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  • 7/9/2025
Poverty, Inc. esplora il lato oscuro delle buone azioni. Dal soccorso in caso di calamità alle scarpe TOMS, dalle adozi | dG1fdkVldXFwVnFhcTg
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00:00www.mesmerism.info
00:30It comes from a good heart. People give us food, they dig us wells, they bring us shoes, they encourage others to give.
00:37We're going to make poverty history.
00:39The problem is, it does not work.
00:42The foreign aid amounted to a huge subsidy, hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:48Tom's Shoes found the right model that captured this love of people who want to be generous and helpful.
00:54Our donations have an unpredictable impact on the local economy. Why would you go buy something? It's for free.
01:03Emergency disaster relief has become the permanent model.
01:07After 40 years, if you're still here, there's a problem.
01:09What happened to our cotton farms? That's all gone because of the negative impact of their imports at a second-hand level.
01:16We rich countries that produce a lot of food should sell it to poor countries. It has not worked.
01:21It actually created more poverty.
01:24We don't need one more celebrity doing one more campaign.
01:28What we need is to no longer be excluded.
01:31No one wants to be a burger for life.
01:36I know about countries that developed on trade and innovation and business.
01:40I don't know of any country that got so much aid and it suddenly became a first world country.
01:43If you really want to help the poverty industry as we know it, it has to go.
01:49The sooner we tell a beautiful story about the African entrepreneur doing amazing work, then we will begin to shift mindsets.
01:58They're not desolate. They have hope. They have a way to get out of it. There's a way to fix it.
02:03When you do something, you can see the impact on the population and you can say, this is because of me.
02:11Having a heart for the poor isn't hard. Having a mind for the poor, that's the challenge.
02:16has to come.
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