Why poverty?

"Why Poverty" is a series of eight documentaries about poverty.

Documentaries understand poverty from a historical perspective. In prehistoric times, poverty was the inability to guarantee survival. In the civilized era, poverty means that life cannot be guaranteed. Poverty in modern society, Africa and Latin America is actually caused by colonial powers.

Before colonization, the economies of Africa and Latin America were not that bad. The currency in Africa before colonization was cowrie shells. When the colonists arrived, they said the shells could no longer be used.

As a result, even the rich man who owned a pile of shells in the past suddenly had nothing. The slave trade, war, and disease ravaged this land, making it impossible to escape poverty.

In different historical stages, different levels of development, different cultural backgrounds, and different natural environments, the answers are different. When wealth is accumulated to a certain extent, can poverty be eliminated? I'm afraid only time can give us the answer to this.

Perhaps ten thousand years from now, the world's population will have stabilized and emerging resources will be abundant. At that time, when I looked back at the current gap between the rich and the poor, I just thought it was unbelievable. It would be great to just treat it as a joke. ?