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If we want to build back better after the pandemic, we must reconsider philanthropy and create a new kind of capitalism that's rooted in generosity and accountability, says Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation. In this vital conversation, Walker calls for citizens and corporations to question the inequality that makes their wealth possible, to think about their own complicity in creating economic injustice and to celebrate the critical role art plays in creating a culture that uplifts everyone. (This virtual conversation, hosted by head of TED Chris Anderson, was recorded July 1, 2020.)
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Fun fact: *Everyone else Including me Who is commenting right now hasn’t even watched half the video yet*
Not even gonna watch till the half point
Ar Fumo yeah, this guy is just adding to the already false narrative in the States right now.
causability.org
Teri u are always asmmm
This is significantly easier to watch at 1.5x speed.
All video at 1.5 or 2.0 except Ben Shapiro, .75
WOKE
School 5 has came out with a good amount of quality videos using white board animations and presenting interesting different topics across the globe.Its a new emerging channel,but I am really impressed by their works.so I recommend you all to support their videos because we can hope that our support can help them to create a huge number of quality videos that can help us to know in detail about many interesting topics,that we will even never have thought about in our lifetime.
Money talks if you don’t have it, attain for a better career.
I like it that they decide what ideas are worth spreading. Seems like u have something in common with social media CEO
I Disagree
The human race, through rampant overpopulation and toxification of the global environment, is a species in distress. Until we have dealt with those overarching realities, social division, unrest and the continued degradation of our planets ability to sustain life will continue.
Our food supply is oil dependant.
Please Google:-
Green revolution.
When I was born in 1948 there were 2 billion people living on planet Earth. Now there are 7 billion. The Green revolution made that possible.
Three ways our food supply is oil dependant.
The Green revolution – a range of agricultural chemicals that tripled food production.
Farm machinery powered by diesel from oil.
Transport powered by diesel.
The discovery of oil peaked in 1964. Since then in each decade less oil was found than the previous decade. In 2019 Rystad Energy reported that the global discovery of oil had declined to 9 billion barrels. Mankind consumes 36 billion barrels PA.
9 billion barrels is sufficient to run the world for 3 months.
9 billion barrels is 27 billion barrels short of what is required.
Soon demand will exceed supply. Price will escalate. Eventually oil products will become ESSENTIAL SERVICES ONLY.
Expensive oil means expensive food.
A shortage of oil means a shortage of food.
Please grow your own food.
The next crisis is a food crisis.
Regards Gray
Australia
This is one of the worst TED talk videos I’ve seen so far.
I’ve been subsribed to TED for years.
I watched the whole video (as hard as that was) before committing.
A Lifes Matter.
I’m ethnically mixed, and got more distant from Blacks thsn another other group because I don’t wallow in their in their project/welfare mentality. As a single parent I when to post high school education to a good job. I bought a house that was a fixer upper and myself and the childern did work on that house so in six years I could barrow against it to buy a better house.
There are opportunities for people who look for them.
You should thank our Feminists for fucking over the black population. They promoted the ‘victimhood’ in blacks under the guise of kindness & saying they should demand compensation for wrong doings…
–The problem with that is as you likely have seen… Blacks on average stop… they don’t attempt to get past the first set of failures in their life & demand they be compensated for it…. & the issue with that is .. ‘live is unfair’, and EVERYONE but prodigies fails a good number of times before they find their success… we just don’t hear about it most the time.
Blacks have been made mental slaves to masters that they invent…. and now they are having their entire essence used to destabilize a nation, attack others, & take from them. I wonder what it would seem like to people if we could see everyones life. Blacks are useful for the coal for burning everything to the ground.. They have been installed with mentality of failure, so they can be used as coal to attack others. [surprisingly sick if you ask me]
— All the while, the ones doing it are doing in the name of kindness & are genuinely immune to critique…. and the real kindness gets treated as well evil.
—- How much would have been different if in the 70’s/80’s we instead ‘declared’ racism against blacks gone & that any black that failed .. did so because THEY failed. would that IDK .. maybe promote personal accountability or the drive to succeed past the obsticals in the way… because ‘you’ve been oppressed & deserve compensation’ clearly has produced worthless black community whom teaches their kids to be mental slaves to masters that they make up.
How to disrupt Corruption in Philanthropy
Respectfully, Darren, you manage a $13.7 billion philanthropic organization. You have a lot of privilege! Much more than many of the people whose minds you claim to read. I know you think that those with privilege feel entitled to skip to the front of the line and that they should give it up, but I’m wondering who actually feels that way (I’ve never met anyone who feels that way) and what exactly you expect people to give up.
Let’s say an underrepresented minority gets a bachelor’s degree, and is now making $40K per year rather than just scraping by. Is that person privileged? Is that person allowed to celebrate their success? Is that person allowed to save for a year so he can buy fast pass tickets for his family when they go to Disney world, so that they don’t have to stand in line all day? Do you think that the fast pass shouldn’t exist? Do you think we should all stand in line in solidarity with those who can’t afford the fast pass tickets? What about those who can’t afford the ticket to get into the park? Should the theme park not exist because its existence only benefits those that can afford to go? Similarly, should private schools not exist, because their existence only benefits those that can afford to go?
I’m an overrepresented (Asian) female minority that went to a private university on grants, scholarships, and student loans that I’ll be paying off well into my 40s. Any student that got accepted to that school with similar financial background would have had the same opportunity to either pay for the expensive education, or choose to be in less debt and attend a public school. At my first job after college, I made about $40K per year. Am I allowed to say that I earned it? Am I allowed to believe that my hard work, effort, sacrifice and financial choice to go into student loan debt for that private school education contributed to me reaching my goal? You say it’s about standing in solidarity with all of those who believe your diagnosis that income inequality is the problem. Implicit in that is that anyone who disagrees with you is being selfish and privileged, including those that make $40K per year and donate to charity, and save up for nice experiences for their families. Is it fair that I made $40K per year after going to school for years (and taking on debt in the process) while some of my neighbors made less? Is it fair for me to be able to save and be financially responsible when others have trouble with financial responsibility? Some people might say that it’s not fair that I was able to get a private school education by borrowing money, but anyone with the background I had who was accepted to that school would have had the same opportunities to borrow. The only privilege I had was getting in, and that privilege was due to the grades I got at a community college prior to applying to that expensive school. Was I privileged to pay for community college on student loans, grants, and scholarships? Was I privileged to grow up with grandparents who valued education?
I believe what Chris said about language and inequality and working together to make the world a better place. I won’t deny my students the privilege of celebrating their successes. They had opportunities and took advantage of them, much like you did, Darren, and now they have the privilege of saving and spending their own money. Anyone with a college education and any kind of financial freedom (even that due to saving and spending from a small salary wisely) would be labeled privileged and entitled in this scheme. It seems that the only way to be considered “woke” is to be financially irresponsible OR to agree with your philosophy that any income inequality is wrong. Making $40K per year while your neighbors struggle isn’t fair. Contributing and giving back isn’t enough. Only when everyone makes exactly the same income and spends it in exactly the same way on exactly the same products and services will the world be truly equitable. Of course – I don’t agree with this, but it’s implicit when you say that the fast pass at a theme park implies that some people feel entitled to skip to the front of the line. That’s not true. Some people believe that if you save your money, and you prioritize some things over others, like skipping to the front of the line at a theme park, you are free to choose to spend your money that way, because you earned it. I don’t think it’s wrong to appreciate the fact that your efforts (and all of the efforts of those who supported and loved you) got you to where you are today.
When you prejudge people as entitled, when you create a straw man that is so ignorant, arrogant, and easy to attack, and then you put people in that category, you are engaging in prejudice. Prejudging and assigning motives, attitudes, and other attributes to people that they don’t have is what prejudice is.
Real change requires listening — even to those people who you want to put in their place. You’re putting people who make $40K per year and put themselves through school on student loans in their place while sitting as President of a foundation that distributes $13.7 billion per year. I know you think those people who don’t agree with you, those people who think they earned their $40K per year, are the problem, because they fail to agree with you, but you aren’t really listening to them. Implicit in your assumption is that anyone who disagrees with you is arrogant and ignorant. Only people who agree with you are truly humble and informed. That’s pretty self-serving… You’re prejudging them based on your preconceived notions of who they are instead. I think I understand where you’re coming from though…I wouldn’t like that straw person either. That fictional person is truly arrogant and ignorant! Thank God that person is a figment of someone’s imagination and doesn’t actually exist.
That being said, there was so much that you said that I agree with, Darren, and I loved the quote from the article that had the word nuance in the title. Nuance is right. Humility, empathy, kindness, and a willingness to solve problems together is the way to go. Attacking people who recently went from poverty to being middle class through getting a personally funded education and thinking that their hard work contributed to that is a distraction from larger and more important issues. Those attacks, and that participation in cancel culture, are fun for some people. The self-righteousness and schadenfreude are addictive. Some are drawn to it because it feels so good (to them) to look down on others. I hope we’ll focus on seeing and addressing real problems instead. Telling people that they have no right to believe that their hard work contributed at all to their small salary is attacking the little guy from a place of privilege. What do they call that? I think I read somewhere recently that it’s called “punching down”. When a person who runs a $13.7 billion dollar organization attacks someone who makes $40K per year for believing they earned it, and then using that money responsibly to have nice experiences with their family, I think that may qualify as punching down. It doesn’t elevate the narrative or solve anything to belittle the people you hope will change their minds. It’s probably the easiest way to make someone defensive, and least effective way to change their minds and even less effective at changing the reality of income inequality.
Very good, ma’am, very good.
Apathy and the lack of moral direction will undermine any country.
The risk in forming a ‘Social Bond’ issuing Foundation is asking some people to judge others and thereby form themselves into a ‘supremacy.’ We all aspire to a perfect place, its just not here.
ugh, buzzword galore.
This does not apply to 95 percent of your public! So … non topical?