Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash

Name: Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash
Uploaded: 2017-05-22T15:06:14Z
Duration: 14 min 48 s
Description: "Ideas can and do change the world," says historian Rutger Bregman, sharing his case for a provocative one: guaranteed basic income. Learn more about the idea's 500-year history and a forgotten modern experiment where it actually worked -- and imagine how much energy and talent we would unleash if we got rid of poverty once and for all.

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Rutger Bregman |

TED2017

• April 2017

"Ideas can and do change the world," says historian Rutger Bregman, sharing his case for a provocative one: guaranteed basic income. Learn more about the idea's 500-year history and a forgotten modern experiment where it actually worked -- and imagine how much energy and talent we would unleash if we got rid of poverty once and for all.

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capitalism
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equality

Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash

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