Ireland, that recent story where they donated money to Native Americans during this coronavirus pandemic to thank Native Americans for their donation to Ireland during Irish potato famine.
@@hacyil190 That's a great story too, I did not know that. I was referring to a money donation that the Choctaw tribe made to Ireland during the famine which is commemorated by a statue in Ireland.
@@hacyil190 dude :) rather than complaining and trying to be nonchalant. Can't you just appreciate that generosity for Native American? I mean... It's not a competition... By the way, i m aware that you wana give us more detailed about that history point. But you can do that kindly ;) have nive day.
@@brent4674 No, it isn't. And for many very good reasons. It is, in fact, number 40 (at time of writing this), and ONLY because America exports a lot of pharmaceuticals. It figures that big pharma, appears to be the only reason why America isn't more like number 100 on the list right down there with African countries, doesn't it?
@@pauljohny200 this isn't competition, these are facts. I don't want this to be a competition, I want other countries to do even better than Ireland. Go cry to bunker boy.
I remember reading about Ireland's overall levels of altruism before but as I understand the metrics for measuring these and others forms of helping have been revised in recent years (in tandem with changes throughout the world as we know of it), so although Ireland may still be among the most charitable I don't think it is considered to be the most altruistic (granted the new metrics being used and their emphases are a matter of revised interpretation)
@@Aenthel Well I don't think even with new metrics that Ireland would suddenly be at the bottom of the charts. And I don't think the USA will suddenly be on top either. In fact, I think whatever metrics you're using, roughly the same results should be had.
@@QodeMusic well I admit some of my comments have not been stated directly, I am not disputing Ireland finding a place somewhere near the top of these rankings or even at the top as far as altruistic countries may be calculated, rather my comments were about why Ireland is not in the same place as before, which is something of a consequence of significant changes to the type of metrics now used
Visiting Ireland in 2009 I looked around me and The thought that struck me was "This is the most civilized country in the world". Apparently I was right. 🍀 Love you back, Ireland
yet we the USA are still the country most refugees want to come to, we are the country everybody looks to when disasters happen to help, and that's fact, not his statistics setup to get results he wanted
Go tell that Crap to some body else.!!! Remember the Orphanage of BLACK Children, on 43 St, York City, IN 1863? During the Civil War??? >A Mob of Irish Immigrants ATTACKED It and Burnt It down to the Ground! YEAthe Irish are great people. The Empty Lot is still there today on the North West Corner. Check it out!!! What a Dumb Video
tbh only NGOs/charities would figure in that list, and maybe some co-operative/family owned businesses. All corporate companies serve their investor's needs first, lenders 2nd and rest is meh
There is such a list for pharmaceutical companies with some great results. It's called the Access to Medicine Index. For example, MSD has pledged to work on onchocerciasis by producing the curative drug for free (for 100M people a year) until it is no longer necessary. A PR campaign, sure, but it prevents millions of cases of blindness worldwide.
Before we go to sleep our thought should not be I am glad Ireland exist it should be I am glad those 10 countries exist. Because together they do a huge deal. If you only thought I am glad Ireland exist well without the other 9 countries the world would be doomed. You need those other 9 countries because Ireland alone is not what we need.
If you imagine the world as a glass of water, and all of its molecules as people in the world, you can get a good picture of the problem we face with globalization. When you put a drop of colored fluid into the glass (an idea, a nation, etc) you see that the color swirls around and, with time, eventually dissolves into the entire glass. At first, the color is strong, vibrant, and rich (rich culture, rich history, etc) but then fades away, being absorbed into the system (globalization). At other times, molecules in this glass may act more like oil than water, resisting absorption in the system by clinging to older times and ways. So if you imagine this, what you see now is a glass full of colors and fluids, suspended in odd shaped bubbles and looking like liquid stained glass, splitting and joining, mixing and molding, to fit into the world. Over a long time however, the absorption is inevitable, and it will happen, hopefully very peacefully... but this is the true problem: Drop a firecracker in your glass. Liquid splashes everywhere (death), colors mix rapidly creating a blend of odd new colors and fluids, and every color is marred with a bit of soot making the entire glass darker. War changes the world quickly, and that is what the true powerful globalists want, WAR.
Berny Mcbilly Thanks for bringing me back to this thread. I had forgot about my conversation here. Unfortunately, the debate didn't end well but I liked my points. DIVAD if you're ever ready we can finish this.
Wrong! A type one civilization must be fully globalized and thus collectively create methods to protect itself against the analogy you used here instead of stay isolated from each other to protect themselves.
MyDefendor Q Sure....just simply roll over and let the self-proclaimed, "Élite" , continue to use and abuse you. Speak for yourself. "World Government"?? You poor pathetic slave...
Went to the site. Ireland dropped from 1st to 8th. Interesting to see that in a few years a country can improve or slip up and down the line by the choices its leaders make
The point of the 'talk' was not to belittle or glorify a country by giving stats that you may or may not agree with. Rather the point is just to prove how the world can become a good global village, if each country enforces goodness 'externally'.
The microphone rubbing on his beard give this whole presentation the unique vinyl touch. Love it :D As a German who has been many times to Ireland working and travelling, I can say: I love Ireland a lot! You deserve it!
People usually respond more to loss than to wins, so I think if you completely flip the index and call it the most selfish countries index, then it might have a bigger impact haha
Midi Music Forever No it isn’t top contributors, it’s top altruists. For example, the US would be in the top if it were top gross contributors because they give more overall, but less per capita. Ireland (at the time) gave the most pet capita, but not the most gross
@@jackytaly Contribution per capita, of course. But that wasn't the point. The point is that the list is about contribution, not about altruism. Selfish acts that have positive secondary effects count.
If China and/or India are spending more energy supporting their own citizen then world citizen they're still helping 10-15% of the world population each...
Yes if it helped ALL of the people in that country, then yes. The problem is that a lot of policies in China or India do not help or contribute positive to everyone or that vast majority of the population. And that is in my opinion the biggest reason for the low score.
+johiidk, no, this index only looks at what the country contributes to the outside world, not how it treats its own citizens (there are a lot of other indexes that already do that).
So it's not to be interpreted as how much is a given country's contribution to the world (including its self) but the world minus it self? Or am I completely misunderstanding the scoring system.
Exactly. There are other indexes that shows what the citizens of a nation think of their own country based off of similar metrics. So if you look at these indexes and see countries that score high on both, i.e. the people living there like living there, generally speaking, and they contribute a lot to the rest of world according to this index - that should make one think - how come they can contribute so much to the rest of the world but still have great lives at home? Are there more countries on these indexes that score high and do similar things with regards to politics etc? And if there are, why isn't my country doing that?
well you can consider that as 10-15% of the population helping themselves, per capita, china and india aren't helping as much as other countries, no matter how big they are.
As a person living in the US I can say I'm happy we are no where near the top of that list. We are selfish, violent, narcissistic people who parrot what we hear. I know a lot of Americans are commenting about how unfair or untrue his data is, but really, take a step back & look at our country! Look at what it's done to other nations & people around the world. If you can call that 'good' then you are oblivious.
21st for the only considered superpower in the world is way higher than one would expect. Your comment is just stupid. Take a look at the eastern comparable ones like Russia or China. There's no logic in what you're saying.
***** Dangerous? Ashamed? By 'they kick puppies' do you mean funding foreign civil wars, not taking responsibility for the civilian lives lost in drone strikes, unending imperialism, or....? I don't express my opinion for likes on RUclips. Please leave the insults to children.
Countries with a weak social safety net are feeling pain now. No job means no money, no money means no food. Many boss's, businesses and customers are paying people now, needed or not, because we know they have no other means. It is a holiday with no where to go and nothing to do.
I am so happy to see my country *India* at 44 Rank. We came at 44 from more than 120 rank, some years ago. We are just 3 positions below the US. I hope my country keeps improving and the rest of countries too. Coz it's only meaningful when all countries improve.
I don’t know you political allegiance but that video is from 2014. Yes we’ll grow as a country. But BJP is in power so I think the rank if not forged will deteriorate
I don't think the graph is very good. How can the UK be 7th and then 2 years later vote for Brexit. How is Denmark 9th for culture when their immigration is really stick and they try to preserve their Nordic race. Who's deciding what is good? seems pretty loose to me.
@@yourmastergggg4402 Imagine creating multiple terrorist cells and organizations, toppling multiple sovereign governments, invading and bombing multiple countries and occupying them all against UN policy and international law. Imagine having more military bases outside your boarder than half the world countries have in their borders, then imagine having a military budget bigger than the budget for health, education, etc. combined. Guess which country i am, and am ranked far better than Russia. And please can we all imagine having such a turd for media corporations which only spew false propaganda which you soak in like a good little sheep you are.
I am Irish and I am quite blown away by this i know back in the 1980s when we had mass imagination and high unemployment we donated more to the 3rd world per capita than the rest of the world. Us Irish have had a very oppressive history full of hunger loss and strife we have been cast to the four corners of the world. Our country is still partly occupied by a foreign power yet we don't hate them but we are full of empathy for oppressed people in other lands.
Lies. It is not 'occupied'. You have no right to take land unless the people living there agree to it. You still claim all the people there as Irish despite this.
As an Irish man born and bred...I honestly had no clue we were as big of an influence within these 6 years 2 other countries have overtaken us in these charts with finland being no.1 and Ireland no.3 now..still very proud of this really...it's time the small forgettable countries start making some noise. Sláinte Mhaith 🇮🇪🇮🇪❤️❤️
@@sonny9493 Silly? Sir, the damned right-wingers in my country are talking about „national blood“ to sell their racism. And that’s not funny Captain Ableist.
I love how he doesn't chastise the lowest scoring countries but instead fits it into a narrative of development. That's how you convince them to come on board.
The index is too subjective on its composition and weight. Data of each country is also collected on different levels according to the website of index. So it’s positive but the rank means little.
Even though, as many people keep pointing out here in the comments, the data is likely to be flawed in more ways than one and the list/rankings might be flawed as a result, that really is not the point. It's about trying to be good globally rather than "own country first" and people here fighting about which country is good or bad or why these rankings "suck" is showing that people still don't get it. It's not about you and your country, think globally goddamnit, that's the message. Judge your country by what it's doing for humanity, don't judge other countries because you think your country is surely doing it much better and should be higher up the list, that's exactly the attitude Simon tries to change.
I realised how deeply thaugh we are to be competitive when my first thought when I saw my country was 6th place was "yess we're above they and them" after listening to a whole speech about not being competitive I still wanted to "beat" other countries, this is my favourite ted talk so far.
It's not about being competitive or not, but what you're competitive about. I feel blessed to live in a country that scores high on this list (hope it still does!). ... thinking about this: shouldn't other aspects of sustainability be added to this index, especially environment?
everything starts with the definition of "the most good for the world". e.g i recognize one of the most good action to put down US as a world wide dictator and liberate the countries from its vassal position e.g. EU. it would be nice to stop US to suck economically whole the world. from this point of view i see US ranked last while it is for me the most parasitic country in the world scientists are paid by government organisations or private sector. both have significant influence on this stupid propaganda presentation ... china, russia, india in the end ... real propaganda with no value
I think he is trying to rank countries that share technology, but like I was saying, this guy seems a little creepy and shady. The US don't need to share their tech because everyone hacks it. Is that accounted for in his pretty little chart?
+Shi Nobi you actually think he's ranking countries who share tech? And you think the US don't share tech because people keep hacking it? Stop thinking that America is the world, and that it's "hacking problem" is worse than others. I am Irish, and was slightly lifted in spirit when Ireland was ranked #1, but we also have our own problems. Maybe the reason America has such a "hacking problem" is because you are such a big country and because your pathetic excuse of a president is "the most protected man on earth" it must be an extremely important nation and have extremely useful information.
+Salad Man ha,as much as you'd like that. Putin would like to avoid war against USA at all costs. reason is Russia can't keep up with USA on military power and their planes and nukes are rusting away...
Aero Not really, Hillary already has, and will continue to mess things up. Destabilizing Libya, funding terrorist groups, funding Saudi Arabia, the Iran deal, deteriorating relations with just about everyone, further embedding the US in NATO, etc, etc, would Donald Trump have done any of those things? probably not
+chasem007ify actually Saudi Arabia is paying for protection, and I think you meant Israel instead lol and we are getting bombed by terrorists as we speak no? dude,trump idea of spending more on military is one of the things Romney got rejected. trump wants to be allies with countries that would love to distroy us ,and get farther away from our countries we can trust?!? no way is any of his ideas gonna work lmao,he d be impeached before he even does anything reckless,unless you want another Venezuela...
+Scott Matheson Being generous is part of irish identity,not saying we are great we are not,but generosity and hospitality has always something that is important in irish culture
ThePizzageek A kind of a backhanded compliment their.Its the famine it left a huge mark on our psyche ande the fact that we are a small nation we all know one another and there is still a sense of comunity and family structures are fairly strong still
@@stoney7145 well saud but its being destryed rapidly by a ridiculous goverment brown nosing Europe our culture is being destroyed from external and internal forces
+algis mitkus Post-war England was built in a time when you needed to store your hot water. Tepid, stagnant water attracts bacteria and parasites and leeches minerals from whatever it's stored in, so you'd want to keep your cold, drinkable water separate from your hot, yucky water. This is why only houses build in the last couple of decades have mixer taps. It isn't that they didn't think of it, it was just a terrible idea.
I found the lack of context through the lens of the world's media a bit disappointing. Surely that has a huge effect on perception. It would be more interesting to see what populations under different media perceive
It's probably that quite a bit of this data comes not through the media, per se, but through looking at government data. How much do you spend here, here, and here, etc. etc.
Taint ABird well, call me biased, but India. I've heard that we're seen as a country filled with rapists and filth, with faeces laden streets all over. Honestly, while rape does occur, like in any other country, it's not as bad as portrayed. In fact, women, my sister included, do roam around alone late in the night without need for much worry for their safety. Rapes are a problem, yes, and shouldn't take place, but we don't have a "rape problem" any more than the next country. As for filth ridden, yes, we do have poor people who have no means to afford a place and hence build slums and defaecate out in the open, but it's unfortunately the hard life they were given. They don't want to be there doing that. If slums bother you, it's not like it's all over the place, they're there in some places.
@Keyser Söze Well, it goes back about 15-20 years. Official, Sweden is ofc not a communist country but Inofficial we har slowly getting there. It´s hard to explain to someone how´s not living here.
This title is so unfair. Simon's talk is just one of the most profound, brilliant, and intriguing talks I ever have seen not only on TED, not only on RUclips, mas in my life as a whole! Comments don't translate.
As a irish person it's a good list to be on. I find it interesting how little comments there are from irish people here except to say that they don't really believe it and everyone else is talking about themselves or hating other countries and that i think goes some way to explains why Ireland is top of list.
2019 Ranking: 1. Finland 2. Netherlands 3. Ireland 4.Sweden 5.Germany 6.Denmark 7.Switzerland 8.Norway 9.France 10.Spain Some other: USA 40 Russia 41 China 61 UK 15 Australia 20
Even though I’m Irish I’m not angry, were still in 3rd which is still great for us, and if other countries are better than us it doesn’t mean that were getting worse, it just means other countries are getting better. But I’m not only Irish, the other country I’m from… Aren’t doing good as of right now. Looking at you Pakistan.
Belgium gives the most culture to the world??? What does that even mean? Has anyone _ever_ watched a Belgian movie or listened to a Belgian song who isn't in Belguim???
The data they used was: Creative goods exports, Creative services exports, UNESCO dues in arrears as % of contribution, Freedom of movement and Press freedom.
The amount of good done is very dependant upon the capacity to do good. If person A has ¤3 and gives them all away to person B who has ¤0 person A is considered a saint who now needs charity from person C or person A will starve to death. This is the essence of wealth redistribution. Instead, if a person C has ¤5 trillion and they give ¤100 to the person B they have benefited person B 33x more than person A could have while person C notices no decline in comfort or survivability. Sainthood is touching but ultimately without wealth creation, all the saints would starve to death. The nation that has the best system for creating wealth should be at the top of the list. The nations with the best system for creating wealth should ignore the list altogether and embrace the sovereignty of their own nation. If you want to understand why I believe the things that I believe then read Atlas Shrugged twice.
I would guess that he means that what this speaker says isn't true. It's supposed to sound nice and supposed to help the world move forward to working together. However he generalizes really much and doesn't actually know how the world works. It's not about how everyone just cares about their own country or how everyone's a narcissist. Every country has its own agenda and some actually strive towards working together. However, this doesn't work. Some countries actually need to look inward and fix their own problems before they do anything else. There is a lot that needs to be fixed in the world. Not just global problems. It's hard doing the right thing and even harder to even know what the right thing is to do. This TED talk makes everything sound so easy. Just like the motivational asmr viedos that talk about self improvement. Just my take tho
no its not its acutally in line with the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_equation , altruist choices increase the fitness of a group, and bad policy decisions decrease therefore the fitness of a country. Ireland also suffers from the brexit, making it less altrustic
Brexit is only beginning to take effect.We do not know what the effect of brexit will be on ireland.Ireland will be the first toehold in europe rather than britain for multinational companies.Ireland is still in the eu remember
For half a year the US was the only country that would give the vaccine to foreign seafarers. As of August 2021, only 15% of the world's seafarers are vaccinated. The US does a lot of good but they also do a lot of damage so I can see that they would rank low on a list like this. There's a reason that Western European countries can be on this list, they tend to have nice neighbors. Many companies incorporate in Ireland to avoid paying taxes in other countries so I don't accept seeing them at the top of the list.
India.. too many population for the government to handle, that's why we don't do much for other countries.. Apart from helping in Education in pakistan, providing free softwares to open sources, helping Nepal and Bhutan duing natural calamities, helping sri lanka to get rid of their terrorists, share kashmir (one of the most beautiful place on world with Pakistan..but they don't know the difference between owning and sharing yet..) and last but not the least giving Independence to BANGLADESH also accepting refugess from their country during warefare... Mera Bharat Mahan.. Jai Hind!!!
We come from country which realized long back its better to be good than just advance... History speaks itself (vasu deva kutambakkam) the idea of globalization not ownership.
I am an Indian. And am one of the biggest critics of India ( though I am insignificant.. Lol). What amazes me about this country is that it stood up. So many languages, so many people each foreginers to other, but it stood up as an entity. With all the caste system and divison it managed to keep together. Inspite of poverty and huge corruption, and the constant inteferrence by outside agencies we managed to create better institutions. And the reason for all this is it never forgot its past. Never. 1000 years of foreign rule quartered India at many places, but whatever that remains of the original Indo-Iranian culture has withstood the test of time. The credit of creating a self cleaning culture invariably goes to the founding fathers of this culture. Who created an opem religion, which meant essentially all the people in Bharatvarsha were included. Hinduism was made as open religon, one where God's importance is less, but your preception of the world is more important. If it was not for the sung and unsung ancient Indians, we would be 10 to 15 countries, fighting like Europe of 1940s. And how fragile the balance was can be seem in present day Pakistan. It was carved put from the same people, form the same cultural backgorund, from the same society. And today 4 of the 5 or 6 major demographies pf Pakistan are revolting against it. I think only thing India contributed to the world was - how a globalised world can function and remain together inspite of extreme challenges both external and internal. Afterall CIA's activities here has beem well written about. Just look at arvind kejriwal. When Indian govt. Took a hard line stance at WTO and later at climate meet, Arvind Kejriwal was getting stonger day and night, he was a social media hero, 3 or 4 new names start appearing, the intolerance protests. When Indian signed a lot treaties with America and showed friendly overtures.... And Narendra Modi personal endeavour to have good relationship with Obama started matterialising, suddenly out of nowhere, tapes leak out, scandals in AAP starts coming out every day, AAP gets effectively eliminated as a 'positive political force'. It is now just a petty party. Its hard not to connect the dots. There is always an external hand here. And with so many in divisons, their work is far easier. But India manages to do it.
@@randomvidios09 "Just" 6.5% means 50% more taxes, but then your narrative seems to be a bit incomplete. Base erosion and profit shifting? Doesn't ring a bell? Double Irish? Nope? Capital Allowances for Intangible Assets (CAIA)? Illegal state aid for Apple? Effective tax rates as low as 0.005%? Leprechaun economics?
TomlinsTE no. Need and gain are keys for innovation. Otherwise markets wouldn't evolve to monopolies over time even though they compete with one on another.
If you would agree monopolies are bad then you must realize competition is good. My position is that competition sparks innovation, but now that you mention it, competition is also a very good way to avoid eventual monopoly, which is even a better argument to support my position that competition is good.
On some level competition probably benefits technological advancement more than say cooperation. However for global issues, competition is not going to help resolve global warming, or world poverty. No one is going to compete to eradicate poverty more, because there's no self interest in it from the competitive mind set. That is where cooperation is more useful, because it has a mind set prepared to deal with global challenges.
Ireland is one of the best countries in the world ,in the top 3 of the most developed countries on earth we give aid we take in people in need and give them hope and a home we give support and love,we give them something to believe in, humanity ❤️ we are all one and better when we stand together ❤️ 💙 ♥️
I noticed that the Nordic countries all rank very high. I wonder why. I can think of a few differences between them and most other countries: low levels of corruption, the type of welfare state in them and a secular culture. Just to be clear, I'm not saying that one or more of these things make countries selfless. I'm just thinking of possible explanations. In one way, the rankings encourage the kind of thinking they're supposed to oppose. When you compare countries, people are inevitably going to compare their own country to others. On the whole, the rankings do probably make people think of countries in more global terms.
If you look to all under-developed countries, you will see that they are all in warm to hot climates. Almost all countries which has hot climate spends lots and lots of their resources on cooling down the work places OR losing their work power due to hot climate's effect on human bodies. Nordic countries however doesnt have such problem.
Tolga Simsek If you look to all under-developed countries, you'll see that the main problem is not that they're right now underdeveloped, but that they're right now being prevented from developing themselves, because the interests of the developed nations will get hurt if the number of other developed nations increases and the number of nations they exploit decreases. Sure the people in the undeveloped world can't blame others from pursuing their interests and have to change themselves in order to apply change to their countries, but that doesn't deny the responsibility of the developed (particularly Western) world.
Yasser Dammak Don't underestimate the role corruption plays in developed countries' hesitancy to get involved with undeveloped countries. If you look at Sudan, after the big genocide took place and it was split between Sudan and South Sudan, it didn't take more than a year before a genocidal civil war broke out between the new pockets of refugees living in South Sudan. That's the kind of stupid that money can't fix.
Ireland is a street angel house devil, at the expense of the actual indigenous Irish, Norway have our gas and oil, the world have our 450 mile fishing box above the Irish, American has destroyed our real economy,the banks are laundering trillions paying no tax along with there corporations , they've even stolen people's social welfare to starve them into submission,no wonder they love Ireland, they just hate the real Irish!
May 2019 .....USA slipped while India and China climbed 1.Finland 2.Netherlands 9.France 10. Spain 15. UK 17. New Zealand 20. Australia 24. Japan 30. Portugal 40. USA 41.Russia 44.India 52. UAE ( Arab ) 61.China 72. Brazil 74.Mexico
Рустам Балафендиев apparently it’s not about how much money you give other countries around the world or how many people are invading your country because it gives you a chance to succeed. I say the U.S. needs to close its borders cut the financial aid it gives to countries around the world.
@@Giguv05 Не делай вид, что не знаешь, что Путин раздает налоги русских граждан бывшим республикам. Еще и Африке помогаем постоянно. Я вообще не понимаю, почему мы были на 99 месте. Россия вторая страна после США, дающая деньги странам третьего мира. Мало этого, мы не требуем возвращать долги.
Seeing Belgium and United Kingdom in this list, I could conclude that he is just ignoring the last 150 year of history, colonization and so on... Leopold II alone killed more than 10 million congolese people... United Kingdom just in India, forcing them to starv, got also pretty high numbers on killing people, to no metion their colonies in Africa.... And then you ask: Whats colonization has to do with nowdays? well, you should be asking how did these small countries accumulate so much wealth....
You have to take all of history into consideration then. I am not disagreeing with you but i recently had a similar discussion with a friend and if you look at history, many countries did horrific things. With great power comes great responsibility and i think counties tend to get power way before they become mature and knowledgable about how to use it. I can think of very few powerful empires and countries that did not commit horrific atrocities, and this is not limited to one continent.
@@Nightshaderling The problem begins when we take "countries" as single entities, when they are actually the result of the forces of the powerful dominant class that rules them. In this sense, you would not be able to treat the Russia of Nicholas II to the Stalinist Russia as the same entity, since diferent powers/groups were holding the control of the country. In the case of United Kingdom and Berlgium, the dominant class is pretty much the same, not the same people, people but many of the children and grandchildren of those holding power at the time, are still very influential (particularly the bankers) - Well, in the United Kingdom you still have a royal family that has being keeping the throne within blood lineage, although its not fair to say that they are actually holding power, but they are certainly big allies of those rulling . The short story is that there is no such a thing as a "nice country", and this measure of countries that make the most good to others sounds like some light weight propaganda... but if you really want to talk about country policies that are driven towards a strong sense of solidarity, you should probably put Cuba in this list, as the country, even being such a small and poor one, it is giving humanitarian aid all over the globe (particularly by sending doctors) way over their monetary capacity (there is a monetary equivalent for the formation of this doctors, which is not cheap, especially for a country like Cuba, but the help they provide all over the globe is priceless...). That`s being said, we can talk about history of empires. Its importante to notice though, that the more recent the empires we are talking about, the greater the damage the were able to do to their dominated, and they did.. no single empire in history of mankind harmmed more people than United States. Before them, england and European biggest colonizers get on top... Even if you go way back in times of Roman empire, you would find empires more merciful and with greater humanistic sense than these modern empires... Adrianus and Marcus Aurelius, for their ideas, for instance, seemed to be better people than Churchill...
Not the countries that are rich. The wealth is owned privately. Spain didn't become rich by looting South America - it went bust. The wealth is privatised. UK ain't rich. I live in an area of the North that is poorer than Eastern Germany was in the 80's. The system favours the already powerful and rich. It's now a battle between the corporations and democracy. That will end with the destruction of the our climate and humans.
every single country to exist committed atrocities, none are better then others, it looks at countries in todays world and how they treat other countries
Then you have to ask yourself. How did these tiny little countries manage to do that? Sorry but Africans and Indians vastly outnumber Europeans - but couldn't or wouldn't stop the colonialists coming. Could it possibly be that colonialism was also a collaboration???
@@NordProductions That is not true in fact that is racist. You can't just judge white people as 'better'. If you look further in the actual website you'll see that there are non-white countries
@@lelezhang8378 No he is saying white people created better countries for the planet. You are being racist towards white people for saying they don't when the evidence is there.. you called him racist for being proud of his country but you wouldn't bat an eyelid if it was another race, see you are an anti white piece of trash
Literally cannot believe how relevant this TED Talk is 6 damned years later... I thought it was a new video, especially when he was talking about a pandemic (previous one). It really would be nice for people & their countries around the world to pay a bit more attention to advisors like this... The world could be a FAR better place.
The US didn't make the top ten? Shocking.... ;) I loved this video, very interesting to see how perceptions shape the world view. I live in the US, but am ashamed that so many are selfish, but it is a lack of insight into true suffering. Things will always change. We will see.... hopefully for the better.
Brother Ziti Al Forno - Peace Be Upon Him If we consider how much 'turmoil' we have caused in the West, we can say that our good deeds are often obscured by corruption and coups
Brother Ziti Al Forno - Peace Be Upon Him maybe start by fixing problems in your own country instead of printing money to have a bigger army just to start wars around the world.. if you actually think the usa is a better country than any first world european country youre bugging
Thank you, RUclips, for selecting this for me in 2020. Couldn’t be more relevant in these days. Why don’t we see these people more often in public debate..
There seems to be a lot of jealous comments here.... I love going to Ireland, food is tastier, people are friendlier, countryside and cities are cleaner than anywhere else I've been. You lot should be worrying about your corporate, mass producing countries like USA, UK etc. There are two types of people in the world.... The Irish and those who wish they were Irish. haha!!!!
Sweden is bringing ruin to their own institutions by accepting bad behavior in the name of being well behaved. Whatever good they do will be erased in no time.
TinyRodent It is true, but I don't think people that are lazy and get money from the government that believe in a more fake person than Scientology, and is more shady than my closet is any better.
Has been tried 171 years ago by a guy named Karl Marx. Has failed everywhere it was tried, rivers of blood were shed by Hitler, Stalin, Mao under Marx utopia. It starts with 'minority' being bypassed, then persecuted, accused of being enemy of the people, then jailed and tortured, then send to Concentration camps in Germany, Gulags in USSR, then machine gunned over an open grave pits like Babi Yar in Ukraine, Chlodomor, again in Ukraine in 1922 when 20 million starved to death after Bolsheviks took the seed grain away. The only bigger mass murder has been conducted by Islam since AD 632.
Ireland, that recent story where they donated money to Native Americans during this coronavirus pandemic to thank Native Americans for their donation to Ireland during Irish potato famine.
@@hacyil190 That's a great story too, I did not know that. I was referring to a money donation that the Choctaw tribe made to Ireland during the famine which is commemorated by a statue in Ireland.
@Archock Encanto 😂😂
@@hacyil190 dude :) rather than complaining and trying to be nonchalant. Can't you just appreciate that generosity for Native American? I mean... It's not a competition...
By the way, i m aware that you wana give us more detailed about that history point. But you can do that kindly ;)
have nive day.
@Mat K The First Nations are blessed.
@@hacyil190 automans though.
7.7k Americans disliked upon discovering that the answer isn't the U.S.
I knew our country was probably know where close
Meanwhile most of the rest of the world would have the very same reaction if the stated answer WAS America.
@@fransmith3255 yeah cuz it would be bullshit lmao😂
It isn't even number one on world order😂
@@brent4674 No, it isn't. And for many very good reasons. It is, in fact, number 40 (at time of writing this), and ONLY because America exports a lot of pharmaceuticals. It figures that big pharma, appears to be the only reason why America isn't more like number 100 on the list right down there with African countries, doesn't it?
The moment I heard pandemic I headed to check what year this video was made.
Same here.
Same here
same here
same here=
He is referimg to the A flu from a few years ago
This man predicted 2020 in 2014. And then here we are being recommended this video.
Ayy saaameeeeeee
He's not predicting, he is talking about the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Pandemics happen more often than you think.
I can predict that 2030 will come in ten years.
@@more_tezza SARS and MERS too maybe even bird flu
That right m8
I'm Irish and I don't ever fart so as to not increase the world's methane levels #everylittlecounts
XD
Unfortunately Ireland is no longer no. 1
@@suncrafterspielt9479 number 3 I think. Which is good, that means that other countries are doing EVEN BETTER
@@liamsomeone6333 Nice concept .. Competition for being good .. rather than fakness, and other stuffs.
@@pauljohny200 this isn't competition, these are facts. I don't want this to be a competition, I want other countries to do even better than Ireland. Go cry to bunker boy.
Who's watching his opening line while the Corona Virus continues to escalate?
yes yes yes me!
It's not escalating, if the current reaction of the people would be appropiate, every country would have been in anarchy during swine flu.
@@Sonathan1893 You shouldn't have dropped out of school, 'cause I have no damn clue what you're muttering at me!
@@PiercedHeartProductions Not having a clue can be your or the other person's mistake.
youtube algorithms pick up trends and present to us.
Holy crap I can't believe how relevant this talk is 6 years later.
it will still be relevant for many decades, unfortunately... :(
@@guascamsb8138 it's relevant for our entire life and we're the actors :)
Good Luck ! (Thx Ireland)
I remember reading about Ireland's overall levels of altruism before but as I understand the metrics for measuring these and others forms of helping have been revised in recent years (in tandem with changes throughout the world as we know of it), so although Ireland may still be among the most charitable I don't think it is considered to be the most altruistic (granted the new metrics being used and their emphases are a matter of revised interpretation)
@@Aenthel Well I don't think even with new metrics that Ireland would suddenly be at the bottom of the charts. And I don't think the USA will suddenly be on top either. In fact, I think whatever metrics you're using, roughly the same results should be had.
@@QodeMusic well I admit some of my comments have not been stated directly, I am not disputing Ireland finding a place somewhere near the top of these rankings or even at the top as far as altruistic countries may be calculated, rather my comments were about why Ireland is not in the same place as before, which is something of a consequence of significant changes to the type of metrics now used
Lets be honest.Before clicking the video everybody knowed that us is not the country
Yes
@Casey Portnell Why should it be America? None of the other 300 countries came in first either.
@@stephenmurray2851 ya, but no other country has the population screaming 'we're number 1!' every chance they got.
Science and Technology - US contribution to the world - 50th
Ukraine - #1...
AHAHA, you Lefties crack me up.
@@imluvinyourmum I know. It's genuine delusion. There is just no reasoning with them.
Visiting Ireland in 2009 I looked around me and The thought that struck me was "This is the most civilized country in the world". Apparently I was right. 🍀 Love you back, Ireland
Hi from Ireland, just curious: What specific areas or behaviours led you to this conclusion? Bí cúramach, go raibh maith agat agus beannacht 👋
Have you seen Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg???
Drinking beer
@@EMMYK1916
Short answer: Not The USA
Hhh 😂😂
4:04 each one trying to shaft the next. The greatest shaft is unregulated capitalism. Guess who is pushing it.
lol you people crack me up.
@@NoticerOfficial yeah, you too budy
yet we the USA are still the country most refugees want to come to, we are the country everybody looks to when disasters happen to help, and that's fact, not his statistics setup to get results he wanted
I love it when the audio makes me feel like im literally inside the speakers mouth.
hahahahaha
After 2 seconds I was like... man... just move the mic off your damn stubble. Not that hard. And stop mulching up banana whilst talking. Killing me.
Makes me feel all warm and tingly inside
I think it's someone eating
Yeah its disgusting
As an Irish person, it was such a pleasant surprise to hear that. I can't stop smiling.
We still have a long way to go though
Hold on to potatoes tho
@@spooked2104 😂😂😂😂
Miles to go before we sleep - that is exactly the attitude we should have - to celebrate successes, and continue to strive to do better.
all the doctors I go to here are either graduated from or practised in Ireland. Thank you :)
@insomiablaze 1 Show evidence please
I'm in before WatchMojo turns this into another top 10 list.
500th likkke
Kenny Tee 666 likes damn
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Go tell that Crap to some body else.!!! Remember the Orphanage of BLACK Children, on 43 St, York City, IN 1863? During the Civil War??? >A Mob of Irish Immigrants ATTACKED It and Burnt It down to the Ground! YEAthe Irish are great people. The Empty Lot is still there today on the North West Corner. Check it out!!! What a Dumb Video
Not surprised that I haven't seen this man before, as he's obviously well-informed and must be stopped for being a good, intelligent person.
You mean no good deed is left unpunished?
He’s British. Obviously he is thinking about the wellness of the world. For legal reasons, that’s a joke
Would be so interesting to do the same with global companies !
tbh only NGOs/charities would figure in that list, and maybe some co-operative/family owned businesses. All corporate companies serve their investor's needs first, lenders 2nd and rest is meh
@@rivenwizz I think that was the point of the original comment
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There is such a list for pharmaceutical companies with some great results. It's called the Access to Medicine Index. For example, MSD has pledged to work on onchocerciasis by producing the curative drug for free (for 100M people a year) until it is no longer necessary. A PR campaign, sure, but it prevents millions of cases of blindness worldwide.
@@rivenwizz Lol no most charisties are really bad, the percentage that goes to what they stand for is usually very low.
Born in Ireland 85 years ago and living here since I am privileged proud and blessed..
Before we go to sleep our thought should not be I am glad Ireland exist it should be I am glad those 10 countries exist. Because together they do a huge deal. If you only thought I am glad Ireland exist well without the other 9 countries the world would be doomed. You need those other 9 countries because Ireland alone is not what we need.
If you imagine the world as a glass of water, and all of its molecules as people in the world, you can get a good picture of the problem we face with globalization. When you put a drop of colored fluid into the glass (an idea, a nation, etc) you see that the color swirls around and, with time, eventually dissolves into the entire glass. At first, the color is strong, vibrant, and rich (rich culture, rich history, etc) but then fades away, being absorbed into the system (globalization). At other times, molecules in this glass may act more like oil than water, resisting absorption in the system by clinging to older times and ways. So if you imagine this, what you see now is a glass full of colors and fluids, suspended in odd shaped bubbles and looking like liquid stained glass, splitting and joining, mixing and molding, to fit into the world. Over a long time however, the absorption is inevitable, and it will happen, hopefully very peacefully... but this is the true problem: Drop a firecracker in your glass. Liquid splashes everywhere (death), colors mix rapidly creating a blend of odd new colors and fluids, and every color is marred with a bit of soot making the entire glass darker. War changes the world quickly, and that is what the true powerful globalists want, WAR.
omg i had that same vision in 1 second when I was stoned yesterday! ....and they said weed makes you dumb, completely opposite!
Berny Mcbilly Thanks for bringing me back to this thread. I had forgot about my conversation here. Unfortunately, the debate didn't end well but I liked my points. DIVAD if you're ever ready we can finish this.
Wrong! A type one civilization must be fully globalized and thus collectively create methods to protect itself against the analogy you used here instead of stay isolated from each other to protect themselves.
MyDefendor Q Who're you replying to?
MyDefendor Q Sure....just simply roll over and let the self-proclaimed, "Élite" , continue to use and abuse you. Speak for yourself. "World Government"?? You poor pathetic slave...
Went to the site. Ireland dropped from 1st to 8th. Interesting to see that in a few years a country can improve or slip up and down the line by the choices its leaders make
That is a good question...time to research for fun!
The site has a version 1.0 and version 1.1 and rankings changed. There is probably A LOT of data used and collected each year
Ireland in 11th now
and kenya isnt in top 30 its #91 so I guess it is about moeny :D
its about perspective really, like do you support a single global world order to be in charge of everything? Basically a bigger EU. More red tape.
The point of the 'talk' was not to belittle or glorify a country by giving stats that you may or may not agree with. Rather the point is just to prove how the world can become a good global village, if each country enforces goodness 'externally'.
Outstanding summary! Thank you!
"enforces goodness" sounds pretty sketchy to me.
@@sebastiandiaconu1221
Agreed, enforcing goodness sounds like badness to me...
Sebastian Diaconu it should be strongly encouraged
@@befunkrn Jacinda Ardern. Career politician with no experience regarding global issues and parenting matters 😷
The microphone rubbing on his beard give this whole presentation the unique vinyl touch. Love it :D
As a German who has been many times to Ireland working and travelling, I can say: I love Ireland a lot! You deserve it!
The mic/beard thing was driving me crazy the entire time. However the message was important enough to look past minor irritations.
As an Irishman, going Germany next month for business. Love the German people
Shouldn't this index be renamed as the, 'Least Selfish Country Index'
People usually respond more to loss than to wins, so I think if you completely flip the index and call it the most selfish countries index, then it might have a bigger impact haha
Not really. It's not a list of top altruists, but top contributers.
Midi Music Forever No it isn’t top contributors, it’s top altruists. For example, the US would be in the top if it were top gross contributors because they give more overall, but less per capita. Ireland (at the time) gave the most pet capita, but not the most gross
@@jackytaly
Contribution per capita, of course. But that wasn't the point. The point is that the list is about contribution, not about altruism. Selfish acts that have positive secondary effects count.
Midi Music Forever Well by that standard, altruism doesn’t exist. All acts are selfish acts
If China and/or India are spending more energy supporting their own citizen then world citizen they're still helping 10-15% of the world population each...
Yes if it helped ALL of the people in that country, then yes. The problem is that a lot of policies in China or India do not help or contribute positive to everyone or that vast majority of the population. And that is in my opinion the biggest reason for the low score.
+johiidk, no, this index only looks at what the country contributes to the outside world, not how it treats its own citizens (there are a lot of other indexes that already do that).
So it's not to be interpreted as how much is a given country's contribution to the world (including its self) but the world minus it self? Or am I completely misunderstanding the scoring system.
Exactly. There are other indexes that shows what the citizens of a nation think of their own country based off of similar metrics. So if you look at these indexes and see countries that score high on both, i.e. the people living there like living there, generally speaking, and they contribute a lot to the rest of world according to this index - that should make one think - how come they can contribute so much to the rest of the world but still have great lives at home? Are there more countries on these indexes that score high and do similar things with regards to politics etc? And if there are, why isn't my country doing that?
well you can consider that as 10-15% of the population helping themselves, per capita, china and india aren't helping as much as other countries, no matter how big they are.
The audio is terrible! Who's eating taffy near an open mic?
+Walter White The mic is rubbing on his beard a bit.
AHAHAHAHHAHHHAHAAHHAHAA
+Walter White Cough drop probably.
+Walter White It's so fucking annoying lmao I really want to listen to this but the noise is so annoying lol
+Walter White 😂😂😂😂
"God dammit I'm glad Ireland exists "
Táim freisin
Its Tá mé comh mhaith
@@David-wn8xo different dialects im from cork
Mise freisin
I am glad all those nations on that list exists.
As a person living in the US I can say I'm happy we are no where near the top of that list. We are selfish, violent, narcissistic people who parrot what we hear. I know a lot of Americans are commenting about how unfair or untrue his data is, but really, take a step back & look at our country! Look at what it's done to other nations & people around the world. If you can call that 'good' then you are oblivious.
I wish the south seceded from the union, then the U.S. would be a good fucking country
21st for the only considered superpower in the world is way higher than one would expect. Your comment is just stupid. Take a look at the eastern comparable ones like Russia or China. There's no logic in what you're saying.
***** Dangerous? Ashamed? By 'they kick puppies' do you mean funding foreign civil wars, not taking responsibility for the civilian lives lost in drone strikes, unending imperialism, or....?
I don't express my opinion for likes on RUclips. Please leave the insults to children.
***** So I should have written about happy opinion that isn't so awful (or true), and one you would agree with? Note taken.
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lamo after his opening line i had to check the date
or gez same
Me too lol
same i was like...is this really 2014
@Seaghán Ó Laochdha so true, bill gates did a talk on it in 2015 and quite accurately predicted COVID-19
@Seaghán Ó Laochdha the ebola was still present then
I thought it is China for giving 3 months pseudo holidays to the world.
Too soon 😅
yep too soon 😂😂
Countries are useless, that’s why
Countries with a weak social safety net are feeling pain now. No job means no money, no money means no food. Many boss's, businesses and customers are paying people now, needed or not, because we know they have no other means. It is a holiday with no where to go and nothing to do.
Pseudo Holidays. Godmn man you just give me a band name.
I am so happy to see my country *India* at 44 Rank.
We came at 44 from more than 120 rank, some years ago.
We are just 3 positions below the US.
I hope my country keeps improving and the rest of countries too.
Coz it's only meaningful when all countries improve.
I don’t know you political allegiance but that video is from 2014. Yes we’ll grow as a country. But BJP is in power so I think the rank if not forged will deteriorate
Lol your country India sucks
@@tonytasung2747 we didn't ask for ya word lol
@@dt8129 I wasn't telling you either
@@tonytasung2747 that's straight up disrespectful. Go learn some social skills. Have a nice day
update: Finland is in 1st place at the moment
I don't think the graph is very good.
How can the UK be 7th and then 2 years later vote for Brexit.
How is Denmark 9th for culture when their immigration is really stick and they try to preserve their Nordic race.
Who's deciding what is good? seems pretty loose to me.
ReeceAUS maybe you should check the measurements...
Oi soumi on
So, We're the happiest country AND do the most good for the world... Didn't see that one coming
EllaH im proud af ❤️❤️
Im proud of Russia going from 95th to 41th. They are trying :)
I like your positivity!
@@yourmastergggg4402 Imagine creating multiple terrorist cells and organizations, toppling multiple sovereign governments, invading and bombing multiple countries and occupying them all against UN policy and international law. Imagine having more military bases outside your boarder than half the world countries have in their borders, then imagine having a military budget bigger than the budget for health, education, etc. combined. Guess which country i am, and am ranked far better than Russia. And please can we all imagine having such a turd for media corporations which only spew false propaganda which you soak in like a good little sheep you are.
@Naurius no it's Zimbabwe silly.
@@sufoarcane when you pay so much money for the military you also have to use it before the bombs go over the expiration date....
Right behind the US (40th place)
every irish person i met so far is humble and kind.
they make me feel like im home
have you heard of conor mcgregor. lol
He keeps people on the right path. IF you don't Conor will bate your head.
BiEN HURry I hope you enjoyed your time in Ireland
IRA>
I am Irish and I am quite blown away by this i know back in the 1980s when we had mass imagination and high unemployment we donated more to the 3rd world per capita than the rest of the world. Us Irish have had a very oppressive history full of hunger loss and strife we have been cast to the four corners of the world. Our country is still partly occupied by a foreign power yet we don't hate them but we are full of empathy for oppressed people in other lands.
Lies.
It is not 'occupied'. You have no right to take land unless the people living there agree to it. You still claim all the people there as Irish despite this.
@joebloggs396 It will be a nation once again. Joe, you and I will live to see it.
Literally didn't want this talk to end, it's so refreshing to hear him speak, let alone hearing what he has to say about the whole thing.
I felt exactly the same
The idea behind this TED talk really could help change the world. I can't recommend this enough.
I love the simplicity of what he says..I agree with u doodelay , I think it could help change the world. Good post! : )
India is at 61, China at 64 and Russia at the 78th place as of 2016.
Brazil at 47 and South Africa at 51
Adhiraj Gupte Should be the other way around.
where's Pakistan ??
gopal gopi Its a country in South Asia right between Afghanistan and India.
AF A lmfao 😂
As an Irish man born and bred...I honestly had no clue we were as big of an influence within these 6 years 2 other countries have overtaken us in these charts with finland being no.1 and Ireland no.3 now..still very proud of this really...it's time the small forgettable countries start making some noise. Sláinte Mhaith 🇮🇪🇮🇪❤️❤️
Bred?
Sir, Irish is a Cultural phenomenon, not a biological „race“.
@@iche9373it's a saying in ireland used instead of born and raised
@@iche9373lmfao how silly of you
@@sonny9493 Silly? Sir, the damned right-wingers in my country are talking about „national blood“ to sell their racism. And that’s not funny Captain Ableist.
@@ac0615 Well, only extreme right-wingers are talking about „National blood“ to legitimate their racism.
I love how he doesn't chastise the lowest scoring countries but instead fits it into a narrative of development. That's how you convince them to come on board.
the jester has spoken ... admirably
edthejester, fantastic observation
The index is too subjective on its composition and weight. Data of each country is also collected on different levels according to the website of index. So it’s positive but the rank means little.
This is just a tool to leverage control over the global political class. Typical globalist elitism. Not buying it.
While at the same time saying it's not about money. This talk I'd a joke.
Even though, as many people keep pointing out here in the comments, the data is likely to be flawed in more ways than one and the list/rankings might be flawed as a result, that really is not the point. It's about trying to be good globally rather than "own country first" and people here fighting about which country is good or bad or why these rankings "suck" is showing that people still don't get it. It's not about you and your country, think globally goddamnit, that's the message. Judge your country by what it's doing for humanity, don't judge other countries because you think your country is surely doing it much better and should be higher up the list, that's exactly the attitude Simon tries to change.
thank you!
I realised how deeply thaugh we are to be competitive when my first thought when I saw my country was 6th place was "yess we're above they and them" after listening to a whole speech about not being competitive I still wanted to "beat" other countries, this is my favourite ted talk so far.
we're all just humans of the earth :)
yeah i know i came fuming to see where my country was placed.So sad
***** thats true :) But im still glad I found this video, it gave me a new perspective
It's not about being competitive or not, but what you're competitive about. I feel blessed to live in a country that scores high on this list (hope it still does!).
... thinking about this: shouldn't other aspects of sustainability be added to this index, especially environment?
linasuperdina Got a bit depressed when I saw Sweden over Norway...
I’m just gonna guess, 6 years later, it’s not any of the big countries
There aren't really any 'big' countries right now in the top 10...
Check out the website www.goodcountry.org/index/results/
@@TristanPopken what do you count as a big country then? Because France and Germany are both in the top 10
@@anvi3969 1. Germany is not scandinavian
2. As of 2018 Germany is in the top 6
3. As of 2018 Norway is 8th
@@Elephantrunk I mentioned EXCEPT GERMANY. saying all the countries in the top 6 are scandinavian except Germany
It saddens me how moronic the comments are on TED videos. So many keyboard scientists claiming this data is wrong without even looking at it.
everything starts with the definition of "the most good for the world". e.g i recognize one of the most good action to put down US as a world wide dictator and liberate the countries from its vassal position e.g. EU. it would be nice to stop US to suck economically whole the world. from this point of view i see US ranked last while it is for me the most parasitic country in the world
scientists are paid by government organisations or private sector. both have significant influence on this stupid propaganda presentation ... china, russia, india in the end ... real propaganda with no value
ThisAlbino Japan is obviously significantly higher than #52 in science and tech developement. I don't see how you can possibly disagree here
I think he is trying to rank countries that share technology, but like I was saying, this guy seems a little creepy and shady. The US don't need to share their tech because everyone hacks it. Is that accounted for in his pretty little chart?
+Shi Nobi you actually think he's ranking countries who share tech? And you think the US don't share tech because people keep hacking it? Stop thinking that America is the world, and that it's "hacking problem" is worse than others. I am Irish, and was slightly lifted in spirit when Ireland was ranked #1, but we also have our own problems. Maybe the reason America has such a "hacking problem" is because you are such a big country and because your pathetic excuse of a president is "the most protected man on earth" it must be an extremely important nation and have extremely useful information.
Shi Nobi not sharing encourages hacking.
Hillary wouldn't raise the number on that and I definitely know Trump would mess it up even more
Aero I think starting a war with Russia will NEVER "mess it up"
+Salad Man ha,as much as you'd like that.
Putin would like to avoid war against USA at all costs.
reason is Russia can't keep up with USA on military power and their planes and nukes are rusting away...
Aero Not really, Hillary already has, and will continue to mess things up. Destabilizing Libya, funding terrorist groups, funding Saudi Arabia, the Iran deal, deteriorating relations with just about everyone, further embedding the US in NATO, etc, etc, would Donald Trump have done any of those things? probably not
Hillary = WW3
Trump = WW3
+chasem007ify actually Saudi Arabia is paying for protection, and I think you meant Israel instead lol and we are getting bombed by terrorists as we speak no?
dude,trump idea of spending more on military is one of the things Romney got rejected. trump wants to be allies with countries that would love to distroy us ,and get farther away from our countries we can trust?!? no way is any of his ideas gonna work lmao,he d be impeached before he even does anything reckless,unless you want another Venezuela...
Good on ya Ireland!
+Scott Matheson Being generous is part of irish identity,not saying we are great we are not,but generosity and hospitality has always something that is important in irish culture
ThePizzageek A kind of a backhanded compliment their.Its the famine it left a huge mark on our psyche ande the fact that we are a small nation we all know one another and there is still a sense of comunity and family structures are fairly strong still
@@stoney7145 well saud but its being destryed rapidly by a ridiculous goverment brown nosing Europe our culture is being destroyed from external and internal forces
1:59 he said it he said the word
United Kingdom is first in Science and Technology? They still havent invented a single tap for both cold and warm water...
Got one in my kitchen
+algis mitkus Penicillin
+algis mitkus Thuse mixer taps are all through newer buildings in Australia and are a bloody pain.
+algis mitkus Post-war England was built in a time when you needed to store your hot water. Tepid, stagnant water attracts bacteria and parasites and leeches minerals from whatever it's stored in, so you'd want to keep your cold, drinkable water separate from your hot, yucky water. This is why only houses build in the last couple of decades have mixer taps.
It isn't that they didn't think of it, it was just a terrible idea.
+algis mitkus I mean, the point is kind of that this is about helping OTHER countries which is probably why you still don't have that single tap :P?
I found the lack of context through the lens of the world's media a bit disappointing. Surely that has a huge effect on perception. It would be more interesting to see what populations under different media perceive
yh it is very annoying isn't it, so many ppl r ignorant becos they don't look past the media
It's probably that quite a bit of this data comes not through the media, per se, but through looking at government data. How much do you spend here, here, and here, etc. etc.
because it's TED talk and it meant to be short (less than 18 minutes) he can go on and on about everything but it will be he presenting a documentary.
I'm trying to think of a country that is getting a bad rap in the media about something and does not deserve it...
Taint ABird well, call me biased, but India. I've heard that we're seen as a country filled with rapists and filth, with faeces laden streets all over. Honestly, while rape does occur, like in any other country, it's not as bad as portrayed. In fact, women, my sister included, do roam around alone late in the night without need for much worry for their safety. Rapes are a problem, yes, and shouldn't take place, but we don't have a "rape problem" any more than the next country. As for filth ridden, yes, we do have poor people who have no means to afford a place and hence build slums and defaecate out in the open, but it's unfortunately the hard life they were given. They don't want to be there doing that. If slums bother you, it's not like it's all over the place, they're there in some places.
I made a decision 10 years ago to leave the states and move to Finland. It's a damn good place
We have our problems like every country has but i do recommend to move here, its a great place to live
I live in Sweden and I hate it, I wish I lived in the U.S or Australia. I´m so fed up with the communism and political correctness.
@@rexxo4246 i hope youre joking. The biggest pc culture is in us. Everyone knows that
@Keyser Söze Well, it goes back about 15-20 years. Official, Sweden is ofc not a communist country but Inofficial we har slowly getting there. It´s hard to explain to someone how´s not living here.
@@rexxo4246 we are not communist.
This title is so unfair. Simon's talk is just one of the most profound, brilliant, and intriguing talks I ever have seen not only on TED, not only on RUclips, mas in my life as a whole! Comments don't translate.
I have been in Ireland and I met so many sweet kind people. I like it so much
Mina Hijazin i've been outside of Ireland all my life and haven't yet felt good about it. lol.
As a irish person it's a good list to be on. I find it interesting how little comments there are from irish people here except to say that they don't really believe it and everyone else is talking about themselves or hating other countries and that i think goes some way to explains why Ireland is top of list.
I see some bigoted comments from Irish people as usual.
2019 Ranking:
1. Finland
2. Netherlands
3. Ireland
4.Sweden
5.Germany
6.Denmark
7.Switzerland
8.Norway
9.France
10.Spain
Some other:
USA 40
Russia 41
China 61
UK 15
Australia 20
Clearly europe
no kidding us is so low now with trump as president
stefan broers Trump has brought the economy up since Obama, who was an absolutely atrocious president, and he continues to do great for the country.
@@toddbell8846 yeah THE COUNTRY
@@toddbell8846 3:06
2020 index Ireland slips to 3rd. Top 10 all European and Canada is highest placed ROW at 11th. Finland goes top! Go Finland!
Nice to hear other countries are topping us in Ireland hopefully it becomes some sort of race to be the "good est" country
Irelands still in top 10 and other countries are getting better, win win :D
Even though I’m Irish I’m not angry, were still in 3rd which is still great for us, and if other countries are better than us it doesn’t mean that were getting worse, it just means other countries are getting better. But I’m not only Irish, the other country I’m from… Aren’t doing good as of right now. Looking at you Pakistan.
@@InvincibleSucks Pakistan is probably at the bottom
Belgium gives the most culture to the world??? What does that even mean? Has anyone _ever_ watched a Belgian movie or listened to a Belgian song who isn't in Belguim???
Bear McBear MC I watched one movie. it was good. but still I doubt it is SO GOOD that it makes Belgium number one
Yep.
The data they used was: Creative goods exports, Creative services exports, UNESCO dues in arrears as % of contribution, Freedom of movement and Press freedom.
i watched one movie but it was in Belgium so i stopped
waffles /thread
"Kenya is in the top 30. So this is not about money."
OK, not about money, fine, but what IS it about ?
The amount of good done is very dependant upon the capacity to do good. If person A has ¤3 and gives them all away to person B who has ¤0 person A is considered a saint who now needs charity from person C or person A will starve to death. This is the essence of wealth redistribution. Instead, if a person C has ¤5 trillion and they give ¤100 to the person B they have benefited person B 33x more than person A could have while person C notices no decline in comfort or survivability.
Sainthood is touching but ultimately without wealth creation, all the saints would starve to death. The nation that has the best system for creating wealth should be at the top of the list. The nations with the best system for creating wealth should ignore the list altogether and embrace the sovereignty of their own nation.
If you want to understand why I believe the things that I believe then read Atlas Shrugged twice.
Yeah, 30 down to 92nd place tells me they no longer have any ability to help their neighbors after they were generous with their money.
i feel that it was quite cherry picking to find 1 country in 30 when there are many that are the opposite
@potatolord 73 No, it wasn't cherry-picking -- it was merely proof that wealth is not the determining factor.
This is actually a mouth-sound ASMR video pretending to be a TED talk.
Rupurrt Purrcy fucking annoying
Bruh
I cannot listen anymore.
Rupurrt Purrcy
, can you elaborate please?
Do you refer to the fact the he speaks in a manner that he seems to chew the words?
I would guess that he means that what this speaker says isn't true. It's supposed to sound nice and supposed to help the world move forward to working together. However he generalizes really much and doesn't actually know how the world works. It's not about how everyone just cares about their own country or how everyone's a narcissist.
Every country has its own agenda and some actually strive towards working together. However, this doesn't work. Some countries actually need to look inward and fix their own problems before they do anything else. There is a lot that needs to be fixed in the world. Not just global problems.
It's hard doing the right thing and even harder to even know what the right thing is to do.
This TED talk makes everything sound so easy. Just like the motivational asmr viedos that talk about self improvement. Just my take tho
Dude doing ASMR at the same time as a TED talk.
lmao
Hahaha it triggered me so hard.
I just checked out the website and had to find out Ireland dropped to number 11. What happened to you, Ireland, what happened?!
what happened is that this whole talk was nonsense.
someone said up the ra
no its not its acutally in line with the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_equation , altruist choices increase the fitness of a group, and bad policy decisions decrease therefore the fitness of a country. Ireland also suffers from the brexit, making it less altrustic
Brexit is only beginning to take effect.We do not know what the effect of brexit will be on ireland.Ireland will be the first toehold in europe rather than britain for multinational companies.Ireland is still in the eu remember
We have major tax problems with Microsoft and HP and also brexit is kinda fucking 80% of our trade
Clicked at 14:40 , saw Ireland is first, done.
Valken Cheers m8
No, Ireland fell 11th. In order it is Sweden, Danemark, Nederland, UK, Switzerland.
goodcountry.org/index/overall-rankings
🌺 7:11
*BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD. - Mahatma Gandhi* 🌺
Wise words from Ghandi.
@@stanleyhood4343 *Gandhi**
Gandhi did not say that.
Ghandi ??.
The time has come for the USA to be the change it wanted to see in the world !
In the 6 years since this talk was given the US dropped from place 21 to place 40 and thus sits one place higher than Russia at spot 41.
India at 44 from more than 110
For half a year the US was the only country that would give the vaccine to foreign seafarers. As of August 2021, only 15% of the world's seafarers are vaccinated.
The US does a lot of good but they also do a lot of damage so I can see that they would rank low on a list like this.
There's a reason that Western European countries can be on this list, they tend to have nice neighbors.
Many companies incorporate in Ireland to avoid paying taxes in other countries so I don't accept seeing them at the top of the list.
the Irish a great bunch of lads
Who else here from Ireland
Anseo
Éireannach is ea mé.
Potato
Me
Erin go bragh
This guy sounds like someone who does audio books.
"TED" always brings the simplest yet the best ideas from people around the world....
his posture makes my neck hurt
That's our movement posture.This guy hasn't stopped.
He has no neck.
Durkle Georgeson : I hear you when I walk by someone with poor posture I feel pain and want to pull their shoulders back and fix their necks.
@@jameszeallor2735 turtle neck comes to mind.
Durkle Georgeson he will get a neck problem, need acupuncture treatment.
India.. too many population for the government to handle, that's why we don't do much for other countries..
Apart from helping in Education in pakistan, providing free softwares to open sources, helping Nepal and Bhutan duing natural calamities, helping sri lanka to get rid of their terrorists, share kashmir (one of the most beautiful place on world with Pakistan..but they don't know the difference between owning and sharing yet..) and last but not the least giving Independence to BANGLADESH also accepting refugess from their country during warefare... Mera Bharat Mahan..
Jai Hind!!!
We come from country which realized long back its better to be good than just advance... History speaks itself (vasu deva kutambakkam) the idea of globalization not ownership.
There is a reason we are below in the index. rather being overly proud we should work on it.
India is so amazing, I am just fascinated by everything about it.
I am an Indian. And am one of the biggest critics of India ( though I am insignificant.. Lol).
What amazes me about this country is that it stood up. So many languages, so many people each foreginers to other, but it stood up as an entity. With all the caste system and divison it managed to keep together. Inspite of poverty and huge corruption, and the constant inteferrence by outside agencies we managed to create better institutions.
And the reason for all this is it never forgot its past. Never. 1000 years of foreign rule quartered India at many places, but whatever that remains of the original Indo-Iranian culture has withstood the test of time. The credit of creating a self cleaning culture invariably goes to the founding fathers of this culture. Who created an opem religion, which meant essentially all the people in Bharatvarsha were included. Hinduism was made as open religon, one where God's importance is less, but your preception of the world is more important.
If it was not for the sung and unsung ancient Indians, we would be 10 to 15 countries, fighting like Europe of 1940s.
And how fragile the balance was can be seem in present day Pakistan. It was carved put from the same people, form the same cultural backgorund, from the same society. And today 4 of the 5 or 6 major demographies pf Pakistan are revolting against it.
I think only thing India contributed to the world was - how a globalised world can function and remain together inspite of extreme challenges both external and internal. Afterall CIA's activities here has beem well written about. Just look at arvind kejriwal. When Indian govt. Took a hard line stance at WTO and later at climate meet, Arvind Kejriwal was getting stonger day and night, he was a social media hero, 3 or 4 new names start appearing, the intolerance protests. When Indian signed a lot treaties with America and showed friendly overtures.... And Narendra Modi personal endeavour to have good relationship with Obama started matterialising, suddenly out of nowhere, tapes leak out, scandals in AAP starts coming out every day, AAP gets effectively eliminated as a 'positive political force'. It is now just a petty party. Its hard not to connect the dots. There is always an external hand here. And with so many in divisons, their work is far easier. But India manages to do it.
who read this comment in Indian accent?
Ireland is number 1 :)
new update, sweden number 1
***** what do you say ?
A very Irish potato must be Irish eyes and music and dancing and the beer. The land of Celtic ?
No, Ireland fell 11th. In order it is Sweden, Danemark, Nederland, UK, Switzerland.
goodcountry.org/index/overall-rankings
Sweden is 1 now
Me, irish, singing the national anthem an crying
Crying? Because secretly you know that you are an evil tax haven?
Thank you Ireland. We need you but we don't deserve you.
@@randomvidios09 Tax havens are parasitic on the revenues of other countries. In other contexts this is considered theft.
@@randomvidios09 "Just" 6.5% means 50% more taxes, but then your narrative seems to be a bit incomplete. Base erosion and profit shifting? Doesn't ring a bell? Double Irish? Nope? Capital Allowances for Intangible Assets (CAIA)? Illegal state aid for Apple? Effective tax rates as low as 0.005%? Leprechaun economics?
Competition is not bad, it's key to innovation and some cultures are simply not compatible with others.
TomlinsTE no. Need and gain are keys for innovation. Otherwise markets wouldn't evolve to monopolies over time even though they compete with one on another.
If you would agree monopolies are bad then you must realize competition is good. My position is that competition sparks innovation, but now that you mention it, competition is also a very good way to avoid eventual monopoly, which is even a better argument to support my position that competition is good.
+David Reljanovic watch the movie zeitgeist
On some level competition probably benefits technological advancement more than say cooperation. However for global issues, competition is not going to help resolve global warming, or world poverty. No one is going to compete to eradicate poverty more, because there's no self interest in it from the competitive mind set. That is where cooperation is more useful, because it has a mind set prepared to deal with global challenges.
the problem is the world map... all the borders
mcrettable if there were no borders you would see 90% of people on 10% of the land
Good point...
but there are 90% of people on 10% of the land... it's called a CITY
I'm from Sweden. Just sayin...
Per Normann cool
Per Normann sweden is first on the list, denmark second
Same here, it feels good.
oh so that's what you meant by "that guy" ...
Too bad Sweden wont be swedish for long. It's projected by the UN to become a third world country by 2060.
Ireland is one of the best countries in the world ,in the top 3 of the most developed countries on earth we give aid we take in people in need and give them hope and a home we give support and love,we give them something to believe in, humanity ❤️ we are all one and better when we stand together ❤️ 💙 ♥️
Well said 👏
I noticed that the Nordic countries all rank very high. I wonder why. I can think of a few differences between them and most other countries: low levels of corruption, the type of welfare state in them and a secular culture. Just to be clear, I'm not saying that one or more of these things make countries selfless. I'm just thinking of possible explanations.
In one way, the rankings encourage the kind of thinking they're supposed to oppose. When you compare countries, people are inevitably going to compare their own country to others. On the whole, the rankings do probably make people think of countries in more global terms.
You can look at the website and see his source data. It is all quite silly if you dig into it.
To be honest all nordic countries is fairly small, maybe thats the reason they make it so well. Its probably easier to govern smaller countries.
If you look to all under-developed countries, you will see that they are all in warm to hot climates. Almost all countries which has hot climate spends lots and lots of their resources on cooling down the work places OR losing their work power due to hot climate's effect on human bodies. Nordic countries however doesnt have such problem.
Tolga Simsek If you look to all under-developed countries, you'll see that the main problem is not that they're right now underdeveloped, but that they're right now being prevented from developing themselves, because the interests of the developed nations will get hurt if the number of other developed nations increases and the number of nations they exploit decreases.
Sure the people in the undeveloped world can't blame others from pursuing their interests and have to change themselves in order to apply change to their countries, but that doesn't deny the responsibility of the developed (particularly Western) world.
Yasser Dammak Don't underestimate the role corruption plays in developed countries' hesitancy to get involved with undeveloped countries. If you look at Sudan, after the big genocide took place and it was split between Sudan and South Sudan, it didn't take more than a year before a genocidal civil war broke out between the new pockets of refugees living in South Sudan. That's the kind of stupid that money can't fix.
14:17 Well to be honest, Russia has recently been more outward looking :D
+Fathe Egeh touchè
+Fathe Egeh a good way to prevent Russia from expanding into your territory is try not to kill Russians on your territory.
+Fathe Egeh - That is absolutely not the case. You've obviously swallowed the Russophobic mendacious propaganda hook, line and sinker.
A wolf always looks outward when its hungry.
Varon Cook
Which is why the USA never looks inward.
I see why the youtube algorithm suggested this in today's world
The Irish are good people, a country with a very troubled history. Well deserved, even today they are top 4. Thank you Ireland.
Ireland is a street angel house devil, at the expense of the actual indigenous Irish, Norway have our gas and oil, the world have our 450 mile fishing box above the Irish, American has destroyed our real economy,the banks are laundering trillions paying no tax along with there corporations , they've even stolen people's social welfare to starve them into submission,no wonder they love Ireland, they just hate the real Irish!
May 2019 .....USA slipped while India and China climbed
1.Finland
2.Netherlands
9.France
10. Spain
15. UK
17. New Zealand
20. Australia
24. Japan
30. Portugal
40. USA
41.Russia
44.India
52. UAE ( Arab )
61.China
72. Brazil
74.Mexico
china：All you are here is garbage.
Somehow I find USA being right next to Russia really surprising
Рустам Балафендиев apparently it’s not about how much money you give other countries around the world or how many people are invading your country because it gives you a chance to succeed. I say the U.S. needs to close its borders cut the financial aid it gives to countries around the world.
@@Giguv05 Не делай вид, что не знаешь, что Путин раздает налоги русских граждан бывшим республикам. Еще и Африке помогаем постоянно.
Я вообще не понимаю, почему мы были на 99 месте. Россия вторая страна после США, дающая деньги странам третьего мира. Мало этого, мы не требуем возвращать долги.
@@Giguv05 I dont, considering the source and the fact that this is a Ted. Ted despises the U.S. and the West in general.
Seeing Belgium and United Kingdom in this list, I could conclude that he is just ignoring the last 150 year of history, colonization and so on... Leopold II alone killed more than 10 million congolese people... United Kingdom just in India, forcing them to starv, got also pretty high numbers on killing people, to no metion their colonies in Africa.... And then you ask: Whats colonization has to do with nowdays? well, you should be asking how did these small countries accumulate so much wealth....
You have to take all of history into consideration then. I am not disagreeing with you but i recently had a similar discussion with a friend and if you look at history, many countries did horrific things. With great power comes great responsibility and i think counties tend to get power way before they become mature and knowledgable about how to use it.
I can think of very few powerful empires and countries that did not commit horrific atrocities, and this is not limited to one continent.
@@Nightshaderling The problem begins when we take "countries" as single entities, when they are actually the result of the forces of the powerful dominant class that rules them. In this sense, you would not be able to treat the Russia of Nicholas II to the Stalinist Russia as the same entity, since diferent powers/groups were holding the control of the country. In the case of United Kingdom and Berlgium, the dominant class is pretty much the same, not the same people, people but many of the children and grandchildren of those holding power at the time, are still very influential (particularly the bankers) - Well, in the United Kingdom you still have a royal family that has being keeping the throne within blood lineage, although its not fair to say that they are actually holding power, but they are certainly big allies of those rulling . The short story is that there is no such a thing as a "nice country", and this measure of countries that make the most good to others sounds like some light weight propaganda... but if you really want to talk about country policies that are driven towards a strong sense of solidarity, you should probably put Cuba in this list, as the country, even being such a small and poor one, it is giving humanitarian aid all over the globe (particularly by sending doctors) way over their monetary capacity (there is a monetary equivalent for the formation of this doctors, which is not cheap, especially for a country like Cuba, but the help they provide all over the globe is priceless...).
That`s being said, we can talk about history of empires. Its importante to notice though, that the more recent the empires we are talking about, the greater the damage the were able to do to their dominated, and they did.. no single empire in history of mankind harmmed more people than United States. Before them, england and European biggest colonizers get on top... Even if you go way back in times of Roman empire, you would find empires more merciful and with greater humanistic sense than these modern empires... Adrianus and Marcus Aurelius, for their ideas, for instance, seemed to be better people than Churchill...
Not the countries that are rich. The wealth is owned privately. Spain didn't become rich by looting South America - it went bust. The wealth is privatised. UK ain't rich. I live in an area of the North that is poorer than Eastern Germany was in the 80's. The system favours the already powerful and rich. It's now a battle between the corporations and democracy. That will end with the destruction of the our climate and humans.
every single country to exist committed atrocities, none are better then others, it looks at countries in todays world and how they treat other countries
Then you have to ask yourself. How did these tiny little countries manage to do that? Sorry but Africans and Indians vastly outnumber Europeans - but couldn't or wouldn't stop the colonialists coming. Could it possibly be that colonialism was also a collaboration???
*September 2019:*
1. Finland
2. Netherlands
3. Ireland
4. Sweden
5. Germany
6. Denmark
7. Switzerland
8. Norway
9. France
10. Spain
NordProductions and that comment proves you are an inbred, degenerate, racist piece of garbage.
@@NordProductions That is not true in fact that is racist. You can't just judge white people as 'better'. If you look further in the actual website you'll see that there are non-white countries
Suomi mainittu!
@@lelezhang8378 No he is saying white people created better countries for the planet. You are being racist towards white people for saying they don't when the evidence is there.. you called him racist for being proud of his country but you wouldn't bat an eyelid if it was another race, see you are an anti white piece of trash
@@mattyy101 white people created good countries by exploiting non-white countries.
Even though there isn't such a thing as a 'white' country.
Literally cannot believe how relevant this TED Talk is 6 damned years later...
I thought it was a new video, especially when he was talking about a pandemic (previous one).
It really would be nice for people & their countries around the world to pay a bit more attention to advisors like this...
The world could be a FAR better place.
The US didn't make the top ten? Shocking.... ;) I loved this video, very interesting to see how perceptions shape the world view. I live in the US, but am ashamed that so many are selfish, but it is a lack of insight into true suffering. Things will always change. We will see.... hopefully for the better.
Brother Ziti Al Forno - Peace Be Upon Him If we consider how much 'turmoil' we have caused in the West, we can say that our good deeds are often obscured by corruption and coups
carpo719 this is scaled by contribution per gdp, if it did not account for gdp than you can count on the usa to be the number one contributer
I am a viking. West Coast Viking.
A country which elects Donald Trump needs to be ¹
Brother Ziti Al Forno - Peace Be Upon Him maybe start by fixing problems in your own country instead of printing money to have a bigger army just to start wars around the world.. if you actually think the usa is a better country than any first world european country youre bugging
move that microphone away from your scratchy beard!!!
I didn't hear it till you mentioned it 😂😭
I just wasted 18 min. FML
Shave like the people from Good Countries do.
Thanks for pointing that out, I'm not the only one.
...and now I can't unhear it.
Proud to be Irish. Our country isn't perfect, but I think we are great people and that is reflected by how we are received globally.
I’m Irish & I completely agree
Ireland does produce some really beautiful singers.
„National proud is the junk proud“ - Arthur Schopenhauer
The US romanticises Ireland.
Thank you, RUclips, for selecting this for me in 2020. Couldn’t be more relevant in these days. Why don’t we see these people more often in public debate..
There seems to be a lot of jealous comments here.... I love going to Ireland, food is tastier, people are friendlier, countryside and cities are cleaner than anywhere else I've been. You lot should be worrying about your corporate, mass producing countries like USA, UK etc. There are two types of people in the world.... The Irish and those who wish they were Irish. haha!!!!
renegademaster1011 brilliant
+renegademaster1011 go to sweden, basically the same, just 50% of our country is forest.
the sound of his beard rubbing against the mic is annoying the bejesus out of me!
Zaid Saadallah First thing I noticed....
Funny I didn't notice it at all..
Thank you for teaching me a new word. :)
Now I cant unhear it ffs
Well thanks, I decided to read your comment at 2 mins. So you know what was on my mind for the rest of the vid (!)
Lool, thanks!
I'm surprised that comment section is not full of arguments 😂
🙄😂✌
I'm not ( just to get one started)
There were augments on my first 5 lol
I'm not. This was a good, video.
This man for President 2020 anybody?
I'd rigg the vote to make him one
Lol
And behold... we bring you... Conor McGreggor.
DJ McGrath Ireland is 11th now though
Jack Randall who is now first 😭
Jack Randall Good eye man.
Ronan Lawlor
Sweden
goodcountry.org/index/overall-rankings
Sweden is bringing ruin to their own institutions by accepting bad behavior in the name of being well behaved. Whatever good they do will be erased in no time.
imagine donald trump doing a TED talk.....OMG...
Well unlike america elections I don't think ted allows idiots with ideologies as stupid as trumps
TinyRodent Buuuurn!
TinyRodent It is true, but I don't think people that are lazy and get money from the government that believe in a more fake person than Scientology, and is more shady than my closet is any better.
I'm sure he's the best at TED talks. No no no no no there's no one thats better at TED talks than Donald Trump. Trust me he knows TED talks.
Gabriel G True, they are both bitches
Aah yes I was waiting for the "we can change the world" comment
Not when you think like a worm. Good luck boomer.
Proud to be a Kenyan, though we have our own internal squabbles we are recognized internationally as a good country. And that's who we really are.
Great!
Yes, those European countries do contribute quite a lot. Don't you think?
A lot.. for war
Haha What does the USA do then not spend money on their military Holland for example gives 1.35% of it’s money out to the military.
The winner is 12:23
Lester Suggs thanks
Lester Suggs I suggest you watch the whole video
I watched the entire video. I'm just saving those thousands of viewers who were attracted to the video's title.
Lester Suggs
thank u dear
You have to remember that no country is perfect.
A Murphy would sure know that - someone even made a law about it :)
Good on you Ireland 🇮🇪 I’ll take 7th as well 🇬🇧
I'm surprised the answer is 6.8, instead of 42
Well...6*8-6 is 42
what is 6.8 all about ?
what did he really mean by that 6.8??confused???????
dipshipter lol!
dipshipter lol!
Nice to see an Englishman giving the Irish the credit they deserve for being so good and pouring a great pint of Guinness!
Nicholas Smith And taking those Apple taxes amiright?
tax haven lets gooo
@@ja_u lol what does tax have to do with the fact irelands pretty great lol ahh sure it’s grand you can have the apple jobs instead lol
This video aged like fine wine!
This is an idea that really could change the World.
Ashley Wilson what does that have to do with what he's saying? If you have nothing relevant to contribute why bother commenting?
Ashley Wilson I can point out that I don't appreciate people making irrelevant comments on my posts. You're lucky that I didn't just delete it.
I've cleaned up. Sorry about the mess.
Ashley Wilson No problem. :)
Has been tried 171 years ago by a guy named Karl Marx. Has failed everywhere it was tried, rivers of blood were shed by Hitler, Stalin, Mao under Marx utopia.
It starts with 'minority' being
bypassed, then persecuted, accused of being enemy of the people, then
jailed and tortured, then send to Concentration camps in Germany,
Gulags in USSR, then machine gunned over an open grave pits like Babi
Yar in Ukraine, Chlodomor, again in Ukraine in 1922 when 20
million starved to death after Bolsheviks took the seed grain away.
The only bigger mass murder has been conducted by Islam
since AD 632.