When will PolyMatter hit 100k subscribers? Enter your guess here: goo.gl/forms/VJqaYlbqrotiuk3s2
@ahyes2375
6 жыл бұрын
PolyMatter when i lose my virginity
@megantvenstrup7687
6 жыл бұрын
Tomorrow.
@alfonsomena8141
6 жыл бұрын
PolyMatter 100k unique accounts two yrs.
@UnapologeticallyEboni
6 жыл бұрын
PolyMatter If I get the day right and the time wrong will I still be considered a winner?🤔 Great channel btw after this video and the N. Korea video I am subbing! ...I never sub after just 2 video's But the effort You put into your video Is truly evident
@UnapologeticallyEboni
6 жыл бұрын
I took a guess
@tcjusttc5418
6 жыл бұрын
My favourite quote in this presentation: "Like everything political, the assumed explanation should never be kindness or carelessness, but rational and selfish calculation"
@Tuppoo94
3 жыл бұрын
That's right. And it's either done by governments or by individual politicians, who may want to raise their profile by "giving money to the poor".
@jamesmccarthy2072
3 жыл бұрын
@@Tuppoo94 Of course
@vistalover9607
2 жыл бұрын
Also don’t forget political parties. Americans are really bad at conceptualizing that their favorite party is part of an on going joke. Just in entirely different ways.
@hopes3836
7 жыл бұрын
There are two types of people: 1) Those who are worth mentioning.
@nietsnethceil4639
7 жыл бұрын
....and those who do not, brilliant comment!
@jeffersonclippership2588
7 жыл бұрын
that's the joke
@eshwarkumar8138
7 жыл бұрын
Cornelius Funk but he gets the joke
@fatsuschungus744
6 жыл бұрын
RainbowShark are not*
@kmk1225
6 жыл бұрын
He gets it
@reubena7854
5 жыл бұрын
"The hand that feeds you controls you "- Thomas Sankara
@annadess
6 жыл бұрын
I'm just here to say that I read The Dictator's Handbook and I love the way you made videos based on it. Thank you so much!
@simetry6477
6 жыл бұрын
Sounds like the prince.
@samuelluce8286
4 жыл бұрын
It’s a great book, I found it from CGP Grey’s video
@rebelbeammasterx8472
6 жыл бұрын
Another problem is that foreign aid hurts growing business in those countries. It can't pull itself out of poverty. It's the old saying: Give a man a fish he's fed for a day, teach a man to fish he's fed for life.
@sperzieb00n
6 жыл бұрын
the whole paradox here though is that no one will teach the man how to fish, unless the dictator says so.... aid is like dealing with a hostage situation
@jackgray3267
6 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile America gives weapons to 72 percent of the world's dictatorships...
@theendurance
6 жыл бұрын
There cant be any development until there is education of the masses of society on how to utilize their resources. Till then, those countries will still be severely underdeveloped
@robertjarman3703
6 жыл бұрын
It can be used much more effectively to get the capital to get the businesses, ideally freelancers and cooperatives, the things they need to get the job started. Many of these people are lacking a good credit rating, a lack of anything to base a reason to be given any sort of contract or agreement, a lack of reliable consumer base, and often significant externalities that can throw them out, like a sudden drought. In the US, people basically expect that Microsoft will at least have some good reasons to base any desire for loans and stock purchases and have routinely paid them back, and that people will continue to want computers and be able to afford computers. These things often don't exist in many countries. Helping to break that cycle is hugely beneficial to many people.
@Blaze6108
6 жыл бұрын
A good part of correctly-done foreign aid includes oversight on aid. You don't just kinda throw money at some barely-democratic country and go "ok, do what you want", you should have tightly-regulated contracts that state precisely how aid is used.
@capitalismisbestism8639
7 жыл бұрын
Giving foreign aid to third world countries really fucks with the local business, especially the clothing and food industry.
@lalit5408
7 жыл бұрын
what are third world countries
@eruno_
7 жыл бұрын
@Lalit Singh Rana underdeveloped
@SuperLusername
7 жыл бұрын
コイノ/ Koino The funniest thing about third world countries is that they are not defined by being poor, they just happen to be. 1st world countries were USA and its allies, basically NATO and couple of others. 2nd world countries were the Warsaw pact countries and the rest of Soviet allies. 3rd world countries were non-aligned. An example of a 3rd world country at the heart of Europe which was more developed than any 2nd world country was Yugoslavia. However most of the unaligned were from Africa and South-East Asia, large majority of whom were poor.
@eruno_
7 жыл бұрын
@Evilsamar I know where the term originated from, but today years after the end of cold war when people say 'first' and 'third' world they mean it in a sense of developed and undeveloped
@ProfessorSyndicateFranklai
7 жыл бұрын
+Evilsamar That's probably because those countries are forced to choose if they're powerful enough. If a country is not important, who cares if it's first or second world, but once it has enough power in the world, it must choose between the two politices.
@PolyMatter
7 жыл бұрын
This is an off-shoot of the wonderful book that inspired CGP Grey’s Rules for Rulers video. As you can tell, it’s a really thought provoking read - I highly recommend it. Hope you enjoy the longer video, and welcome all the new subscribers!
@lodadio
7 жыл бұрын
PolyMatter hi I was first, I love ur videos
@ThreeReichsandYoureOut
7 жыл бұрын
I swear you were at 2,000 subscribers not a few weeks ago. Great video. Foreign aid is like many things, people think it's great and helps the poor but in reality it only empowers terrible people.
@prwninja
7 жыл бұрын
Except everything you said about how foreign aid works and its effectivness is not only wrong, its also irresponsible and dangerous. There is lots of examples of how foreign aid has actually helped people around the world. It has brought food security to millions, eliminated diseases ( Polio, Smallpox ) and improved economies faster than if they didn't get the aid. And also what does dictators have to do with foreign aid? Lots of foreign aid goes to poor but democratic countries (like India). You're maybe thinking of North Korea and assume that's how it works around the world. Does foreign aid always work? Of course not. Can it have bad unintended consequences? Yes, definitely. Poor planning and implementation has led to worse consequences for some of the countries receiving aid, donating clothes for instance (though mostly from private organizations and citizens) has harmed clothing industries in Africa. So yes we should think before we give foreign aid, but saying it's ineffective is irresponsible and not supported by facts.
@gregorymalchuk272
7 жыл бұрын
PolyMatter We should not even have foreign aid until we have fully funded Foregen to undo the damage of lNFANT ClRCUMClSlON.
@MrSamas13
7 жыл бұрын
Polymatter, what is your background ?
@vee2easy
5 жыл бұрын
taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries. foreign aid 101
@abduazimt3821
4 жыл бұрын
Lol
@jeffbenton6183
3 жыл бұрын
My understanding is that this isn't true. In the US, though, the poor and middle class pay disproportionally more in *state* and *local* taxes, nearly all foreign aid comes from the federal government. The rich pay more proportionally in *federal* tax dollars than the middle class and the middle class more than the poor (though the super-rich pay less proportionally than the rest of the rich, the system isn't perfect). On top of this, The US federal gov't only spends 1% of it's annual budget on foreign aid - that is one penny for every tax dollar. Foreign aid has problems, but it seems to me that it doesn't have the one that you describe.
@darksteiner631
3 жыл бұрын
@@jeffbenton6183 But that money could also be funnelled into improving your state further isn't it?
@jeffbenton6183
3 жыл бұрын
@@darksteiner631 Not necessarily, more than $150 billion federal dollars are wasted each year on "waste, fraud and abuse", according to the agency responsible for monitoring that sort of thing. On top of that there's other inefficiencies inherent in the system. In looking how to fund domestic priorities, it's important put things into context. The federal gov't spends something like $600 billion per year on the states (not including the recent $1 trillion dollar infrastructure plan, and the whole rest of the federal budget all of which benefits the domestic economy). It's hard to see how the paltry foreign aid budget could do more to help the domestic economy if redirected. More importantly, there are better ways to recover more funds for the gov't. To start with, America's Healthcare system is broken. If our system were as efficient as Switzerland's, then the federal gov't would be saving $250 billion annually. If it were as efficient as Germany's that we would be saving more than $500 billion (And the individual states would be saving tens of billions or more as well). An even easier solution would be a financial transaction task, which could bring in $200 billion even if it would be one percent of one percent of each transaction. Redirecting our foreign aid funding to various domestic priorities would not be felt by the average American, because America already spends so much on itself. It simply would not be worth the catastrophic blow to our international reputation that would entail. It would be seen as the equivalent of a billionaire not willing to give even a penny to a shelter for the homeless.
@mickisei3547
6 жыл бұрын
This video just explained why most African countries are poor.
@the_jujuman5269
5 жыл бұрын
Clorox Juice there’s a lot of factors.... but yes this is a huge part.. so people who say that they’re inferior in governing or cultivating resources are wrong. You have greedy leaders and countries that have ulterior motives country’s foreign aid
@aaroncohen2700
5 жыл бұрын
@@the_jujuman5269 It is irrelevant even if those people can't figure it out. They have other to look to but no one tells them.
@HitomiAyumu
5 жыл бұрын
@@JaKingScomez Inferior is the wrong word. They are uneducated. YOU are lucky to be educated. If you lived there, you would be just as stupid, if not more so.
@eldermoose7938
5 жыл бұрын
@@HitomiAyumu it doesn't help that most of the intelligent and industrious will leave your country, for better opportunities in the very countries depriving them of such thing at home
@lolllol6693
5 жыл бұрын
No its called evolution. And iq bellcurve
@emperorinfinite
7 жыл бұрын
I like how you select the topics. They're always so on point and thought provoking!
@superstandard
4 жыл бұрын
Its better to invest in businesses and infrastructure rather than outright giving handouts...
@linusschmutz3985
Жыл бұрын
First they must have a functional government.
@jeeveey
7 жыл бұрын
How are you not famous yet
@soggycatgirl
6 жыл бұрын
He's doubled his subs in a month.
@matthewrevell2706
6 жыл бұрын
Because his videos are clearly wrong if you have any education or knowledge in geopolitcs, economy, and history.
@_wheeler8601
6 жыл бұрын
Matthew Revell, You and I can sit and call each other names but that won't change our view points. If you are going to claim someone is wrong please state not only the reason why their wrong but also the past experiences and quotes proving him so.
@alfonsomena8141
6 жыл бұрын
Jack Evey he is infamous
@alfonsomena8141
6 жыл бұрын
Matthew Revell let me guess you have been born and raised an American and don't understand the island dictatorship
@andreasoctavo
7 жыл бұрын
Well, now you've *really* sold me on that book. You should've partnered with Audible or something, I'm sure lots of people would have used your link.
@shannyboi3098
6 жыл бұрын
hi what book is this again? thanks!
@AndyTurba
6 жыл бұрын
Check 6:12 of the video
@tomeubank3625
6 жыл бұрын
In the past, US aid may have been dominated by long-term national interest, but now it's driven almost exclusively by short-term gain for closely-held US corporate interests. The primary purpose of US foreign aid (both federal and chsritable) is to subsidize US special interest, which are driven by either private businesses (i.e., profit) or public NGO's (i.e., political power), and the latter are usually controlled by the former. E.g., the huge amounts donated to the Red Cross for Haiti hurricane relief were sucked up by US contractors with minimal long-term benefit for the Haitian population. And during the more recent debacle in Puerto Rico, US politicians demonized the Puerto Ricans for rejecting the sub-standard contractors that had been awarded special-interest contacts.
@amyj4586
5 жыл бұрын
can u explain in simpler terms pls, never done economics before :')
@bryanpena7268
7 жыл бұрын
I really like how you used a layout similar to Civilization. The gold per turn, declare war on.
@tryingmybest206
5 жыл бұрын
Bryan Pena how tf did your comment get so many likes
@neohchenlun2
4 жыл бұрын
and also the nuclear gandhi reference
@amorosogombe9650
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! This is such good education for taxpayers in aid giving countries. The real problem in developing countries is tyranny. What's worse, modern military technology, often bought with this aid makes it even harder for poor people to dislodge tyrants. It's one thing taking pitchforks against a single load musket that can't hit anything with any accuracy past 20 meters, it's quite another going up against a helicopter gunship with a gatling gun when you are armed with stone catapults and slingshots. There was a time last year in Kenya when the Chinese refused a loan to the government and the people were absolutely elated. They applauded China. They regularly tweet and post on the UK and US Ambassadors pages begging them to please cut off aid to our country. We eventually get the bill for it, but never see any benefit, so better to not get the aid and be in less debt when we finally throw off the shackles of tyranny. Glad to see ordinary Europeans finally getting a higher resolution understanding of how poverty, geopolitics and injustice work in this world! Want to see an end to Mediterranean boat people (if I asked you to walk to the nearest town to your hometown you would balk, think about the desperation that would make you consider crossing the Sahara AND Mediterranean)? 1. No aid to tyrannies. 2. No weapon exports to tyrannies. 3. No buying oil and other blood minerals from tyrannies. 4. No diplomatic relations with tyrannies. 5. No storing the money from tyrannies in your banks. 6. No allowing the friends and family of tyrants to travel to the west. 7. No giving blatantly rigged 'elections' where the tyrant gets 98% of the vote a clean bill of health. Any 'aid', if you really want to help, should only be directed to helping topple tyrants with overt/covert operations. EU/Western foreign policy should be 'we do not transact with tyrants'. If you do that 1. You save a tonne of money. 2. Your imports become ethical, not blood imports. 3. The tyrants are left up sh*t creek without a paddle and then 4. WE will deal with them and sort ourselves out. Africa has literally EVERYTHING. As in you name it, it's here. Only problem is the bunch of tyrannical miscreants at the top stealing everything that's meant for the people. That's what needs fixing. We can and should fix it ourselves and have in some cases to great result but it would be nice if you would stop helping them. It's in your interests that they fall too.
@amorosogombe9650
3 жыл бұрын
Just to show you guys this isn't just hot air here are some links. See the truth for yourself: kzitem.info/news/bejne/2Z5mvJV-j6tlYGk
@manghariz2211
2 жыл бұрын
Sadly, the one who initiate the funding, ussually have a ton of interest to keep these tyrants on power. And sadly the normal people, cant and is having a hard time differentiating it. They will say that those aids is for the good of the receiving nations, just not the details of those aids are weaponry that is used to strengthen dictator's grip on a nation.
@benjamo0o0
7 жыл бұрын
I like the video as it provides a concise Mercantilist-ish view on foreign aid. Though I don't think this view applies in all or even most situations. The main problem, I think, with this perspective is that it always assumes leaders to be completely self interested. I don't believe that this is the case. Leaders, I think, are like the rest of us: a mixture of self interest as well as care for our fellow man. I think some democratic leaders are interested in vote seeking and maintaining power. Others are interested in policy seeking. And most are somewhere in between. Also leaders of less democratic and more dictatorial countries are often more interested in their country's development than one might think and, like in South Korea during the post-Korean war era, can be interested in economic development through any means possible. In the case of South Korea, US aid did not create a situation in which the semi-dictatorial leader Park Chung-Hee was more able to exploit the aid and make off with the money, but led to a situation where South Korea is now the 11th largest economy in the world. Also, some factual fuzziness in this video include that people are mostly opposed to giving aid. A quick google shows the answer to this question to be more nuanced based on which surveys you read. Also aid doesn't always mostly go from Democratic countries to non-democratic ones. To provide an example, the US provided Aid to help rebuild Western Europe in the Aftermath of the Second World war to the tune of 132 Billion dollars (in todays terms) with the express purpose of propping up democracy, which was a definite success. The answer to the question of aid is more nuanced and contextual than can be provided in a 6-odd minute video. I'm not sure if I agree with the book either, but I have yet to read it and make any conclusions based off that. Anyway, thanks for the video. Cheers!
@robertjarman3703
6 жыл бұрын
That democratic spirit only applied to the countries in Europe and Japan. Anyone else was fair game for a coup. Particularly the places where natural resources existed. Sometimes local situations meant that they couldn't be authoritarian, at least not as much, Singapore could not afford to be poor and brutal, and so while Lee Kwan Yew would be considered a shrewd businessman in the West, he was far less authoritarian than Mao or Hitler, and built Singapore on a relatively corruption free and richness because it was a vital centre of trade and had nothing else to sell. The benefits of becoming non corrupt and rich for everyone outweighed the negiatives and the threats to his power so much that Lee Kwan Yew decided to take the risk. Israel faced many enemies at first whose leaders wanted to make the Holocaust look like a walk in the park. A king who can be killed in just one battle can decapitate the organs of the state and with him or her dies even the best policies of a king, Israel could not afford to be authoritarian to at least it's own Jewish population. The Dictator's Handbook is a shortened and simplified version of an earlier book called the Logic of Political Survival, written by the same authors, which has a lot of math in it and more examples, like, hundreds of examples, and also tries to falsify their hypothesis, rather than confirm it once they laid down the hypothesis and explained it's likely implications. That did a really good job at why leaders behave the way they do, and also gives rational explanations for why rulers have different ideologies. Lenin was actually a genius when he adopted the new system of a classless society ideal. It gave him millions of people who could replace disloyal Politburu members should he need to, and his Politburo knew it. In the old Tsarist regime, the Tsar could only pick from a handful of nobles if he needed a replacement. The then celebrated liberal Leopold the II of Belgium was king of Belgium and Congo at the same time, and so had the perfect experiment to see how a ruler of each would react to power.
@argis1342
6 жыл бұрын
Ever seen CGP Grey's Rules for rulers? Rulers can't afford to have interest in their fellow man. kzitem.info/news/bejne/04mqsmukooRomqg
@gregbridges2540
6 жыл бұрын
I highly encourage you to read The Dictator's Handbook.
@Moosetraks21
6 жыл бұрын
We need systems in which a leaders self interest aligns with what the people want. This way we never have to wonder how selfish a leader is, either way he will have the best interest of the people as his main goal. If his wants and needs depend on a happy population.
@rwatertree
6 жыл бұрын
The Marshall plan and aid to South Korean and Japan are outliers. The US exercised a near colonial level of control over the Asian countries and only had to rebuild existing infrastructure but not political systems in Europe. In contrast modern foreign aid goes to countries with almost no democratic tradition or existing infrastructure.
@itumo2645
6 жыл бұрын
The alternative is Foreign Direct Investment. Its how nations like Ireland, China etc have been able to rise out of poverty.
@myleg...
6 жыл бұрын
capitalism
@swesleyc7
5 жыл бұрын
@@myleg... Exactly. It's the best way.
@myleg...
5 жыл бұрын
@@swesleyc7 Ireland doesn't need the bureaucracy of the EU. They're just some more trying to control us. We need to be our own country. It's so sad. The sniveling weak, control us. I went to Brown. I'll change it. Remember the name McColland. I vow it. We're already a growing economy. I will bring our nation into something we can be nationalistic over. Bí bródúil as, bí feargach
@pedromeneses5661
5 жыл бұрын
@@myleg... capitalism does not believe in nationalism btw, capitalism stems from the neo liberal economic ideology, being nationalistic means rejecting the outside, and if you reject the outside world, throught the form of tariffs and whatnot, and that is what North Korea is doing. Capitalism is not compatible with nationalism. Fascism and socialism are compatible with nationalism. The very notion of nationalism brings socialism to mind, capitalism is openness to the world, attracting the worlds best resources to one's country, legally of course, be it in form of material goods, or human capital. That is the neo liberalistic way and the capitalistic viewpoint.
@myleg...
5 жыл бұрын
@@pedromeneses5661 nope; capitalism is the idea of taking from idiots and giving to the smart. We are smart, they are dumb, thus we should get their wealth, and they should die. The problem is when we have people like you who think that everybody has equal worth. Nope, we do not have equal worth, and we got socialism. Fuck off. The weak shouldn't pass on genes, and the strong should. It's the only logical way to go about life. If you don't think that way, sorry, but it means you're one of the weak ones.
@jonathandavies6862
6 жыл бұрын
I love these videos. Great editing, high quality graphics and amazing audio which alot of people take for granted. Crystal clear to understand, interesting to follow to the end, honestly advertised and spectacularly interesting. Keep up the brilliant work @PolyMatter
@TheUmnez
7 жыл бұрын
Holy shit this is the 2nd time this channel turns around my perception of politics.
@Mrine2372
6 жыл бұрын
The book is really great, "The Dictators Handbook" it's worth a read. And along the same lines, but more classical is Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Prince." Both of these are the basis for American Politics. They both explain why bad behavior is just good politics.
@pornhubchairman7
6 жыл бұрын
Umm I think you should do some research before coming to a conclusion. It's not always good to just to rely on what one person has said. Maybe this video can open up your mind to do some more research but don't let this one video determine your definitive opinion on this topic.
@mesoanto1031
6 жыл бұрын
Hey only God is holy! Holiness is the most dangerous thing in existence this will determine who goes to heaven or hell
@matthewnewton8812
6 жыл бұрын
If a six minute video with some hokey animation and facts unsupported by citations “turned around” your opinion on this matter, then you hadn’t given it enough thought to begin with. And being so thoroughly convinced by this video you are now guilty of doing exactly the same thing in the opposite direction. I urge you to gather as many facts and sources of evidence as you can before formulating an opinion. Follow the evidence and allow it to dictate your opinion, rather than coming to the conclusion that fits your political affiliation and cherry picking the evidence that backs it up. Then you will not be a helpless creature blowing in the wind and vacillating wildly between opinions as soon as the next fact comes along. I suppose I shouldn’t be too critical though. At least you are willing to change your opinion in the face of what seems to you like quality information (this is not). Many people cannot do that. So you have a major advantage. Go do some research, learn your facts, and you’ll be a great contributor to civil society- somebody who knows a lot but is willing to concede when they’re wrong. Go forth!
@HitomiAyumu
5 жыл бұрын
@Jack Turner Oh thankyou princess. That isn't obvious at all. Oh wait it is.
@seanbarry1757
7 жыл бұрын
Sometimes i bathe myself in gravy and pretend im a turkey on thanksgiving
@romanbaranovichi5375
7 жыл бұрын
Sean Barry what the bloody hell
@kelseybayley6371
7 жыл бұрын
Sean Barry same
@andreasoctavo
7 жыл бұрын
Sean Barry Hey! I do that too!
@muddywater5036
7 жыл бұрын
sometimes i jizz on myself and pretend it's chocolate drizzle
@jumbazix4249
7 жыл бұрын
Sean Barry I thought I was the only one
@samharper7001
6 жыл бұрын
The Dictator's Handbook- best book I've ever read
@PikaPetey
6 жыл бұрын
nice
@elmo2383
6 жыл бұрын
N I C E
@dogiz6952
6 жыл бұрын
Oh, look. It's you again.
@rand0mcraft
6 жыл бұрын
why are you here?
@bankyokojoe8537
5 жыл бұрын
@@rand0mcraft because he's a human, not an animation dumpster.
@hello-o3i
4 жыл бұрын
Didn’t expect to see you here at all!
@Ultrasound700
6 жыл бұрын
I don't remember subscribing to this channel, but I like it.
@sithis3651
7 жыл бұрын
So giving aid to countries like venezuela is almost bad?
@_____._..--_
6 жыл бұрын
유자 Yes, giving aids is good. Like how america gave HIV to pakistan
@bloodfiredrake7259
6 жыл бұрын
Obvious Troll. Yet you still got baited. Congrats ok fuck you.
@robertjarman3703
6 жыл бұрын
Giving money to cooperatives is good, they need local support to win and have a hard time being manipulated by the government. Don't give cash or other things really to the government though. Other things worth doing is making immigration laws such that it's easy to find a new place to live. If the people of Venezuela can just pack up and leave, Maduro knows that his population is not necessarily going to stick with him, and will have ever fewer people to tax which si necessary given that oil prices are so low. Make the world less dependent on oil and renewable energy, or at least find places to buy them from home, like North Dakota, Alberta, and Norway. Very good ways to help end the dictators of the world.
@GhostInTheShell29
6 жыл бұрын
The Point of Foreign aid is to buy the loyalty of dictators. Venezuela refused America's offers in the past, why they no longer get aid. And get a lot of attention from the CIA. Until such time as the people rise up, and replace the evil dictator, with a Pro American evil dictator. Then they will get foreign aid again.
@pie5567
7 жыл бұрын
CPG Grey 2.0
@kekero540
6 жыл бұрын
Seth W a cgp grey that uploads.
@Nietabs
3 жыл бұрын
Except It's about economy and politics
@carlramirez6339
2 жыл бұрын
4:29 "Dictators can't steal economic development" Nicolas Maduro says "hold my beer"
@xADGamingx
6 жыл бұрын
Really surprised how great content on this channel hasn't gotten enough attention as it deserves.
@y__h
6 жыл бұрын
I watched an IMF ad before this video starts playing.
@pneumonoultramicroscopicsi4344
7 жыл бұрын
Been here since 6k! Gotta go prove it before you get 2 mill!
@sirfluffythegreat420
2 жыл бұрын
He's at 1.59 million now 🤯
@daisqwq
7 жыл бұрын
Here before 5000? Keep it up polymatter! You make the best vids
@martintirpak1033
6 жыл бұрын
this is the best channel I came across in last months! I just subscribed and I hope you will get many thousands of new subscriptions soon. I even clicked bell icon, even I don't do it 98% of the time! Keep it up! :)
@tonydempsey4869
4 жыл бұрын
A few months ago I started an international development course with the intention of getting educated, joining and NGO and making some kind of positive impact. Now I'm learning that aid and NGO's can perpetuate poverty. What can I do instead? What's the alternative?
@amyz2289
2 жыл бұрын
Your help may go into providing/teaching skills . So that the people have choices
@alecbasba
6 жыл бұрын
I started watching this video and I knew it right away where you got the subject from. The Dictator's Handbook is awesome.
@kieran596
2 жыл бұрын
03:30 "The more aid is given, the more free a leader is to do what he wishes". - Said whilst showing a graphic of a collection of points scattered at random with no positive correlation at all
@spurrya
6 жыл бұрын
I really enjoy your channel providing a rational, critical thought behind common practices. I wish to think the way you've expressed your content and concerns. 10/10 would be best friends :P
@TheMorris360
7 жыл бұрын
Nice video, PolyMatter!
@jim767
7 жыл бұрын
Hey I really love your channel, keep up the good work
@MoonatikYT
6 жыл бұрын
This channel is so down to earth it hurts.
@Ubeogesh
6 жыл бұрын
just found this channel and so far it loooks as good as CGPgrey and such...
@weefie1233
5 жыл бұрын
I wish more people realized this. Throwing money at a problem doesn't solve it.
@chumpcity4388
5 жыл бұрын
Use coins, once you start throwing coins at them, they soon change their mind. They hurt when hit
@pedromeneses5661
5 жыл бұрын
Injecting money into an economy inevitably leads to inflation and destabilization of the general economy, the 2008 crisis could have been avoided for the most part if governments didnt interfere so much with the economy by injecting and inflating an already injured economy, creating a vicious cycle of panic which lasted for a lot longer than it should
@naingchanmyae
7 жыл бұрын
0:51 the calculator displays thoughty2 ... I mean 42!
@icantthinkofausername8964
6 жыл бұрын
Uh how is that a factorial?
@SmithdoesMinecraft
6 жыл бұрын
42! is a factorial. I was confused as well lol. I was thinking thoughty2 had some factorial video lol
@Perririri
3 жыл бұрын
* #DouglasAdams
@Niidea1986
4 жыл бұрын
A good example of conditioned aid is Peru during the 90's. Then President Alberto Fujimori is considered a "soft dictator" and one of the most corrupt governments in Latin America. However, the disastrous government of Alan Garcia (85-90) turned Peru into a failed economy, basically the 90s version of Venezuela, and Fujimori and his economic team had to plead for aid, mostly from US and Japan, under condition of strictly following their economic measures. His government went to history as generally detrimental for democracy and civil liberties; however, for those who know all the amount of work that had to be done to repair the economic damage, at least in that regard Fujimori did an outstanding job that allowed 30 years of stability.
@qdis662
4 жыл бұрын
The handshake at 1:15 freaks me out 😅
@Flechashe
6 жыл бұрын
Nice video and intelligent reasoning. Today i learnt something. And i want to read the books now.
@pants1337
7 жыл бұрын
Great video! What software do you use for animation and drawing? They're smooth and beautiful. (I'm assuming the drawing is done in InkScape, and final edit done in premiere pro? How about animation tho)
@_____._..--_
6 жыл бұрын
pants ズボン Sony vegas and unregistered Hypercam 2
@mikasaserket4785
6 жыл бұрын
pants ズボン I would assume a vector program like adobe illustrator for the drawings and After effects for the animation and effects
@PolyMatter
6 жыл бұрын
Theelo5, I wish it were that easy!
@pants1337
6 жыл бұрын
When he replies but doesn't answer the question.............. :(
@0728John
6 жыл бұрын
PolyMatter adobe illustrator and after effects?
@DeTrOiTXX12
6 жыл бұрын
Your content and animations are great. Well done!
@myideapark
6 жыл бұрын
Wow, your videos are super well thought out. Subscribed!
@billylardner
7 жыл бұрын
I’m sorry if this is a question asked often, but how do you make these awesome videos? I’m sure many people, including me, would love to follow in your footsteps.
@billylardner
6 жыл бұрын
This guy started amazingly :P, but good advice.
@eli9264
7 жыл бұрын
Great vid
@GrantozBoys
6 жыл бұрын
I really like all of your content. It is nice to see good quality videoes, with lots of thoughts and preparation, instead of all those crappy YT video´s, that have nothing in them, but only were made for money. So much support from here, keep it up!
@ibrahimhassan6566
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much my country have been struggling due to this foreign aid
@LlywellynOBrien
5 жыл бұрын
Having studied the field of aid for years, I feel compelled to put it out there that this video is borderline propaganda and in no way represents scholarly consensus on almost any of the points raised. The core problem with the video is that it makes incredibly strong claims which sound kind of common sense with no attempt to connect this to the real world and with no evidence. Additionally both the outcomes and the hypothesised mechanisms are, at best, simplified to the point of being misleading. Some of these issues are genuine to some degree, but not in the way nor to the degree that this video suggests.
@HitomiAyumu
5 жыл бұрын
The evidence is in the book he cited. Its called The Dicators Handbook.
@LlywellynOBrien
5 жыл бұрын
@@HitomiAyumu I am not sure that satisfies my concerns. I acknowledge that one can find a variety of books expressing views along these lines (though usually no quite so severely) but that really isn't much in the face of the overwhelming consensus of academics and practitioners in this field.
@PillowForce
7 жыл бұрын
Your editing is so god damn good
@PillowForce
6 жыл бұрын
still looks smooth af
@WellWisdom.
6 жыл бұрын
I just found your channel, and enjoy your content very much, thanks for the heads up.
@davidawakim5473
6 жыл бұрын
Damn, this stuff is really good :p You deserve wayy more subs
@petermarschall2637
7 жыл бұрын
Dude, you're absolutely amazin' and I fockin' love u.
@rotems3470
7 жыл бұрын
REMEMBER ME BEFORE BEFORE HE WILL BE FAMOUSSSSS
@alexanderohnenachname6159
5 жыл бұрын
I really appreciate that you named the book your video is based on as well as pointing out other videos based on it. Giving credit where credit is due should be a no-brainer, but sadly isn't.
@daniels7861
6 жыл бұрын
This guy should have 100k subs already
@jameul363
7 жыл бұрын
1:01 Yeah b4 he nukes u...
@mill2712
6 жыл бұрын
Not if you nuke him first.
@aryamanagarwal3751
6 жыл бұрын
Isn't this video directed at US and Pakistan?😂
@aryamanagarwal3751
6 жыл бұрын
LagiNaLangAko23 So true! Lol
@MrSidkhan1
5 жыл бұрын
Lol randian, u still get aid, esp from uk. This video is directed at so called power. Lol randia
@06.vineethdsouza80
5 жыл бұрын
@@MrSidkhan1 UK aid to India ended in 2015
@QasimAli-to5lk
4 жыл бұрын
@@06.vineethdsouza80 and US aid to Pakistan ended in 2016
@domadordepollosmm
6 жыл бұрын
0:58 love the reference
@potatolord7319
6 жыл бұрын
the problem with your solution is that we wouldn't be able to tell if the criteria is being met due to the very unopen nature of these countries. even if we could make letting some people monitor it part of the contract(we probably could) how do we know they haven't been bribed. keep up the good work, loved your analysis.
@danielblack4190
4 жыл бұрын
Your solution would never work because the leaders would never accept it. It's not beneficial to the dictators (obviously) or the elected officials (the policies that they want would never be implemented). Such a system could only work if an elected official is genuinely nice, but if he/she is, they would never be elected, as politics doesn't work on kindness, and the votes gained from implementing the new aid policy are probably going to be less than the votes gained from taking advantage of the new policy implemented by the dictator in his country. It would be an effective system, but it's never going to be implemented, as there's simply no political advantage. I'm not a political scientist, though. This is just what I think, so take this with a grain of salt.
@Lynn-rv4ty
7 жыл бұрын
i’ve never thought about this.... and I think the solution you offer is a great idea
@lucygoosie3370
7 жыл бұрын
You are too goddamn good in both the quality of your animation and the quality of your content to only have ~55 thousand subscribers!
@fauzirahman3285
4 жыл бұрын
On the other hand, not giving foreign aid has introduced a new problem lately. For example, there are a number of democratic nations in the pacific that Australia provides with foreign aid, but in the last decade, the budget to this has gone down drastically. So what has happened now is that China has started to step in and provide with foreign aid instead, and this has seen a lot of international support favouring China.
@zachb1706
3 жыл бұрын
Australia is mini China that likes to think its the us
@sunpreetsingh5160
6 жыл бұрын
It's based on Dictator's handbook by Bruce Mesquita and Alastair Smith. I have read this book and I can say it's one of the most amazing book that I have ever read .
@Joe-po9xn
6 жыл бұрын
Tribe is an excellent book, and very insightful towards human psychology. Especially regarding the military, and people in general during a state of conflict or war.
@hanguyen5101997
7 жыл бұрын
Good stuff as alway.
@olivierwesterheide881
4 жыл бұрын
Poor countries don’t need money, they need good leadership
@satevo462
3 жыл бұрын
Most of the foreign aid we send are weapons, not food or medicine.
@wclifton968gameplaystutorials
5 жыл бұрын
"Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid." - Paul Kagame "Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents." - Idi Amin "You cannot develop people. You must allow people to develop themselves." - Julius Nyerere
@tsplatt10
7 жыл бұрын
You are the next big channel
@benlalammohamedrachid3112
6 жыл бұрын
Loved the CIV game referance mate.
@MarinelliBrosPodcast
3 жыл бұрын
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”-Lao Tzu
@Jono1795
7 жыл бұрын
I spotted that iPhone X 😜 Good video btw!👏
@blazikem
6 жыл бұрын
_e w_
@cheydinal5401
6 жыл бұрын
0:57 Great Civ5 reference :D
@machiavellianintrospection4986
5 жыл бұрын
This video is wholly necessary to those who advocate for Sunshine Policy.
@ultima199g
7 жыл бұрын
Many of these same principles could be applied to social programs like welfare.
@jeffersonclippership2588
7 жыл бұрын
Not really, in a rich welfare state the people actually see a lot of benefit from the money spent on those programs. It's distributed directly through them instead of to one person who's supposed to hand it out but doesn't.
@neeneko
6 жыл бұрын
Not really. If we were going to draw examples from liberal democracies, things like farm subsidies, tariffs, and corporate tax breaks would be closer. Ironically, the call for ending welfare is a LOT closer to this effect than welfare. The key piece is that you need individuals who's fortunes are not tied to state of the people they are ruling over. Welfare is a form of infrastructure investment, it ties the economic benefit of leaders to the economic condition of citizens, thus has the opposite impact.
@jeffersonclippership2588
6 жыл бұрын
That is true, liberal immigration polices plus a generous welfare state is pretty retarded.
@matthewrevell2706
6 жыл бұрын
Not at all.
@DarkLord111111111111
6 жыл бұрын
It really is like that. People who receive welfare want to keep receiving it if they can live comfortably. That's why they have no incentive of changing their situation.
@NoName-sb4vu
7 жыл бұрын
Now explain the problem with foreign AIDS 😂🤣😂🤣
@mesoanto1031
6 жыл бұрын
5:31 Conditional subsidy? No dictator likes to be toyed with! When they are good they are rewarded when they are bad they are punished? No democractic government should be supporting any dictators! We should grant sanctuary for those who escape those dictators as long as the refugees pass a phycological test
@alanpdrv
6 жыл бұрын
Interesting take on a controversial topic. I would have also added that there is also the classic "Dutch disease" problem with aid: when you send a lot of money to a country with a low GDP, its currency can overvalue too much, making it more difficult for the country to export products and thus develop manufacturing industries (the problem is similar if natural resources like oil are discovered in the country). A couple of things. The recommendation you give at the end for aid, as a condition of improvement of life, is well-intended, but the result of that tends to be that the money goes to poor countries that are already doing relatively ok, and not to undeveloped, stagnated countries. So the people who need the money most will actually not get it. There are several instances where aid is proven to work. When there are big changes happening in a country (such as new good policies being implemented for its development), it helps to give aid but in the form of skills (instead of money), as in skilled people who can work together with government and civil service in order to implement the reforms. When time passes after these reforms, aid in the form of skills starts to not be useful, and aid in the form of money for budget support starts to become more useful. These are only two statistically proven examples where aid can become useful, so yes, I agree that aid has to be given more strategically in ways in which there is evidence that it works better. If you're more interested in the topic, read "The Bottom BIllion" by Paul Collier. Great animation by the way!
@bootygrabber4000
7 жыл бұрын
I love this channel
@hairohukosu433
6 жыл бұрын
This video was so great it really bothered me that your last text box had (but didnt close it. Also gotta go back to my little Tropico...
@bostonwatts9060
6 жыл бұрын
I love your channel, but here's some constructive criticism: sentences like, "Most people think their government gives too much aid, but it doesn't matter because they vote for policies that it can buy" (2:45) are difficult to decipher. Specifically, it takes too much thought to understand what "it" means in that sentence. I've found this to be the case unfortunately in many of your videos. I have to listen to them very slowly, and interpret what you are trying to say. I know you like to keep your videos fast-paced, and that's ok! But in that case you especially need to make sure your ideas are structured in a way that makes it easier on your listener. Keep up the great content! I love being a subscriber :)
@becool365
6 жыл бұрын
BP is actually operating in the US . They just kept the name after being privatised.
@ouafallouz
6 жыл бұрын
Flawless explanation ! Subscribed.
@zullandzzx
3 жыл бұрын
gotta love that sid meier's civilization reference
@UvstudioCaToronto
6 жыл бұрын
Foreign aid comes in different forms and shapes. Most aid is given as goods rather than cash. Money is often spent on domestic contractors and other domestic industries to send goods over to wherever help is needed. So, foreign aid in a lot of cases is actually spendings in your own domestic markets which benefit first and foremost your own citizens.
@crabobserver
2 жыл бұрын
Is that you can block it with Duke
@kendelion
6 жыл бұрын
Sounds like what happened in the Philippines 5yrs ago i heard.
@Mazark
6 жыл бұрын
0:59 that civ reference :D
@ekulsnave9227
6 жыл бұрын
Great video, you’ve earned me as a sub!
@TimothyChapman
6 жыл бұрын
This is a well-thought-out video. I wish all political videos were like this. I would love to see someone put the theories in this video to the test!
@paulkonkol3227
4 жыл бұрын
I m in the beginning of a journey to find out more about foreign aid, but I can already tell that this is a vast and dangerous over-simplification.
@mihajlo961x
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for all of the on point Civ references!
@JatPhenshllem
Жыл бұрын
"Like everything political, the assumed explanation should never be kindness or carelessness, but rational and selfish calculation" "Politicians make deals, not citizens, and their interest is to first and foremost stay in power"
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