You're richer than you realise
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- Most of us don't really know how rich we are compared to the rest of the world, so let's find out together - and explore some other surprising facts along the way.
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📕 CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:49 - How rich are these average Londoners?
00:02:54 - Why don't we know how rich we really are?
00:06:51 - How much does it cost to save a life?
00:10:00 - How your giving could be the best thing you ever do
00:10:50 - Some charities are better than others
00:12:57 - Can ordinary people make a difference?
👫 CREDITS:
Directed and edited by: Suzy Shepard
Host and narrator: Grace Adams
Additional sound editing by: Rob Howe
Thanks to Julian Jamison and Habiba Banu for being interviewed!
And thanks to all those who stopped in Burgess Park! 
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I like to think of donating as whether I would switch to a job where I have a 10% smaller salary but I save a life every year - a no-brainer in my opinion!
Amazing video, great work!
Great video! Going straight into my ethics courses!
That's amazing! That's high praise!
I remember when I first filled in the "How rich am I" calculator, I was surprised that even as a (relatively poor) college student in Europe, I was already in the richest 10% globally and once I started working I quickly made it to the richest 3%.
It's empowering to know how much my donations can do for others overseas :)
It really is surprising - and wonderful - how much we can do to help others!
Sam Harris did a podcast on this and brought up a really good point; the impact of charity is disproportionally greater when we use logic (the information gathered in studies) over emotion (the feeling we get when we see the person we're helping in front of us)
This is a great video! 💛
Thanks so much Alicia!
I think this is the best video Giving What We Can has ever made, and so proud and excited to share it with everyone I know :) - great job Grace!!!!!
Thanks Michael! Proud to make content our team is excited to share!
Totally agree! The production value on this one was amazing, and I especially enjoyed the natural / not-forced vibe. Well-done Grace!
“We should burn up a star in order to save someone's life." I love this quote. It really hits home the difference between the cost to save a life and the VALUE of a life. So inspiring.
This video is really really good! Best explanation of the topic I've ever seen/heard so far, by far. The concept, the filming, the editing, the music... Love it. Everyone who worked on it should feel very proud! 😊
Thanks so much, Jeroen! I think Suzy, who directed and edited this video did an amazing job!
@@GivingWhatWeCanCommunity Tell Suzy she did a fantastic job!! I had kinda given up on the idea that you could make effective giving engaging/interesting on RUclips, but she proved me wrong. It's very inspiring.
This video made me tear up. Thank you Giving What We Can!
Makes me proud to be 10% pledger :)
This is the best video I’ve seen about effective giving ever! Good job!
Such a great video! Well done GWWC team!!
In the first half where you have the surprised reactions from people learning they are in the top 1% it is understandable for them to react like this and I agree even after being a member for a long time it still is just hard to get your head around. Maybe an idea for a future video where you could maybe show some kind of illustration of a typical life of someone in the top 25%, top 50% and top 75% just to help everyone visualise it all.
Absolutely loved this video! 😍 It's so well done and truly inspiring. Great job!
Moving, engaging, fun, insightful video. Outstanding interviewing; outstanding editing. A work of art! Thank you.
Superb video - very insightful and we need more people to understand they can afford to give more to good causes!
Thanks Robyn for your support!!
Thanks! We need more videos like this!
Superb video! Can't wait to start my first "proper" job next year and start saving some lives!
this is fantastic, thanks so much for doing this
Awesome video, really inspiring and eye-opening!
Extremely well done! Excited to see what you make next
Awesome, thanks for making this. Glad to see you go through all of the steps of reasoning here. There's a lot to explain here and it can be really tough to get through all of this if I'm talking to some random person at a party for example.
Amazing video!! So well made
Thanks a ton!
Great video overall. And a really great idea to include the statistical value of life in developed nations!
Hell ya! People helping people!
I love this! ❤ it’s all the things that motivated me to pledge summarised up together :)
Best explanation video on donation and thank you for giving us hope for better world😊🌎
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This is such an inspiring video!
Love that you found it inspiring!
Fantastic video, well done.
this is really inspiring!
How would I go about searching for an ethical/trustworthy charity?
Great question! We have a list of recommendations which you can see here: www.givingwhatwecan.org/best-charities-to-donate-to-2024 Here's also an article about how to try and find great charities yourself: www.givingwhatwecan.org/choosing-a-charity
Fantastic video!
excellent content 10/10
This really seems directed more at middle class people who already have all of their needs met instead of "everyone"
I'm in the top ~20% globally with my ~$10k yearly income bur if I start giving to charity, I won't be able to afford my own cost of living. So who does that really help?
Just seems strange to put the onus of charity on to school teachers and old people in wheelchairs when billionaires still exist.
We definitely think that those who have more, should give more - especially billionaires! And that people should only give what they are comfortable to give - but it remains true that many people are much richer than they think, and that even small amounts directed to high impact charities can do an enormous amount of good!
We don’t think that everyone we spoke to in this video should definitely be giving - that’s for them to decide - but we did want to include people across the spectrum to drive home the point that most people are richer than they think if they live in a rich country like England!
Well said@@GivingWhatWeCanCommunity
To me, charity isn't an onus, but an opportunity. Definitely make sure your needs are covered first. But to me, it's amazing that no matter what happens with the upper echelons of society, I don't need them in order to make an impact myself :)
I think the name of the project drives home the message: you should give what you can! If your living situation doesn't allow you to, then definitely prioritize your living situation. But if you're in a position to donate, even if it's a little bit, as many people in developed countries are, then consider doing so!
Everyone should give as much as they can while still being happy about it. If you suffer greatly from the costs of your donations, then please don't do it. Even on a more rational level, you probably wouldn't be able to do it for a long time. So the sum of your donations would be lower if you force yourself instead of picking an amount you are comfortable with. Trial pledges help to stick to the ball and if you earn more you can raise the percentage. With billionaires donating up to > 99 % of their income, but this would be a discussion for a different time.
Amazing video!
Really inspiring! :))
So happy you found it inspiring!
This is a wonderful video!
Great video!
I feel like this video does a great job of boiling down some of the most important arguments/ideas around effective giving in a very approachable way. However, since we are talking about a 15 minute youtube video it is obviously taking out some of the nuances behind these very complicated topics. In conversation with others (non-EAs) I realized that these simplifications are strongly triggering some internal defense mechanisms against the position advertised.
I do not really have a solution to this. You cannot really react to possible counterarguments like "Well, you are not solving the underlying problems of poverty and missing (medical) infrastructure therefore not really eliminating the root of the problem" while keeping it at a quite snappy 15 minute video.
The best solution I could come up with was utilizing this video as an opener to follow up with additional material and discussions once an initial interest was sparked.
Quite moving
Cool video.
Amazing
Thanks Danny!
What an awesome, educational video!
As said in the video, it's surprising how comparatively rich many of us in the western world are and just how far our money can go
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Wow great job. It is sometimes hard to remember how strange this all seems to someone encountering it for the first time when many of us have been steeped in these ideas and social circles for a while now. A good reminder how powerful and transmissible these ideas are.
Thanks Oscar! I think a really important part of getting these ideas across is meeting people where they're at!
Yay love it!
Thank you!
Love this!! 😍
Glad you're a fan, Lucas!!
You can't just go by just how much a person makes per year, but need to include the cost of living for that person. For those that live in rich countries, their day to day necessities can be very expensive compared to those that live in poor countries. For example a person in a rich country sees his automobile (which costs on average $50k) as a transport necessity, while for a person in a poor country it is a $50 bike or $500 moped or a 50 cents bus ticket. That automobile weighs 4000 lbs (just to move 200 lbs) and sits unused 23 hours per day - quite an inefficient use of resources. Given more money, the rich find inefficient ways to spend it and don't feel so rich. Housing in the rich world can be very expensive too. For example a typical home where I live costs $1M. Those is not because we live in mansions, but because the automobile enabled urban sprawl and when we ran out of space to build, but demand surpassed supply, home price skyrocketed. this is our inefficient use of land. I live in a rich country but am very frugal and efficient, so I actually feel richer than many people who earn more, but use it all up and don't have savings. By the way, my intention is not to spend my savings on myself, but to give it away to environmental causes.
Our How Rich Am I? Calculator is adjusted for Purchasing Power Parity which helps account for these differences in how much goods and services cost in different countries!
Here’s a page on PPP: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity
Hope that makes sense! We’ve already taken these points into consideration!
And it’s great that you’re supporting environmental causes!
I think it's certainly true that there are a lot of people with personal and financial circumstances where it is harder to give, even if they may appear richer on paper. I don't think anyone should be shamed into giving just because they're in the global X%, but I think the message we need to spread is that there are ways in which many of us can make big impacts with relatively small sacrifices. It's up to people what they want to do with that information, but I think this can be empowering rather than daunting!
@@rewindoflow The rich became rich because of industrialization, the consequence which damages the environment. However they don't pay for this "negative externality". Instead of appealing to altruism, we need to put a price on damage to the environment and use the proceeds to help those in countries that did not industrialize but are harmed by it.
@@gr8bkset-524 Social change, personal responsibility and system change can go hand in hand and don't have to stand against each other. I think GWWC is one pillar in making the world a better place. Put your money where your mouth is, and don't forget to be active in politics & society. I think there are great benefits in mobilisation and learning about the most pressing problems of the world.
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