poverty is not a lack of character. poverty is a lack of cash. /

--- Rutger Bregman at TED 2017

From the transcript,at 14:33 (the final words of the presentation):


Now, more than 500 years after Thomas More first wrote approximately a basic income, or 100 years after George Orwell discovered the true nature of poverty,we all need to change our worldview, because poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.







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