Poverty
topic on 6 shows · 9 statements across 9 episodes
We Live to Build 
American Optimist 
the Knowledge Project 
Masters of Scale 
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the a16z Podcast
9 statements about Poverty, every show
Sinofsky: China lifted a billion people out of poverty through factory labor
“What China was doing was taking all the hundreds of millions of poor people and letting them live temporarily in all the factories of all kinds, clothes and cars and computers, whatever, and live for part of the year, and then bring massive amounts of cash bac…”
Gov. Wes Moore: Billionaires are not a policy failure, poverty is
“When people say that being a billionaire is a poverty is a policy failure. No. How many people living in poverty is a policy failure?”
Housel: Measuring personal human worth by net worth is profoundly dangerous
“Don't think that all poverty is due to laziness and don't think that all wealth is due to hard work. It's not. If you are just ranking people by their net worth and ranking their value by the net worth, that's probably the most dangerous thing you can do with …”
Arthur Brooks: Free enterprise is the only force lifting people from poverty
“What I found is that the free enterprise system properly understood is an expression of the generosity that we can bring. When we push it to the margins of society, there's no other force that can lift people out of poverty.”
Lonsdale: Single-parent household rates are a top predictor of poverty
“One of the things data shows us is one of the best predictors, if you want to fight inequality, if you want to fight poverty, one of the best predictors is the share fraction of children who are single parents as opposed to two parents”
Winston: Government anti-poverty programs succeed only at unnecessarily high costs
“Poverty has declined, and some of government policies have certainly contributed to that, but it's so expensive to do that, and oftentimes there's, you know, multiple policies, you know, to address poverty as opposed to something that's more streamlined, more …”
Bimani: Poverty persists because families teach survival instead of advancement
“They taught me how to survive, but not to get ahead. And that's where a lot of people in poverty struggle is that they're taught how to survive, but not how to get ahead in life and make future generations better. And that's where the struggle really is.”
Brooks: Escaping poverty reduces unhappiness rather than creating happiness
“Money never bought happiness. Even early on, you find that people actually have a higher affect balance. They feel better about their lives when they go from poor to not poor. It's absolutely true, but it's not because they're getting happier. This sounds like…”