the world about 100 times over, do you? The more resources (i.e. intelligent minds) we throw at this issue, the more solutions we’ll find to make these resources more abundant and even more renewable/sustainable. This is the entire point of the video Edit: Also, when has innovation ever led to a collapse. A collapse of what, exactly? And what innovations? Medicine? Transportation? Computing? Hell, even innovations in weaponry have never led to a collapse. You can argue that swords led to a collapse in the bow and arrow market, but that’s not even a true argument since a market for swords was created that led to further innovations and conquests….
@@hollo0o583 innovation always leads to collapse... Just take a simple example of trandport We invented transportand look what that has done to this world
The only problem is that that "getting better" and "evolving" is ONLY for humanity. Nature gets so little, and every year natural parks, forests and rainforests get smaller. Thats egoism
@@ivoryas1696 Hoi :> Sorry, I'm too dense or too lazy to decode it XD I presume the digits of the delta from the actual value of pi in base 10 encodes some message? But I converted them to binary via radix conversion as an integer (over 10^69 as per the original) and saw nothing XD (Unless it was that strange unicode character \uFEFF but I think UA-cam adds that to every comment when you copy using it probably as a zero-width non-breaking space instead of a byte-order mark, but either way I'm probably overthinking this XD )
Dear rain without a cheap labour force the price of everything willincrease That means you'll have to earn more to bought it But in that case the guy that makes it will have to earn more as well to don't be poor that will just devalue the currency and make everyone poorer So "it's it impossible?" Actually it probably is possible but personally i think that for that we need at least those 2 things 1)Intelligent Robots that would work for us 2)Less people on earth or at least 2 planets to live in
caesar We just need technology that improves productivity. What really created the economic boom was innovation in farming, which meant a much smaller population of the world needed to farm in order to feed everyone, so people began to move to the cities to get other jobs making textiles or iron or mining coal or other jobs that further grew the economy
I love this video. It's too bad everyone has to put their own political spin on it. The question we should all be asking is: why can't we simply discuss ideas anymore? Why do people impulsively label things as "socialist" or "capitalist" as soon as they see it instead of discussing the core ideas behind it? It's such a common, emotional, troll-like response and just a cry for attention without any thought put into it. It's so easy to dismiss any idea as meaningless when you've already draped your own schema-blanket over the idea before you even start discussing it.
Are you implying that discussing the mode of production isn't about ideas? This video is very obviously liberal apologia. It assumes that a growing economy actually benefits everyone rather than being pretty limited to the capitalist class. And it continues to assume a system of profit incentive, which is inherently dismissive of human well-being. Dudes so blinded by his ideology he literally can't imagine a better world that isn't just based on magic.
You do know that capitalist has plenty of socialist aspects to it like roads, public amenities, Medicare, etc. I think the word you're looking for is Communism aka corrupt socialism.
That's why we need education. More specifically, first world countries need to have a hand in making sure great education can be obtained by everybody. They have the resources. Honestly, if it weren't for the internet I wouldn't be typing in English, thinking about world development, or learning different kinds of cultures, opening my mind. Remember: knowledge is power. I live in a third world country. My education here is shit. Closed off. Sometimes three to five years dated. For the remote towns, ten years, and the government is too backwards to do something. I learned to self-study using the internet. Look at me now, writing semi-fluent paragraphs expressing my own experiences to a stranger that, if not for my exposure to varieties of people because of the internet, I would just label as a foreign enemy, spouting racist shit instead of forming an attempt to converse, to exchange ideas. We need better education. Everywhere. It's that simple, yet truly hard to achieve. My next stop in learning is how to speak Espanyol and invest in stocks. Wish me luck. :)
Obito Uchiha only education in topics that adress society, like english and history, but definitely, yes. But stuff like math woudnt. Math has a different purpose.
Actually, schools are pretty useless. The vast majority of people don't remember the vast majority of what is taught in schools, let alone use it. It's been proven time and time again that most adults can't even pass 5th grade social studies tests, for instance. Apprenticeships are way better than schools.
Cancer takes around 17 years to actually develop into a clinically measurable tumor, so yeah there are probably a lot of people that have cancer watching this without them even knowing it.
That_ Dude read it again, you can develop cancer, it just *takes* 17 years to show up e.g. 9 year old has prostate cancer. 23 year old girl now notices the cancer
@That_ Dude People below 17 years might have a genetic predisposition for cancer. Not every cancer develops as quickly as other cancers and some develop quicker. The 17 years is just an average for all cancers. Child cancers are almost always genetically predispositioned, but are usually able to be treated quite well and not a lot of children die from cancer anymore. Also most people start developing cancer when they're older because when you're older your DNA replication start to become sloppier resulting in more mutations occuring and thus an increased risk of obtaining cancer.
Well, yeah They make money and get to feel good at the same time Just because you're helping other people doesn't mean it's not motivated by self-interest, if there was literally nothing in it for them they wouldn't do it
Obviously you missed the joke lol. Well if you really want the literal explanation though, the greater videos Kurzgesagt makes, the more people share and watch it, the more views and suscribers the channel gets, the more people see the ads that appear on the channel's videos, the more commission UA-cam pays the channel, the richer the channel gets. Tadah. Selfish incentive structure.
Unfortunately, humans are far more likely to be motivated by instant gratification than things that will benefit them in the long term. It’s not natural to think like this.
No, that is just how industry likes to program us so they can sell more goods. Humanity has an incredible amount of examples of having a vision for the future and working hard to get there. Could be you parents or grandparents with such (personal) stories.
Adraria8 absolutely right. It's why we are still stuck on earth instead of flying around Mars on holiday, or why we have coal and not fusion plants etc
+zenigel lol triggered at the thought of doing something that might help someone else. its the american boogeyman called "american communism", basically has very little resemblance of actual communist policy.
See but thats the thing, actual communist policy does not work. "American Communism" doesn't work either, as its a radicalized idea of communism, but the fact remains that ACTUAL COMMUNISM does not work. People are greedy by nature, and unless you somehow change that, a society where all the economic, political, and social power is in the government, will lead to corruption. Doing stuff for other people is fine as long as its benefiting yourself. Altruism is inherently pointless unless its egoistic altruism.
I remember hearing this in a Mark Rober video (dunno if he's the original author of this) : 'The smartest person alive might not have been Steven Hawking or Albert Einstein, it could have been someone else somewhere else but he/she wasn't recognized because they were too busy working just for their own survival'. (May not be accurate) People on poor, underdeveloped countries might have solutions for our problems but they lack proper education or other necessities to bring it to fruition
I can think of a few more reasons to end poverty, other than solidarity: developed countries are less likely to be the scene of civil war, dictatorship, theocracy and famine = less mass immigration, less terrorism, more stable alliances between countries, more open societies, more opportunities, modernised cultures at the pace of secularism, safety, less international drug cartels, less corruption to fuck up the world economy, better care for the environment on which our existence relies...
Bangurr Lol poor countries aren’t the reason for our current environmental crisis, that is entirely the richer countries doing. Rich countries consume vastly more than people in poor countries, frankly at an unsustainable rate, much of it on useless junk, and it is this that drives the CO2 emissions, wasteful water usage ect... Even areas in the third world being destroyed are largely due to demand for it in the first world. An entire planet of people based on a economic system (capitalism) where one must expand or die, and thus based on continual increase in resource usage, which is obviously incompatible with finite resources on our planet, is simply not tenable.
That's because it's in its developing phase. When the US and Great Britain were in their developing phases many decades ago, they were the more polluted places on Earth.
It all end on the John Nash’ theorem that says that in a conflict system the best solution is the harmony between the competitors and not the “fight” between them
No, Nash's theorem states that in a game in which a Nash equilibrium exists, a small change of strategy from one player will only damage that player. Game theory isn't interested in either cooperation or antagonistic competition, only multiple rational (even that's not quite true) actors playing by a set of rules with clear goals and strategies. Game theory is above such petty concerns as working together or in opposition, it's interested in the mechanics of how you'd even go about doing such a thing
The entire human population working together is what we need. But I don't see it happening anytime soon. The people in power are too interested in short term gains that will only benefit them and those in their circle, with little regard for the future of our species. It's a shame really.
selcuk polat Exactly, people only really care when they or their close friends or family are suffering from it. Otherwise it isn't something on their mind, and they won't ever be donating money to help cure it.
Actually, most of what we interpret as corruption is just being a good politician. The job of someone in power is to stay in power. this is achieved through gaining money, then paying the people who put you in charge(keys). If you are in a dictatorship the number of keys is small and you spent the least amount on the common good. If you're in a democracy the number of keys is great and a lot of money is spent on the common good. Politician are the nicest form of ruling we have yet produced mostly because, as the video says, they are part of a positive-sum game that rewards you for being nice to the greatest number of people. What your left with is mostly remnants of the old zero-sum game meta and basically the rules for rulers. Check out "the rules for rulers" by CGP Grey if you want to find out more about the dynamics of ruling over something.
There is an old saying in China: 穷则独善其身，达则兼济天下。 It means give if you can, but keep what you need. Indeed, there is no point talking about how to speed up the cure for cancer when you are still struggling to find a place to sleep or eat. It should be at our best interest (and everyone's) to care for ourselves first, and look after others in need only when we have the ability to do so. 穷而心系天下是为狂，达而闭门谢客是为佞。 古人诚不欺我焉。
Except what if you expand the "You" to include everyone, so everyone has enough of what they need. We actually have the resources to do this right now. Just not the mindset.
Well, you can't contribute to the world if you don't take care of yourself first. But humans have plenty of ability to help others even in poverty. Any kind of help counts. It helps the people around you, then the community, city, country,...
Hey, I have a question. I was listening to a Great Courses Plus audiobook on the history of China, and the professor mentioned that the symbol for well looks like a tic-tac-toe board? He says this is because of the history of the well-field system, which was a form of collectivist commons agriculture. Is this correct? Can you post the character for 'well' as in, the water source, so I can see for myself?
To answer that random question: 井 (jing3) is the chinese character for well and yes it does look like a tic-tac-toe board, but I've no idea if its shape originated from collectivist agriculture, though it would make sense on hindsight.
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Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell nice
Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell u should do some videos on marxism leninism
Addiction video is actually true. It's sad that u call my beloved video a trash . It does work !
Nice thought... naive at best but it is a nice video. Quite a few holes in this line of thinking too. Like who's going to run that prosperous farm if all the children become research technicians. Families would have to be quite large to sustain this growth to make up for continuing to run the established foundation while also supplying people for research development. The "pie" can only get so big. This way of thinking is nice... but assumes too many factors as guaranteed.
Look at it this way on a different subject, one not so perky. Humans can make a baby every 9 months but live to be an average of 80. If you were using this videos "logic" for cautioning against over population. You would have to assume that every single woman that could have a child, was actually having a child at every possible chance they could. No capable woman would never not be pregnant. It's just silly and completely ignores the actual random variables of life.
These videos are therapy.
Another funny thing is that chemistry started as a bunch of nerds trying to make stuff gold or selfishly wanting to live forever.
If you can use ionising radiation to change some very common isotope into stable , non ionising radiation gold, that's the Sorcerer's Stone secret .
@Lily Gleave r/ihavereddit
@Lily Gleave keep that negativity to yourself. It's just a fun comment they wrote. Whether it's true or not, also you don't have any original content too? And what if I make playlists? I mean, they exist for a reason aren't they? Are you having a bad day hun? Drink some water and relax :)
@Lily Gleave ok mate! Have a nice day :)
That’s actually possible
massive appreciation for in a nutshell's visual team - the compositions included throughout their videos are flawless and only end up on the screen for such a short time. y'all deserve all the love honestly
I told you Bill Gates was playing the long game, help the poor countries so more people buy windows computers.
lmfao. Hes owns more money than Sri lanka.
underrated(and topical) comment.
hahahahhahaah
lol
I mean if it means more people are living at a higher quality of life I really don't care about the motivation behind it.
"Why do you want to make the world a better place?"
"Because I'm one of the assholes living in it."
nice reference, Starlord ;)
@@shy_ba1818 :)
Iconic and most logical line in any superhero movie.
Except that U're not an @sshole, if U want 2 make the world better
You are Good aassholes can be mi dog said assholes he calls his own.
Kurzgesagt is just a bunch of time travellers giving us hints on what to do.
@Dunk Master 64 we think they migrate at winter. Actually they travel to other dimensions
They are also telling us time travels to the past are impossible so we don't start researching on it and by doing so stopping to create timetravel paradoxes. 2000 IQ futuristic-civilization-move.
@@dom6029 Saying that birds just have 2000 in iq is very disrespectful you forgot 100 zeros
@@ZeloticMemes The birds are government drones that spy on us and record data to share with past and future iterations of the government in winter. Wake up people.
@@user24350 Wow, you must be fun at parties.
"Do you like being alive?" Lol. The most passive aggressive I've ever heard the narrator. But they are right you know.
This made me literally explode 😂
@@Blattie RIP
@@Jack3G this is sad but true
NO
There were more passive aggressive whole videos, but we don't talk about them.
Psychological egoism is this in a nutshell. In someway even our selfless acts are actually self-serving. Love it.
I have to constantly remind people that compassion only exists because it makes us feel good. They refuse to admit that's what drives them. I'm mature enough to admit I only hold a door for somebody because it makes me feel superior to them to help them when they need it. I wouldn't share food if it didn't make me feel anything; nobody would. Nobody helps for no particular reason; they do it because it makes them feel better about themselves.
@@PhrozenFox Exactly. There is no truly selfless act. In someway you benefit from it. It boosts self-esteem, you do it for the warm fuzzy feeling it gives you, etc. You receive something, even if it isn't monetary.
@@edwardseverinsen5598 Yeah I suppose that is true. But it’s still a positive impact to the world for both us and the people we are helping :D
@@PhrozenFox YES!!!!!! OMG!!! YES!! COMPASSION MAKES US FEEL AMAZING!!!!
then crying is selfish too
You do it and then you feel good or okay right?
Honestly, it makes sense that there's both selfish and selfless arguments supporting altruism. Our brains are subconsciously wired to be kind to others because that's how evolution turned out; by helping others, we can help ourselves.
To be more precise: by helping others, I can convince them not to kill me, because I'm more an advantage to them than a liability.
But the tricky part is helping them just enough, or convince them I do help them, so they will help me in return, but more than I have really invested in helping them.
When the first human got this, politics were invented.
Religions came just after, when that same human figured out the costless investment ever was offering a promise of eternal after-life in exchange for food, power... or polygamy.
Facts. Life evolves for survival.
I think our brains' evolutionary relationship with kindness is more complex than that. A big part of, if not the entire, reason why we AREN'T living in a global society where we're looking after everyone is because, on some level, we still retain that "us vs them" mentality from our ancestors. As the video explained, that mentality made sense for the vast majority of our evolutionary history. Yes, we looked after our own families and tribes, but other tribes? They were competition out to steal our resources. (I also very much believe this is the fundamental basis for racism). Our technology is 2023, but our society (at least in the US) is like...the first half of the 1900s and our biology (including our instincts) is still several thousand years behind.
@@weezact7That is really a very well thought-out and plausible finding. that also explains a lot that this nationalism in sports only comes from our base instincts and maybe even promotes hostility towards other countries. also explains why brainless people are easily misled into right-wing extremist views. one should think more globally and not just nationally.
Altruism is not being kind to others...in fact, its quite the opposite.
Communism is 100% altruistic...10's of millions died.
Fascism is 100% altruistic...10's of millions died.
Religion is 100% altruistic...during its height, millions were tortured and murdered.
Altruism is poison...and when you mix poison with food you get poisoned food.
Birds taught me more about history than school
The internet teaches me history better than schools
@@kflame903 the internet also makes me to delete history.
@@manmeetsingh4719 what
@@بِلَادٱلرَّافِدَيْنبِلَادٱلرَّ I guess you use incognito everytime
@@manmeetsingh4719 I have no clue what you're talking about but ok
*“Do you like being alive?”*
Hmm, gotta think on that one.
Sorry: *alive* otherwise, lmao
Xanthos
Imao
BigHeaded
As a crew mate, you want me to answer no, so that it seems less sus, RED
Corrat
Nah, cyan kinda sus tho.
brown sus
As a content creator I must say, Kurzgesagt always set the bar of quality content ridiculously high.
I agree.
I share the same sentiments.
Kurzgesagt is a товарищ.
And it’s interesting because Kurzgesagt is an AI.
Doll Face what? No!
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve told this to people: take care of humanity’s basic needs - housing, food, security - remove these stresses and we will all flourish
@Tommy Taffy I disagree. I think a lot of people care, all you have to do is look at the comment section. A large portion of the population is really starting to recognize this. It's the current people who have the means to impact the necessary change that are not on the same page because they're so removed from what's happening. They have no concept of how other people are living because they believe that everyone is just like them and the basic needs are generally taken for granted. That's why you hear things like Bill Gates has no idea how much a gallon of milk cost (I think he said $12 or something like that). This disconnect makes it difficult for most leaders to want to impact change because their own cognitive bias blinds them to what's really going on and downplays the importance of satisfying the basic needs in the greater population.
In part, you're right; it's exploitation and a need to dominate. But we now have mounting evidence that this is extremely detrimental to not just human psyche (which they don't seem to care about), but also detrimental to the economic system. And when that happens, there's a pain point that forces these people to make a change, hence the betterment of the world for selfish reasons.
Squeezing rocks for water is quickly leaving everyone thirsty. But what if those rocks were never rocks at all and instead are seeds? The world just needs a new perspective. Once we all recognize this, things are going to shift in a positive direction.
@Tommy Taffy What do we have now that we didn’t in the ‘60s?
Knowledge, information, science, statistical data.
Is it going to be easy? No.
It looks like things will get worse in the short-term. But I’m seeing a trend in the undercurrent that’s going to upset the status quo.
@Tommy Taffy
I take it that you were around during the sixties and now you’re stuck on the comment section expressing your feelings and predications which are hilarious. Just remember that in the sixties you’d be another person with no voice . In today’s world you can throw your two cents in and no one will persecute you. Common man!
everyone knows that if you take care of these humanity's basic needs, the problem is that it's sometimes near to impossible. How would you take care of the famine and the poverty in Africa? I'm certain you can't find a realistic solution, I'm 99% sure I can take down every single argument you give me. Please try me
that would be ideal, but its a bit hard to do that.
"Do you like being alive?"
*"Reality is often disappointing."*
R/im14andthisisdeep
@@jeppek1ng Gonna refer ya to 2 subreddits: ihavereddit and foundthemobileuser
@@woahdude5553 Dont worry I rarely use Reddit. But considering you knew more subreddits than me I have to call you a *Casul*
@@woahdude5553 jk but you can't disagree that the original commenter is a self diagnosed 14 year old
@@jeppek1ng I can't, I agree with that subreddit as a response but I don't agree with the format
Person 1: Why do you donate to charity?
Person 2: *I'm giving selfishly*
This is so underrated 😭😭😂😂😂
My friend does some governing job and always claims he is doing it for the people but i know that at least 50% he is doing it for himself only
@@NomadUrpagi
This is my kind of donation. If I'm giving something away at all, be grateful; because now someone who needs it, has it. If my giving also helps ME, then EVERYONE benefits because no one is losing anything.
@@Alizudo also true. But pretending you are more altruistic than you are makes you doubt a person and resent him a little for hypocricy. It's as if saying "i care about you more than about myself" which is never true, but politicians always try to make it look so.
@kkthxk
Natural selection is supposed to ensure those people die.
People with severe natural disorders and impairments should really be sterilized.. them having children would only make everyone's lives worse. For them, their kids, their caretakers, doctors, everyone.
"If you can't appeal to people's good nature then you should appeal to their vices'
A very good point you made in this video ✔
I've been binging these videos all day and have learned more about the world today then I did my last semester of high school. I forgot how much I liked learning!
So you say the best way to be selfish, is to be not selfish....... *ITS SO CRAZY IT MIGHT WORK*
JT Nixon basically tragedy of the commons lol
we need the veil of ignorance
republicans hate him
It worked for me lmao
umm It's been working for a few years?
the History of humanity
"can I please have help?"
"whats in it for me?"
The feel-good chemical. Whenever you help someone, you feel good! 😊
@@Mii.2.0 money does that aswell
@@gmrn3014s Just touching money makes you feel good. 😊
@@Mii.2.0 I don't get that. Everything around trade gets me that, but never the money itself.
@@Mii.2.0 no all i get from that is disappointment
"Do you like being alive?"
....
Questionable.
I don't want to be that guy but: carbon monoxide poisoning. Painless, and most of the time, you don't actually notice anything is wrong. You just slowly get more and more tired until you fall asleep and never wake up.
Edit: But please friends, as much as I understand these are jokes to most of us, to the few that suffer from depression and thoughts of suicide: please friend, things will get better. I promise and I speak from experience. One day you'll be happier than you ever imagined possible. That's worth waiting for, I promise.
@@CharlieDB96 thx for trying to help but it dont really matter because we are all gonna die from ww3
@@CharlieDB96 climate change will soon yet changing everything into luxury and fancy technology
This video helped me codify my worldview tbh
I show my friends and family unabating love, and they largely do the same for me
I want everyone to have access to basic needs--food, water, shelter, clothing, community, medicine, education--met since that means there are more people who can come up with ideas to help address universal issues or enrich the world in some way--food, art, new ideologies
this makes you a socialist and thats a good thing
“Do you like being alive?”
Yeah I think it’s pretty okay, y’know, existing and all
no
KC1919 and Stuff well I like it, but I would like to live somewhere else. In a world with magic powers etc. 😍
KC1919 and Stuff
The universe is incomprehensibly big, the chances we exist on planet earth is pretty huge. Existence may be painful but it is a rarity we CANT comprehend.
no
hi
I feel the Guardians of the Galaxy summed this argument up best:
"Because I'm one of the idiots living there"
"What's the galaxy ever done for you? Why would you want to save it?"
"BECAUSE IM ONE OF THE IDIOTS WHO LIVE IN IT"
Guardians of the galaxy is great
Are y’all real?
Is this a simulation?
@@jlupus8804 Yes.
@@jlupus8804 I'm not sure anymore
@@jlupus8804 take the blue pill
someone: "the rich get richer and poor get poorer"
kurzgesagt: "the rich make the poorer richer to make the rich richer"
I'm an ideal world. I think this vision is a little too kind of an image of the rich.
@@xw591 well it's what the rich *should* be doing. But they aren't because they're a bit too shortsighted.
So I washed my face in the morning dew, and bathed my soul in the sun. I washed my face in the morning dew, and kept on a movin' along - Tom T Hall
Only they stopped bothering to make others richer and switched to just making themselves richer
@@noahhughes2501 bill gates is doing something like this
Aliens: "so what motivated humans to evolve to such Utopia?"
Humans: "self-interest and Selfishness"
Aliens: "How did selfishness make the world equal?"
Humans: "slowly over millions of years we reached the point where everyone being better off, made us more rich, so to make ourselves more rich we made as many people as possible better off"
Aliens: So fking idea....our million years wasted.... would have been saved if we used that trick
Humans: But there is always risk in shortcuts.. see our nice shits like hitler,world wars,atom bombs,xyz,abcd,etc
I'm curious what exactly people gained when they became "even richer"....
@@glamastro did u even watch the vid lol... but to explain your question imo: humans are naturally selfish, we are motivated by self-interest which in turn by bettering myself, it betters others. If I become richer, I can help this community, donate more money, etc etc. If humans weren't motivated by a sense of desire and greed, we would have made fire and been like yeah thats good enough (no need for more) and never made heating systems, planes etc. This need for more, has innovated society and gotten up to this point in the world with crazy inventions for problems. Look into egoism altruism - the idea that every action to help others, you do it to benefit yourself. You hold the door open for a person, as it gives you a good feeling. (compassion). This same good feeling is done with the "richer" donate large sums of money to charity or setup funds to help people become "richer" themselves. The video followed on that the more the world develops, with more people becoming "richer" the more people in the entire world will have money to donate to charity - dramastically speeding up the world's innovation, productivity and potential to causes thinks like cancer. lmk if you dont understand :)
@@glamastro the goal isn’t for everyone to be a billionaire but if we lived in a world where everyone could have a job or profession that paid minimum $75k a year (translate that equally to other currencies). No one would have to suffer in poverty and worry constantly about their next meal. Instead those people could be contributing amazing things to society and/or their community. Like they said, keeping billions of our planetary population poor is a waste of human potential
@@JanieBee Money is a resource for buying stuff,.or experiences, right?
But these experiences and stuff aren't infinite by any measure....
Let's say everyone gets a well paid job....
So, maybe the amount of people owning a large piece of land would increase ????
No, it would pretty much turn into an auction, because land's quite limited.... So being rich didn't equate to being able to afford more stuff...right?
And while I used pieces of land as an example, it is quite applicable to other things as well. Like, say everybody owns enough to own a laptop. They go to a store, and turns out there's not enough. Their supply chain will have to amp up production, but turns out its already upto limit. Then, theyll have no choice but to increase the price of their products so demand would drop to what it originally was..so, not everybody gets a laptop. Same goes for food..you can't amp up food production overnight if the demand increases like 6-fold, and you'll have to end up charging more to keep the demand low.
You cant use money as an inherent resource, you can only use it to trade other things. Sure you can invent money outta thin air...but you can't invent inherent natural resources..
So, what I was getting at was, the points in the video are accurate upto a certain limit. More people better off (while there being enough resorces for them to have ) is obviously a good thing(for you and for others) but if there's just soooooo many people, it won't be better for everybody...it'll just turn into an auction.
The animation is on point like always
Techno Mania hi man, do you recognize me😎.
Ahoy, Fellow Tech Filmora Mate
great channel
Always
they have gotten a lot more busy making videos, I mean that is like 3 videos back to back right? Ok, probably not that quick, but wayyy faster than before. Good job
(In economics class)
Teacher: What is economic output?
Me (slamming fists down on desk): *PIE*
haha
PIE IS PIE
@Very Polite Duck PL Your test results shall be legendary!
P I E
Economic output = Ππ
3:51
So Martin Lutgerking was right "We must learn to live together like brothers or we're all going to die like idiots"
Bunny LaDydy haha ur a idiot u even spelled the name wrong
@@dannnyyang ure*
@@FaranAiki yoo're
@@ShiratoriIsOffline I prefer "ure" than "yoo're"
@@FaranAiki *yuo're
This video seriously helps me with letting go with any angst or hate I have towards somebody else, now I genuinely wish them the best life
@@Demir_Sonmez ?
Glad to hear that!!!! 😃😃😃😄❤️❤️
Ultimately, you should be altruistic because you are, in fact, being kind to yourself, since, after all, you are everyone, every human being who ever lived or who will ever live.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I have a sneaking suspicion that you saw the egg video.
Axal Equinox the egg video...nice reference.
That means... I fell in love with myself and I rejected myself in the saddest way
;-;
@@awoum That means I was cheated on by myself, with myself, so technically I never cheated on myself!!
Sorry, I don't know English, so I use google translation.
I am from Taiwan. The world I know in Taiwan is mostly a zero-sum game. So I am very touched when I see your film. If there is a youtube movie, I will vote for this film.
There are subtitles now, try to see if there are some for you.
I’m not sure if you’ll end up getting this message and translating it (I don’t know what language you speak, otherwise I’d use Google Translate myself), but it’s cool to see this type of communication happening! I know that this channel is working to make these videos more accessible, so hopefully they have subtitles for a language you know now. I hope things get better in Taiwan.
me too, you are truly trying to help nice job!
DancingCheese their from tagging so I think the language is called tawhid
@@leandroroman7053 to see videos and understanding it is easy, what he/she means is to write the comment
It's true. If all the countries of the world had a *functioning waste management.* Then we would have less pollution in the rivers, oceans and lakes. Which is a good thing for all, except for the people who like their fish with plastic and arsenic :-)
If all parts of the world had decent roads, then Germany would sell a lot more cars :-)
Hehe, and who wouldn't be better off driving a German car :P
*Cough* Volkswagen *cough*
that was also Hitler's vision. and they killed the man for God sake..
He killed him self. So blame him
Joost TL 'They' killed him??
When I have a disease then I have to make sure as many other people get the same disease to increase the chance that someone finds a cure.
These videos are really educational.
That makes no sense....
@@FeralHydra75 Then watch again from 4:33
this may be evil but it sure is effective
@@FeralHydra75if you’re the only person with a rare disease, big pharma won’t care enough to develop a treatment because they’re spending so much money on R&D for very few people. Widespread diseases on the other hand will have a lot of money poured into its research, just look at how fast the covid vaccine was developed.
I've been trying to tell this to the less altruistic people in my social sphere for ages... now I can just show them this. Thanks as always, Kurtzgesagt makes the world betterm, one vid at a time.
Many of the less altruistic people I know are just rationalizing laziness and still wouldn't do anything either way. But it's probably good advice for high functioning sociopaths and narcissists, like the average American CEO
The issue is that even if giving a homeless man $10 would do some good for you it is highly unlikely it would do $10 worth of good.
ZAWARUDOart
You : Capitalism > Socialism
I think altruism is a feat of smarter and more educated people.
@@loogkai giving money directly knowing u are losing it is more morally higher than giving up money for ur sake only not caring what good it might do
You: take this pie
Developing countries: thanks I really appre....
You: help me make a better pie
Bake someone a pie, you'll feed them for a day.
Teach someone to bake, you'll feed each other for a lifetime.
I baked you a pie
Oh boy what flavour?
Pie Pie Pie
that sums up the video quitte nicely
Cough cough*
Trade wars exist : I am about to end the whole pie
Developing countries: Why woul-
You: That way we BOTH get better pie
Developing countries: *smiling Michael Rosen meme*
You: *smiling Michael Rosen meme*
Wow... I’m not even questioning my existence after this video...
Robert Cook me neither! I want to give everyone a hug!
Right? I feel betrayed, too.
Robert Cook There's a chance we're in a simulation, considering how our technology has grow so fast it's not that crazy to imagine a future society would be able to create such advanced AI, and put us in a world to study us
There that should do it
Ricardo alves Booooooo I've heard that way too many times to be affected by it.
weed75 Black Had little time to think so that was the fastest one, what else should we tell him about?
Universe heat death and nothing you do will stop it, so no matter what you do, in the end it's pointless?
Adam Smith in his book the “Wealth of Nations” talked about the same thing in terms of economy.
True story
adam smith chad
0:54 Don't you think you can slip in a Wilhelm scream unnoticed!
Good catch
*ding*
Lmao
Yep.
Nice one
The sooner we realize that we as individuals are no bigger than any other single person, the sooner we can see this type of positive change in the word.
There are five great equalizers of humanity:
1- Nobody has solid proof of extraterrestrial life
2- Everybody dies
3- Nobody knows what happens when you die
4- Everybody shits
5- At some point, even the hottest supermodel got a bit of shit on their finger from wiping their ass
These five points alone prove that no ones has more answers or is in a better position than anyone else.
@@eyespy3001 Death is the great equalizer, but life isn't. I'd rather someone who got a bit of shit on my finger once than someone who lives with his hand up his ass.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PIE!!! >.< I WANT MY PIE Damn it.
@@far2ez539 That makes no sense, but Ok. Everyone alive right now is…alive right now. How does that not make us all equal in one regard?
Hmmm👍
Innovation is easy but to change people's minds now that's the hard part.
innovation of thought.
also: convincing people is part of finding out if you are right.
That's the thing, people are highly adaptable. That's the real human trait. People are a byproduct of their environment.
If our culture promotes and/or rewards the wrong kind of human behavior, humans will adapt and follow it. But the culture is a byproduct of human behavior too, so it's a self-sustaining system. That's why there's no easy way out, or single solution to it.
However, no matter what solution is proposed, the first step is to admit you need to solve a problem. If people don't agree change is needed (or even allowed), no change will ever take place. And right now, criticism of our underlying cultural frameworks is the biggest taboo there is.
well, its true that you can make people adapt, but only if they want to... there are still societys in which you would get a piece of lead for such attempt- you would not have to change their culture, you would have to destroy it and start from scrach, shaping it to your will- maybe it would be possible by removing newborns from their homes and inserting them to western society, but for that goal you would have to face public opinion first
+sue: Yep. Marketing and advertising is an entire multi-billion dollar industry dedicated to ensuring people will act against their own self-interests, and in fact, completely undermines every single premise of a free-market capitalism.
Yet, it's considered completely acceptable. But people don't really think it's a problem, so it'll continue to do such type of damage.
+Matúš Honko: The fact the change is deeper, or that it faces violent threats, is just a reflection of such systems being self-preserving to the extreme. It doesn't really affects much of my argument.
You still need to criticize that system and dare think of replacing it, before you can actually change anything.
I agree completely, I have belived in this since I was in High School, and envy your ability to communicate insanely complex concepts in easy-to-follow way. Too bad that the "evils of capitapism, (etc)" are just symptoms not the disease. Our DNA is still encoded from the tribal perspective which is what guides our behaviors at the social level. But we can't stop trying..."Everybody wants to change the world, no one wants to change thenselves." - Leo Tolstoy
I like how we can explain everything with birds :3
i need my own birdee
*drops birb on neutron star*
@@randomgaming6436 ÖH NÖ
@@zionnemakoma1398 4:19 future technology would be great and other person say future technology?!
meanwhile year ago:
this town turned into alone and depression
@@nichsa8984 What does this have to do with me saying I figuratively need my own bird on Kurzgesagt?
Kurzgesagt: *I used the altruism to destroy the altruism*
The video is basically arguing for a dystopian world of globalism whereby everyone is a bunch of amterialist, and people are shamelessly abused as cogs in a machine for the sake of driving a global economy to keep a minority in power, rather than opting for national economies. Not to mention the driving factor of innovation is and has always been war, not economy.
Bogatyr Bogumir first off, materialism, means a state where a person believes that the more material possessions you have, the better off you are. That has no link with the subject of this video which is about how helping poorer countries makes the world as a whole richer. Secondly, your point about being abused as cogs, HOW? I have been to a lot of debate competitions and I see no logical basis for that argument. If you’re talking about the increase in people who are used as tools to drive innovation then I can’t really say anything to you, because you clearly missed the point of the video. If not, please explain. Thirdly, if you’re not a supporter of globalism, then, well, you have no choice. The world is already in a state of semi-globalism, and it will probably transition pretty soon. On the topic of keeping minorities in power........ WHAT?! HOW?! NO.. I.... Forget it, explain your logic if you want. I don’t feel like enduring this. Lastly, the driving factor IS actually war, but the major cause of all wars in history have been economy. Economy will always control politics. This is also why the worst human rights violations occur in the countries with least robust economies. Such countries are more likely to develop into civil war. Examples of economics driving war are:
Napoleonic wars (improve economy of France)
WW1 (improve economy of Germany/Austria-Hungary and France/Russia)
WW2 (partially due to ideological differences but mainly because Germany just wanted to grow its economy)
American/French Revolutions
Indian Freedom struggle
Maduro Diet
Civil War
Etc.
If you genuinely believe something is wrong, don’t just throw out words. Explain your arguments and reason them out well. If you can do that it becomes much harder to break your arguments.
@@boguslav9502 Or, it could be an argument for ruthlessly annihilating every rich person who is selfish, and only letting the ones who give to charity continue to exist. You ever consider that?
@@tomhill3248 lol all rich people give to charity. Do you know why? Because they get tax breaks for it. We're already focing the wealthy to donate, simpletons just dont see it that way because theres one extra step
@@jacobquirk7557 Not all rich people give to charity. You are, in fact, a liar.
And probably a rich person.
Grandpa: UA-cam doesn't teach people anything, it's just for lazy people
Kurtzgesagt:makes video
Kurzgesagt: Hold my pie.
@william puckett
Grandpa: UA-cam doesn't teach people anything, it's just for lazy people
Kurtzgesagt looks at Grandpa: I am about to end this man's whole career
@@kyleauthinus7517 lmao
Kurtzgesagt: I'm bout to end this man's whole career
Doctor pepper breaks in WHERE IS MY DONKEY LEG JOE MKEIGHHHajJJj
Wondering why nobody noticed the “Monday off” part. 😂
I did. Love the idea. Although I am myself more of a Fridays off guy. If you cancel Mondays, Tuesdays will become the new most dreadful day of the work week...
This is a child-friendly way of thinking of war, people just want more pie.
To be fair, that's pretty much the main reason for most wars in human history
And also bombarding their religion and culture on others
@@flowflow6012 Sounds good to me
@@flowflow6012 that's just more people to protect your pie
"Let them eat cake"
This video needs to be shown to so many politicians and world leaders...
oh trust me they know... they just dont care
What could that change, these are just ideas there is no way to applicate this to a country
um yes there is, take industrial revolution England and wider Europe for example.
Unfortunately, the answer from politicians is usually destabilizing the country via forced regime change and handouts that do nothing economically.
The best solution is free trade and to stop looking down our noses at factories in developing countries that pay their workers very little.
The workers choose to work there because the factory work is better than agricultural work. As time passes, they will naturally demand higher wages and better working emvironments. Plus, skilled and specialized economies will grow out of the area with industry.
It's all a predictable cycle, it just takes time. Just like it has and continues to do in China.
palemoonlight96 They know. They just want the power and $$$ ¥¥¥ £££ €€€ for their own benefits. Most Humans are just greedy little twats when they get even a tiny bit of power.
6:30 "Do you like being alive?"
> Playing devil's advocate here, I've never tried being dead. Can't knock it till you try it, right?
Hey, everyone does it eventually, and nobody who's dead seems to be really motivated to not be dead. Maybe they're onto something?
Well...
There was that Jesus fella...
Maybe
it's like anesthesia but permanent.
Careful, you'll start a cult!
Ha! How scientific of you.
4:55 this moment was so sad. I almost cried 😢
One person died, but nothing around had changed, no one reacts on his death. 😢
These guys could make a video explaining how potatoes grow and I could still be fascinated.
Potatoes growing probably has a higher potential to be interesting.
But actually, they should explain potatoes growing. Even if it's 2 or 3 hours long, I'll still watch it
I want to see it!
What's so boring about potatos?
Lmaooo!!.. So True.. lol
Makes sense, considering the only reason humans were able to even become the leading lifeform on our planet was due to our compassion/sympathy for each other waaaay back then
more like the lack of competition and the ability to exploit our environment. Homo sapiens killed other branches of humanity precisely because of sympathy as some argued: the ability to sympathize with other homo sapiens led to the idea that other walking apes are different, and as such foes rather than friends.
@@phillipjiang1593 No, the ability to sympathize would typically NOT lead a person to treat another human worse or kill them for baseless reasons--unless that person did something really bad to somebody else.
Maybe you're talking about something else, like how sympathy HELPED people to form closer knit groups, which then led to closer affiliations. Due to time, differences between groups of people would grow and distinctify, which THEN leads to folks hating each other for it. Since humans normally dislike anything they're not used to.
In that case, then yeah.
@@phillipjiang1593 Look, us humans are a paradox. Society was borne of sympathy and kindness. Most of us naturally want to do good, be good, even if some go about it the wrong way. We are also naturally selfish.
We're both, which is probably why we're also the ones to be cursed with consciousness, but look.
The first sign of society was a healed broken bone.
For any other animal with a broken bone, they're done for. They'd rarely survive for long. While humans, cared for each other, even if there was no inherent benefit to it.
Neanderthals and homo sapiens both were found to have skeletal evidence of groups/tribes looking after those with diseases/no real contribution to give, till the very end.
That's how we became the apex species of this world. We cared.
All our other shit happens not as a direct consequence of said sympathy (hell we need more of it these days...) but rather as a consequence of society instead.
@@bob_bub Hmm, I agree with your overall argument, though I have a hard time seeing how that is fundamentally different from mine. Sympathy does not necessarily mean caring for everyone, in fact, I believe that's a particularly modern concept. The more ubiquitous kind of sympathy is tribalistic, a modern example of which is US's bipolar political landscape. Caring for some other people necessarily means not caring about others, as prioritizing everyone suggests prioritizing no one in particular. Say that you believe in the modern Western virtues of tolerance, liberty, and equality, would you tolerate and care for fascists, racists, sexists, etc? Caring for someone necessarily means wanting to protect their interests, and disliking those who harm them. As such I think "sympathy for everyone" is paradoxical unless you are capable of conceptualizing a worldview in which everyone's interests align which, I admit, happened in history through concepts like religion and humanitarianism, but even then followers of such ideals naturally tend to hate those who oppose them, making universal sympathy exceptionally rare and probably on the level of Jesus Christ/Buddha.
In ancient Greece, China, and other such cultures, going to war to further your people/nation's interests(and, consequently), were seen as righteous and virtuous: a demonstration of one's courage and commitment to society, where one puts behind his mundane, domestic affairs to willfully serve the collective interests of all ("all" in that society, of course). How is that not a direct result of sympathy, the tribalistic kind which is outlined above? Why does only sympathy for everyone count despite it being a much more difficult state to rationally, naturally achieve?
@@phillipjiang1593 That's an interesting view to have on sympathy! I always thought of sympathy as one's capacity to see from another person's POV. To walk in their shoes so to speak.
So for racists, while I disagree with their reasoning, I CAN sympathize with them by putting myself through their lens. From there, I can use their logic to figure out why they do some of the things they do.
For me, sympathy isn't always paired up with kindness. But it's those two that helped encourage strong collaboration among our species, later leading to our now ridiculously heavy influence on our planet.
Kurtzgesagt: we need a positive world
2020: your wish is my command
I... fuck
@@----4604 Covid.
Positive.
Took me 2 secs but nice joke
right now the only thing we want is a negative world lol
💀
This video and videos like it have helped me find my place in the world helping others. I grew up in an incredibly conservative and rural area and so I don't think I ever would've discovered myself if it wasn't for content like this.
send this video to more of your friends
I'm really sad for the bird who didn't get any cake :(
KidLudens F
No, I’m not. I’m sad that I’m not the bird with the cake.
Here, he can have this one: 🎂
@@samuelrosenberg5088 can i have some cake too?
now think of all the people that bird represents :(
My my! The animation quality is amazing. If only you could make a game with that design style!
The Science Biome ... What if I told you you can
The Science Biome Yeah. Game art is often way to similar, and I love seeing when a game pops up with a fun and original style (like cuphead)
The Science Biome If only you could make a 50 hour video with that design style!
Revenge of the titans game, search it.
If enough of us demand it, then it will come faster, right?
How much global collaboration will it require for all of us to understand the difference between pie and cake?
Ben Cunningham but the cake is a lie
Haiel Reder at the end, there is a cake, is it still a lie?
Show me a apple cake then we will see.
2 research
By an egoism altruistic, thanks to you, I really want to thank you for convincing more people. You and your work are really amazing. Thank you.
“Do you like being alive?”
*Perhaps*
like the name
Damn why can’t I have a detective-sounding name like Phoenix Hartley
They should make a T-shirt that says "Do you like being alive?". It went viral in this comment section 😂
Please do😂
no
Yes
No 😂
"So how do we get people nowadays to be less selfish and care more about other people?"
Kurzgesagt :
Have you tried annihilating them if they're selfish? You ever see that anti Walmart campaign? Do you remember how after that campaign they got rid of the smiley face and became more charitable? Almost like it was a direct response to the threat of the population turning against them. Try that.
@ I personally prefer threats. But you do you.
@ *cough* British and american conservatives
@M33ble Not communism, it doesn't specify how to achieve itself. I'm a communist myself and I prefer pacifism and calm, respectful debate.
the point is that capitalism is the sistem that do people make lifes of others best for improve your own life. It's important to do get people care more about others for the dignity of humans, but deny this particularly characteristic of human nature it's ignorance and can cause horrible things, like dictatorships.
I had goosebumps watching this video. When I am alone, I've been thinking about all these things deeply. It feels like someone made a video about all the intreasting thoughts in my brain ❤️. Awesome Job!
It's basically the brain of an ENFJ,lol.
I'm an INFP and I have roughly the same thoughts. It doesn't depend on MBTI much, it's more about this weird cynical-altruistic trait.
I simply can't wrap my mind around how people can dislike Kurzgesagt videos
Ikr..just whyy
Mostly dumb people.
Because there's that mutated vultures disguises as blue bird hivemind
They probably misclicked and never bothered to check since they thought that they thumbs upped it.
US Republicans.
Summary of the video:
Instead of making rich people richer we need to make poor people atleast have a self-sustaining econonmy. If done so, the whole world will develop.
Can never be done with any materialist ideologies like Capitalism or Communism.
@Jeepy Jeepy It's a shame rich people are that selfish that they don't invest on other people to make him richer
Harzu well they do
nope, the summary of the video is:
we should act as patrons for poor people, and invest on them, and by doing so giving them the ability to thrive as we do and create innovation and progress (aka profit) off of them.
that's nice (at least's a step in the right direction!), but it has nothing to do with socialism or communism. it's more like bill gates style philantropy.
@Jeepy Jeepy charities do a great job in keeping the boat afloat, which is substantial in sustaining the present oppressive socio-economic system.
moreover, charities are based upon voluntary, one-off donations, and therefore they're not a trustable, stable form of help for poor people in africa.
the only way to preserve that form of income, imho, is by creating a small national tax for international aid.
here in Italy, for example, the state diverts 0,8% of your income tax to your church of affiliation (required by law), 0,5% to a NGO/recognized association of your choice (if you desire), and 0,2% to your political party (if you desire): so, the total is 0,8 to 1,5% of taxes you'd already been paying displaced for institutionalised charity.
"The more people want the thing that you want, the more likely you're to get it."
This sums up the gist of the positive sum game theory.
Kurzgesagt : *Every 6th person in the world dies of cancer and you might be one of them*
Me: Wow Thanks Kurzgesagt
+Xoda *tears start to stream*
There's always that one person who focuses on the negative
Wolf Among Us Tf do you mean.
It wouldn't be a kurzegesagt video without some existential dread.
Wolf Among Us are you a coward? Ya mom gay
"Societies invaded each other constantly to get more pie." is great out of context.
Isn't that basically WW1? After all, most of the monarchs are related to one another
"GIMME THAT PIE!"
"NO, I NEED IT FOR MY POPULATION!"
"NOW YOU'RE MAKING ME HUNGRYYYYYYY!"
"WHERE'S MY FLAG?!"
"IS THAT...BLOOD?"
-the societies fighting over pie
Brittin: hey america
America: yea?
Brittin: can I have some pie?
America: no, I already gave you most of it
Brittin: pleaaaaaaaaaase
America: no
Brittin: Fine, I'll just take it myself
@@Frappuccinoo dont tell america that your taking it wait for it to go to the bathroom or something and then yoink it
If only the views form Despacito were funneled to this channel.
if despacito 2 comes out, we could solve this problem
Neb Htims
...it already come out.
yea your comment is good and all, but Alexa please play Despacito.
Neb Htims
It already has
Or at least a few Piewdipie (dumb, shitty videos) subscribers.
If only most businesses can realize why agreeing to a livable minimum wage would mean more customers and therefore higher profits.
But no, they only like short term profits
Minimum wage does not address poverty. It just increases it due to inflation. Innovation/Education is what elevates people to attain more livable lives not money.
@@jdg7327 interesting counter
Consumerism may also lead to pollution if people are not wise in their choices and buying things
I hope people spend more on formal and self-education
However, our world could be in downward spiral if people don’t shift away from fixed mindset…..and this takes a lot of time even centuries. I hope it won’t be too late… the little ones coming to the world have no idea how their future would be saved or destroyed.
@@jdg7327 Unfortunately, barriers to educational access currently perpetuate socioeconomic disparities, thus requiring economical and educational reform (alongside other reforms) to address the system of poverty.
Instructions unclear made 2 billion pies
Thank you.
TheKreepton Creeper not guaranteed, it takes time aswell, you cant just throw money at a diesease to make it dissapear, it takes time and scientists
Do the animators know what pie is? Cause I'm seeing an awful lot of cakes whenever the narrator says pie.
The cake is a lie, the video is about Pie.
Perhaps it means something else in other cultures? I don’t know.
It could just be the animators messing us by putting cakes instead of pies
What is shown means cake in german... it's a german channel.
cake actually can be translated in pie and cake.. same meaning :-)
I thought they where talking about a mathetatical constant.
Like the video said, improvement of science would increase if developing countries' conditions were better. Think about all the possible scientists who suffer from horible conditions and what they would be able to invent if they got a proper education.
Artificial Intelligence should be in control of developments of innovations but first we need to develop better systems and programs
How do we know the AI will have our best interests in mind?
Are you implying that intelligence is random and not genetic? There are many scientists from the developing world, the reason that they are rarer than in the western world, is linked to the reason that developing countries are poorer than the western world.
Firstname Lastname Intelligence is not only genetic, though that part plays a sizeable role in it. However, it’s not logical to say that just because there are fewer scientists in developing nations than in the western world then the developing world must have poorer genetics. That’s just racist, period. Who knows what genes there are in the developing world that could spring up one of the most brilliant people to ever exist if that person never gets to have an education? Intelligence has a lot to do with genes, sure, but so does the environment someone is born in.
Can't study shit if you're just trying to not starve to death.
This was an eye opener for me and actually answered my dilemma.
Yup
Get ready for everyone in the comments to suddenly become economists
What happens when you scream really loud at a chubby cute bird?
VALY I like how you don’t realise the irony in what you just said in relation to my comment
And Historians, not to mentions. Oh, and some being the observer like me : the likes and replies, or the ones laughing for those people's bicker.
You don’t get more cake by making sure no one can buy it except for you, you get more cake but finding/ making more bakeries!
But do you need that much?
Also, we Don't have the ingredients to keep building a bigger Pie.
And every time we make the Pie bigger, we make even more mouthes to feed. The Population gets bigger, Faster than we can make the Pie bigger. Eventually, it will all Fall apart.
Innovation *Always* leads to collapse.
@@1000000man1 "Innovation Always leads to collapse." Why do you think so? Please explain!
@@1000000man1 You do realize that a lot of these “ingredients” are not only super abundant, but also renewable, right? Like, you don’t believe that there’s not enough food to feed everyone around the world about 100 times over, do you? The more resources (i.e. intelligent minds) we throw at this issue, the more solutions we’ll find to make these resources more abundant and even more renewable/sustainable.
This is the entire point of the video
Edit: Also, when has innovation ever led to a collapse. A collapse of what, exactly? And what innovations? Medicine? Transportation? Computing? Hell, even innovations in weaponry have never led to a collapse. You can argue that swords led to a collapse in the bow and arrow market, but that’s not even a true argument since a market for swords was created that led to further innovations and conquests….
@@hollo0o583 I don’t think they can explain, because, most likely, they said that just to sound edgy and profound.
@@hollo0o583 innovation always leads to collapse... Just take a simple example of trandport
We invented transportand look what that has done to this world
"you like being alive?"
I really felt that one
Well yeah…
@@pvpcraft2081
Never know. I hear about more people saying they wish they were dead than I do that says they enjoy being alive.
The only problem is that that "getting better" and "evolving" is ONLY for humanity. Nature gets so little, and every year natural parks, forests and rainforests get smaller. Thats egoism
Can we just get Kurzgesagt into a TV show like Bill Nye or something?
+1
@@puppypi9668
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078
@@ivoryas1696
Hoi :>
Sorry, I'm too dense or too lazy to decode it XD
I presume the digits of the delta from the actual value of pi in base 10 encodes some message? But I converted them to binary via radix conversion as an integer (over 10^69 as per the original) and saw nothing XD
(Unless it was that strange unicode character \uFEFF but I think UA-cam adds that to every comment when you copy using it probably as a zero-width non-breaking space instead of a byte-order mark, but either way I'm probably overthinking this XD )
It’s literally just the first few digits of normal average Pi
@@Z3R0Steam
I thought Pi started 3.14159 not 3.14151 ?
the bird having its food stolen and looking sad made me sad
Not so surprising plot twist,
That bird is us ; ^ ;
pussy
The bird needs to innovate and produce weapons! to protect itself ofcourse
Same :(
ooowww sorry Ralph
The world need to watch this
To laugh on it
caesar why laugh?
Dear rain without a cheap labour force the price of everything willincrease
That means you'll have to earn more to bought it
But in that case the guy that makes it will have to earn more as well to don't be poor
that will just devalue the currency and make everyone poorer
So "it's it impossible?" Actually it probably is possible but personally i think that for that we need at least those 2 things
1)Intelligent Robots that would work for us
2)Less people on earth or at least 2 planets to live in
The entire population of my country need to watch this.
caesar We just need technology that improves productivity. What really created the economic boom was innovation in farming, which meant a much smaller population of the world needed to farm in order to feed everyone, so people began to move to the cities to get other jobs making textiles or iron or mining coal or other jobs that further grew the economy
Kurzegasgt really just summed up my shower thoughts from the other day
I love this video. It's too bad everyone has to put their own political spin on it. The question we should all be asking is: why can't we simply discuss ideas anymore? Why do people impulsively label things as "socialist" or "capitalist" as soon as they see it instead of discussing the core ideas behind it? It's such a common, emotional, troll-like response and just a cry for attention without any thought put into it. It's so easy to dismiss any idea as meaningless when you've already draped your own schema-blanket over the idea before you even start discussing it.
Are you implying that discussing the mode of production isn't about ideas?
This video is very obviously liberal apologia. It assumes that a growing economy actually benefits everyone rather than being pretty limited to the capitalist class. And it continues to assume a system of profit incentive, which is inherently dismissive of human well-being.
Dudes so blinded by his ideology he literally can't imagine a better world that isn't just based on magic.
You can't milk a stone.
You do know that capitalist has plenty of socialist aspects to it like roads, public amenities, Medicare, etc. I think the word you're looking for is Communism aka corrupt socialism.
It's not labelling. This is literally capitalism. That's what it is.
I agree, Cory. It's a damn shame.
That's why we need education. More specifically, first world countries need to have a hand in making sure great education can be obtained by everybody. They have the resources.
Honestly, if it weren't for the internet I wouldn't be typing in English, thinking about world development, or learning different kinds of cultures, opening my mind. Remember: knowledge is power. I live in a third world country. My education here is shit. Closed off. Sometimes three to five years dated. For the remote towns, ten years, and the government is too backwards to do something. I learned to self-study using the internet. Look at me now, writing semi-fluent paragraphs expressing my own experiences to a stranger that, if not for my exposure to varieties of people because of the internet, I would just label as a foreign enemy, spouting racist shit instead of forming an attempt to converse, to exchange ideas. We need better education. Everywhere. It's that simple, yet truly hard to achieve.
My next stop in learning is how to speak Espanyol and invest in stocks. Wish me luck. :)
Indeed. The Education system we have in place right now is a limiting factor in helping us achieve a better future for all.
Kudos to you and to a world that has managed to go this far. Still a lot of work to do, though.
Kyr Cookies
I think education would also lessen racism, sexism, and backwards beliefs like homophobia. Thoughts?
Obito Uchiha only education in topics that adress society, like english and history, but definitely, yes. But stuff like math woudnt. Math has a different purpose.
Actually, schools are pretty useless. The vast majority of people don't remember the vast majority of what is taught in schools, let alone use it. It's been proven time and time again that most adults can't even pass 5th grade social studies tests, for instance. Apprenticeships are way better than schools.
Shout out from Norway, I've got a whole collection of shoes now! we can officially stop innovating!
Restore kalmar union! Copy finnish UBI and military doctrine, leave NATO, behead individuals found guilty in amoral speculation!
Allah is not gay, Allah is obviously the stone which the homosexual must kiss before having a private date.
l live in a third world country, so i don't want to stop innovating.
Yeah, but how many bikes do you have, OP?
I CANT TELL HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS VIDEO OMG! a mind boggling, world changing concept!
Kurzgesagt is the only channel i click on the advertisement, so i could support them.
I have no money but i love this channel so much
Kurzgesagt is the only channel I'll stop what I'm doing to watch.
Tyler Benton
It's a perfect channel with no negativity
"Today every 6th person in the world dies of cancer. It could be you"
7.5M views
:(
And theres def ppl knowing they have cancer watching this :(
Cancer takes around 17 years to actually develop into a clinically measurable tumor, so yeah there are probably a lot of people that have cancer watching this without them even knowing it.
That_ Dude read it again, you can develop cancer, it just *takes* 17 years to show up e.g. 9 year old has prostate cancer.
23 year old girl now notices the cancer
@That_ Dude People below 17 years might have a genetic predisposition for cancer. Not every cancer develops as quickly as other cancers and some develop quicker. The 17 years is just an average for all cancers. Child cancers are almost always genetically predispositioned, but are usually able to be treated quite well and not a lot of children die from cancer anymore. Also most people start developing cancer when they're older because when you're older your DNA replication start to become sloppier resulting in more mutations occuring and thus an increased risk of obtaining cancer.
That_ Dude neither do I, just tryna help
@@hankjwimbleton4010 Girls don't get prostate cancer :flushed:
Very selfish of you to make such great videos and educate us all! Thank you, Kurzgesagt, for the quality you bring to education!
i know it's like a compliment and stuff but i have no idea how in any way that can be selfish
Well, yeah
They make money and get to feel good at the same time
Just because you're helping other people doesn't mean it's not motivated by self-interest, if there was literally nothing in it for them they wouldn't do it
Obviously you missed the joke lol. Well if you really want the literal explanation though, the greater videos Kurzgesagt makes, the more people share and watch it, the more views and suscribers the channel gets, the more people see the ads that appear on the channel's videos, the more commission UA-cam pays the channel, the richer the channel gets. Tadah. Selfish incentive structure.
Irrational and stupid selfish people ruin everything so let's educate the world so they don't affect me!
Had this video for an assignment fall 2022 great knowledge!!
Unfortunately, humans are far more likely to be motivated by instant gratification than things that will benefit them in the long term. It’s not natural to think like this.
Wrong! I was more motivated by this than instant gratification.
No, that is just how industry likes to program us so they can sell more goods. Humanity has an incredible amount of examples of having a vision for the future and working hard to get there. Could be you parents or grandparents with such (personal) stories.
Adraria8 absolutely right. It's why we are still stuck on earth instead of flying around Mars on holiday, or why we have coal and not fusion plants etc
Adraria8 That’s why government look out for these long term interests.
Adraria8 the fact that modern day wealth is usually accumulated by investing shows that your statement is false
All for one and one for all!
+zenigel lol triggered at the thought of doing something that might help someone else. its the american boogeyman called "american communism", basically has very little resemblance of actual communist policy.
Woah woah waoh, slow down there, this isn't my hero academia anymore, we are in the real world now.
Black ★ there's also the three musketeers
See but thats the thing, actual communist policy does not work.
"American Communism" doesn't work either, as its a radicalized idea of communism, but the fact remains that ACTUAL COMMUNISM does not work. People are greedy by nature, and unless you somehow change that, a society where all the economic, political, and social power is in the government, will lead to corruption.
Doing stuff for other people is fine as long as its benefiting yourself. Altruism is inherently pointless unless its egoistic altruism.
I like candy.
I am so glad i discovered this channel. Nice context, elegant animations, clean narration, well done guys!
Same. I'm not sure how I originally found this channel but I really like it. Their animation is beautiful and their content is very high quality.
I remember hearing this in a Mark Rober video (dunno if he's the original author of this) : 'The smartest person alive might not have been Steven Hawking or Albert Einstein, it could have been someone else somewhere else but he/she wasn't recognized because they were too busy working just for their own survival'. (May not be accurate)
People on poor, underdeveloped countries might have solutions for our problems but they lack proper education or other necessities to bring it to fruition
I can think of a few more reasons to end poverty, other than solidarity: developed countries are less likely to be the scene of civil war, dictatorship, theocracy and famine = less mass immigration, less terrorism, more stable alliances between countries, more open societies, more opportunities, modernised cultures at the pace of secularism, safety, less international drug cartels, less corruption to fuck up the world economy, better care for the environment on which our existence relies...
Bangurr You should have more likes.
Less corruption lol.
There would be less corruption, as people in poverty are powerless and often manipulated to vote for certain candidates etc
Bangurr Lol poor countries aren’t the reason for our current environmental crisis, that is entirely the richer countries doing. Rich countries consume vastly more than people in poor countries, frankly at an unsustainable rate, much of it on useless junk, and it is this that drives the CO2 emissions, wasteful water usage ect... Even areas in the third world being destroyed are largely due to demand for it in the first world. An entire planet of people based on a economic system (capitalism) where one must expand or die, and thus based on continual increase in resource usage, which is obviously incompatible with finite resources on our planet, is simply not tenable.
That's because it's in its developing phase. When the US and Great Britain were in their developing phases many decades ago, they were the more polluted places on Earth.
It all end on the John Nash’ theorem that says that in a conflict system the best solution is the harmony between the competitors and not the “fight” between them
No, Nash's theorem states that in a game in which a Nash equilibrium exists, a small change of strategy from one player will only damage that player. Game theory isn't interested in either cooperation or antagonistic competition, only multiple rational (even that's not quite true) actors playing by a set of rules with clear goals and strategies. Game theory is above such petty concerns as working together or in opposition, it's interested in the mechanics of how you'd even go about doing such a thing
The entire human population working together is what we need. But I don't see it happening anytime soon. The people in power are too interested in short term gains that will only benefit them and those in their circle, with little regard for the future of our species. It's a shame really.
Short term election and profit cycles.
It's not just people in power, the vast majority of people would rather have themselves and their own people benefit at the cost of others.
I think society's like this. People don't care about the cure of cancer unless they suffer from it.
selcuk polat
Exactly, people only really care when they or their close friends or family are suffering from it. Otherwise it isn't something on their mind, and they won't ever be donating money to help cure it.
Actually, most of what we interpret as corruption is just being a good politician. The job of someone in power is to stay in power. this is achieved through gaining money, then paying the people who put you in charge(keys). If you are in a dictatorship the number of keys is small and you spent the least amount on the common good. If you're in a democracy the number of keys is great and a lot of money is spent on the common good. Politician are the nicest form of ruling we have yet produced mostly because, as the video says, they are part of a positive-sum game that rewards you for being nice to the greatest number of people.
What your left with is mostly remnants of the old zero-sum game meta and basically the rules for rulers. Check out "the rules for rulers" by CGP Grey if you want to find out more about the dynamics of ruling over something.
I'm 14 years old, my first job will be to learn English, I'm glad there are subtitles
There is an old saying in China:
穷则独善其身，达则兼济天下。
It means give if you can, but keep what you need.
Indeed, there is no point talking about how to speed up the cure for cancer when you are still struggling to find a place to sleep or eat. It should be at our best interest (and everyone's) to care for ourselves first, and look after others in need only when we have the ability to do so.
穷而心系天下是为狂，达而闭门谢客是为佞。
古人诚不欺我焉。
Except what if you expand the "You" to include everyone, so everyone has enough of what they need. We actually have the resources to do this right now. Just not the mindset.
Well, you can't contribute to the world if you don't take care of yourself first. But humans have plenty of ability to help others even in poverty. Any kind of help counts. It helps the people around you, then the community, city, country,...
Hey, I have a question. I was listening to a Great Courses Plus audiobook on the history of China, and the professor mentioned that the symbol for well looks like a tic-tac-toe board? He says this is because of the history of the well-field system, which was a form of collectivist commons agriculture.
Is this correct? Can you post the character for 'well' as in, the water source, so I can see for myself?
To answer that random question: 井 (jing3) is the chinese character for well and yes it does look like a tic-tac-toe board, but I've no idea if its shape originated from collectivist agriculture, though it would make sense on hindsight.
Altruistic suicide. Hmmm...
*THE BIRD JUST WANTED SOME CAKE! 😢*
Unfortunately It was a lie ;)
The cake was actually not a lie
I know right, PIE was promissed, ive not seen any PIE in a few comments
This is one of the only videos that aren’t scary and are actually happy
"every 6th person dies of cancer and you might too"
"happy"
@@kelpdock8913 he probably just loves the illustrations and don't mind the scare tactic the narrator spews his mouth LOL
Did you watch ant wars?
Optimistic Nihilism by this channel is also kinda hopeful
Or sad depending on how you look at it.
"Do you like being alive?"
Either inspirational or threatening