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Hans Rosling, GapMinder.org, on why the washing machine may be the greatest modern invention in history.
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Students don't want everyone to have the -- reshape.
They haven't fourteen through they get concerned about one thing in the world and then therefore get realities and I also I also -- How many of you and what's your -- and -- sheet.
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So it's some sort of we design -- because it save so much time.
That that.
That do you assume all of industrial revolution everyone warned if they have the chance and when they open and they say not only does he work not -- the power station and -- -- The -- chemical processing industry.
He isn't it good talker.
Was honest about that he corrected -- also this video is not viewed by several 100000 people -- viewed by how many.
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- and you do a presentation that for most of history people were miserably poor.
Die before age forty only recently have things changed and you do to church.
Where this is life span.
-- -- right so well this is wealth.
And for most of history people have been down here only -- recently United States some other countries are here but.
Many people are still we have -- here stock.
Yet this is 18118108.
Grew almost -- in -- sick and the poor corner and then they started to move and obviously is these isn't representational what you really should look at on the red -- -- these it's -- at -- -- and you can see that some countries are getting wouldn't give these United States of America.
This is -- that visit that I'm I'm with the with even richer but the United States had decided to catch up isn't that can you see now now there can be little state.
And New Zealand in the not a whole lot to tighten up this entry United States is -- -- and they are pushing forward with technology and the functioning market economy and hopefully that -- that.
Look bloated public -- things is being done via the rest of the world that does dominate the China yeah.
Africa's dark -- is on the agree the Arab countries but even the sixties.
They if they first get healthy educated and get smaller fabulous and then -- helping -- -- market economy as a good thing.
And they start to grow their economies -- -- catching up and to a day when we 2010.
Most that they.
These other countries that borrow money to the -- when they have debt problems.
And in my -- this raises two questions are two amazing results from this to think about.
There's been thousands of years of human history and everybody was stuck on the lower left.
Served thousands of years it's just been 200 years that you have all this activity and how come some countries are still stuck.
Let's get ready easier to understand that this country's stock and that -- -- -- -- -- -- and called what its civil war of the best.
Message today is that most of the African countries on the -- past economic growth.
They have corrected that -- market ideas they had twenty years ago the -- have a much better education eleven of their.
And in -- Tanzania.
Has the biggest situations he knew that -- Thailand 1972.
And we being fourteen years we can see African countries -- -- what Asia's done so this is wonder.
Well all our problems are solved we know what works you know we're all gonna be rich because we have this problem that's did.
To billions are fairly human beings on the public and it's not because that's -- I -- bomb thing I did most of my research here in the poor part of the world.
Order poor people -- member on the what that would be debt if you are poor and you have stupid you -- they don't have rule of law.
They don't have who -- -- they don't.
Have access to credit and they are locked in -- vicious circle -- but it takes some similarly investments.
To get them out of that to meet you see this types of fat and shows the aptitude -- But the young couple of these side.
To grasp for the call bubble for the.
And to have two kids that's when they decide we invest in these choose if we build the decent house that they should have a better life that's when they take off.
And we -- to -- family's from here and all the -- that.
I think the world is governed from the bad.
It's not the big corporations and banks around the economy the bad that the young couple who decide to work call.
And once they get educated as some wealth they tend to have some multifamily -- some.
Something to -- These fantastic investment in smallpox vaccination polio vaccination that haven't felt so you don't have one kid who is.
Physically handicapped for the rest of them like that -- the family now.
Since they're weighing the government resources are used that these groups I would -- that -- But they -- something.
It's like vast he's such and primary school and we do you really need the government money but -- schlopy would.
It has to be control thank you Hans rosling next.
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