Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash | Rutger Bregman

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I'd like to start with a simple question:

Želio bih započeti jednostavnim pitanjem:

Why do the poor make so many poor decisions?

Zašto siromašni donose toliko loših odluka?

I know it's a harsh question,

Znam da je pitanje malo grubo,

but take a look at the data.

ali pogledajte podatke.

The poor borrow more, save less,

Siromašni više posuđuju, manje štede,

smoke more, exercise less, drink more

više puše, manje vježbaju, više piju

and eat less healthfully.

i manje zdravo se hrane.

Why?

Zašto?

Well, the standard explanation

Pa, uobičajeno objašnjenje

was once summed up by the British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.

jednom je sažela bivša britanska premijerka, Margaret Thatcher.

And she called poverty "a personality defect."

Nazvala je siromaštvo "manom ličnosti."

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

A lack of character, basically.

U osnovi, nedostatkom karaktera.

Now, I'm sure not many of you would be so blunt.

Siguran sam da je malo vas koji biste bili toliko izravni.

But the idea that there's something wrong with the poor themselves

No, zamisao da nešto nije u redu sa siromašnima

is not restricted to Mrs. Thatcher.

nije svojstvena samo gđi. Thatcher.

Some of you may believe that the poor should be held responsible

Neki od vas možda vjeruju da bi siromašni trebali biti odgovorni

for their own mistakes.

za vlastite greške.

And others may argue that we should help them to make better decisions.

A drugi tvrde da bismo im trebali pomoći da donose bolje odluke.

But the underlying assumption is the same:

No, u biti je pretpostavka ista:

there's something wrong with them.

nešto s njima nije u redu.

If we could just change them,

Kad bismo ih samo mogli promijeniti,

if we could just teach them how to live their lives,

kad bismo ih samo mogli naučiti kako da žive svoje živote,

if they would only listen.

kada bi samo slušali.

And to be honest,

I da budem iskren,

this was what I thought for a long time.

ovako sam i ja razmišljao vrlo dugo.

It was only a few years ago that I discovered

Prije samo nekoliko godina sam otkrio

that everything I thought I knew about poverty was wrong.

da je sve što sam mislio da znam o siromaštvu -- pogrešno.

It all started when I accidentally stumbled upon a paper

Sve je počelo kad sam slučajno nabasao na stručni rad

by a few American psychologists.

nekoliko američkih psihologa.

They had traveled 8,000 miles, all the way to India,

Proputovali su čak 13.000 kilometara, sve do Indije,

for a fascinating study.

zbog fascinantnog istraživanja.

And it was an experiment with sugarcane farmers.

A radilo se o eksperimentu s uzgajivačima šećerne trske.

You should know that these farmers collect about 60 percent

Trebali biste znati da ovi zemljoradnici prikupe oko 60%

of their annual income all at once,

svog ukupnog godišnjeg prihoda odjednom,

right after the harvest.

odmah nakon žetve.

This means that they're relatively poor one part of the year

Ovo znači da su jedan dio godine relativno siromašni,

and rich the other.

a drugi dio godine bogati.

The researchers asked them to do an IQ test before and after the harvest.

Istraživači su tražili od njih da ispune test inteligencije prije i poslije žetve.

What they subsequently discovered completely blew my mind.

Ono što su zatim otkrili, potpuno me raspametilo.

The farmers scored much worse on the test before the harvest.

Zemljoradnici su prije žetve imali mnogo slabije rezultate na testu.

The effects of living in poverty, it turns out,

Učinci života u siromaštvu, ispostavilo se,

correspond to losing 14 points of IQ.

odgovaraju gubitku 14 bodova kvocijenta inteligencije.

Now, to give you an idea,

Da budem slikovit,

that's comparable to losing a night's sleep

to je usporedivo s gubitkom noćnog sna,

or the effects of alcoholism.

ili s učincima alkoholizma.

A few months later, I heard that Eldar Shafir,

Nekoliko mjeseci kasnije, čuo sam da Eldar Shafir,

a professor at Princeton University and one of the authors of this study,

profesor na Sveučilištu Princeton, jedan od autora ovog istraživanja,

was coming over to Holland, where I live.

dolazi u Nizozemsku, gdje ja živim.

So we met up in Amsterdam

Sreli smo se u Amsterdamu

to talk about his revolutionary new theory of poverty.

kako bismo razgovarali o njegovoj novoj, revolucionarnoj teoriji siromaštva.

And I can sum it up in just two words:

I mogu je sažeti u dvije riječi:

scarcity mentality.

mentalitet oskudice.

It turns out that people behave differently

Ispada da se ljudi različito ponašaju

when they perceive a thing to be scarce.

kada smatraju za nešto da je oskudno.

And what that thing is doesn't much matter --

A o čemu se radi, nije naročito važno,

whether it's not enough time, money or food.

bilo da nemaju dovoljno vremena, novca ili hrane.

You all know this feeling,

Svima vam je poznat taj osjećaj,

when you've got too much to do,

kada imate previše obaveza,

or when you've put off breaking for lunch

ili kada odlažete pauzu za ručak

and your blood sugar takes a dive.

i šećer u krvi vam padne.

This narrows your focus to your immediate lack --

Ovo vam sužava fokus na trenutni nedostatak,

to the sandwich you've got to have now,

na sendvič koji morate dobiti odmah,

the meeting that's starting in five minutes

na sastanak koji počinje za pet minuta,

or the bills that have to be paid tomorrow.

ili račune koje morate sutra platiti.

So the long-term perspective goes out the window.

I tako dugoročna perspektiva nestaje s vidika.

You could compare it to a new computer

Možete to usporediti s novim računalom,

that's running 10 heavy programs at once.

na kojem odjednom radi deset zahtjevnih programa.

It gets slower and slower, making errors.

Postaje sve sporiji, čineći greške.

Eventually, it freezes --

Naposlijetku se zamrzne,

not because it's a bad computer,

ne zato što je računalo loše,

but because it has too much to do at once.

već zato što ima previše toga za obaviti odjednom.

The poor have the same problem.

Siromašni imaju isti problem.

They're not making dumb decisions because they are dumb,

Ne donose oni glupe odluke zato što su glupi,

but because they're living in a context

već zato što žive u kontekstu,

in which anyone would make dumb decisions.

u kojem bi bilo tko donosio glupe odluke.

So suddenly I understood

I iznenada sam shvatio

why so many of our anti-poverty programs don't work.

zašto toliko mnogo naših programa protiv siromaštva ne funkcionira.

Investments in education, for example, are often completely ineffective.

Ulaganja u obrazovanje, na primjer, često su potpuno nedjelotvorna.

Poverty is not a lack of knowledge.

Siromaštvo nije nedostatak znanja.

A recent analysis of 201 studies

Nedavna analiza 201 istraživanja

on the effectiveness of money-management training

o učincima obuke upravljanja novcem,

came to the conclusion that it has almost no effect at all.

došla je do zaključka, da obuka nije imala skoro nikakav učinak.

Now, don't get me wrong --

Nemojte me pogrešno shvatiti,

this is not to say the poor don't learn anything --

to ne znači da siromašni ništa ne nauče,

they can come out wiser for sure.

oni zasigurno mogu biti mudriji.

But it's not enough.

Ali to nije dovoljno.

Or as Professor Shafir told me,

Ili, kako mi je rekao profesor Shafir,

"It's like teaching someone to swim

"To je kao da nekoga učite plivati,

and then throwing them in a stormy sea."

a onda ga bacite u olujno more."

I still remember sitting there,

Još se sjećam kako sam sjedio tamo,

perplexed.

zbunjen.

And it struck me

A onda mi je sinulo

that we could have figured this all out decades ago.

da smo ovo mogli shvatiti desetljećima ranije.

I mean, these psychologists didn't need any complicated brain scans;

Ovi psiholozi nisu trebali nikakva složena skeniranja mozga;

samo su morali izmjeriti IQ zemljoradnika,

they only had to measure the farmer's IQ,

a testovi inteligencije su izumljeni prije više od 100 godina.

and IQ tests were invented more than 100 years ago.

Actually, I realized I had read about the psychology of poverty before.

Zapravo, shvatio sam da sam već čitao o psihologiji siromaštva.

George Orwell, one of the greatest writers who ever lived,

George Orwell, jedan od najvećih pisaca koji je ikada postojao,

experienced poverty firsthand in the 1920s.

iz prve ruke je iskusio siromaštvo 1920-ih.

"The essence of poverty," he wrote back then,

"Bit siromaštva", pisao je tada,

is that it "annihilates the future."

"je u tome što ono poništava budućnost."

And he marveled at, quote,

I čudio se, citiram:

"How people take it for granted they have the right to preach at you

"Kako ljudi uzimaju zdravo za gotovo, da vam mogu držati prodike

i moliti se za vas, čim vam prihodi padnu

and pray over you

as soon as your income falls below a certain level."

ispod određene razine."

Now, those words are every bit as resonant today.

Svaka ova riječ i danas ima odjeka.

The big question is, of course:

Naravno, veliko pitanje glasi:

What can be done?

Što se može učiniti?

Modern economists have a few solutions up their sleeves.

Suvremeni ekonomisti imaju nekoliko rješenja na raspolaganju.

We could help the poor with their paperwork

Možemo pomoći siromašnima s papirologijom,

or send them a text message to remind them to pay their bills.

ili im poslati tekstualnu poruku kao podsjetnik da plate račune.

This type of solution is hugely popular with modern politicians,

Ovaj tip rješenja je uveliko popularan kod suvremenih političara,

mostly because,

uglavnom stoga što

well, they cost next to nothing.

ne koštaju gotovo ništa.

These solutions are, I think, a symbol of this era

Mislim da su ova rješenja simbol našeg doba,

in which we so often treat the symptoms,

u kojem se toliko često bavimo simptomima,

but ignore the underlying cause.

a ignoriramo osnovni uzrok.

So I wonder:

Stoga se pitam:

Why don't we just change the context in which the poor live?

Zašto samo ne izmjenimo kontekst u kojem siromašni žive?

Or, going back to our computer analogy:

Ili, vraćajući se na računalnu analogiju:

Why keep tinkering around with the software

Zašto nastojimo popraviti softver,

when we can easily solve the problem by installing some extra memory instead?

kada problem možemo lako riješiti instaliranjem dodatne memorije?

At that point, Professor Shafir responded with a blank look.

U tom momentu, profesor Shafir je odgovorio praznim pogledom.

And after a few seconds, he said,

I nakon nekoliko sekundi je rekao:

"Oh, I get it.

"A, razumijem.

You mean you want to just hand out more money to the poor

Misliš, želiš jednostavno dati više novca siromašnima

to eradicate poverty.

kako bi iskorijenio siromaštvo.

Uh, sure, that'd be great.

Ah, naravno, to bi bilo sjajno.

But I'm afraid that brand of left-wing politics

Ali, bojim se da ta vrsta ljevičarske politike

you've got in Amsterdam --

koju imate u Amsterdamu,

it doesn't exist in the States."

ne postoji u SAD-u."

But is this really an old-fashioned, leftist idea?

Međutim, je li to zaista staromodna, ljevičarska ideja?

Sjetio sam se čitanja o nekom starom planu,

I remembered reading about an old plan --

nešto što su predložili neki od vodećih povijesnih mislioca.

something that has been proposed by some of history's leading thinkers.

The philosopher Thomas More first hinted at it in his book, "Utopia,"

Filozof Thomas More to je prvi puta nagovjestio u svojoj knjizi "Utopija",

more than 500 years ago.

prije više od 500 godina.

And its proponents have spanned the spectrum from the left to the right,

A zagovornici toga protežu se čitavim spektrom, od lijevog do desnog,

from the civil rights campaigner, Martin Luther King,

od borca za građanska prava, Martina Luthera Kinga,

to the economist Milton Friedman.

do ekonomista Miltona Friedmana.

And it's an incredibly simple idea:

A radi se o nevjerojatno jednostavnoj ideji:

basic income guarantee.

zajamčeni osnovni prihod.

What it is?

Što je to?

Well, that's easy.

Pa, to je lako.

It's a monthly grant, enough to pay for your basic needs:

To je mjesečni iznos, dovoljan da platite osnovno:

hranu, smještaj, obrazovanje.

food, shelter, education.

It's completely unconditional,

Posve je bezuvjetan

so no one's going to tell you what you have to do for it,

pa vam nitko neće govoriti što morate učiniti za to,

i nitko vam neće govoriti što da radite s tim.

and no one's going to tell you what you have to do with it.

The basic income is not a favor, but a right.

Osnovni prihod nije usluga, već pravo.

There's absolutely no stigma attached.

Uz njega ne ide nikakva stigma.

So as I learned about the true nature of poverty,

I tako saznavši za pravu prirodu siromaštva,

I couldn't stop wondering:

nisam mogao prestati pitati se:

Is this the idea we've all been waiting for?

Je li to zamisao na koju smo svi čekali?

Could it really be that simple?

Može li zaista biti tako jednostavno?

And in the three years that followed,

I u tri godine koje su uslijedile,

I read everything I could find about basic income.

pročitao sam sve što sam mogao naći o osnovnom prihodu.

I researched the dozens of experiments

Istražio sam na desetke eksperimenata,

that have been conducted all over the globe,

koji su izvedeni diljem svijeta

and it didn't take long before I stumbled upon a story of a town

i nije mi trebalo dugo da nabasam na priču o gradiću koji je uspio,

that had done it -- had actually eradicated poverty.

koji je zaista iskorijenio siromaštvo.

But then ...

Ali onda ...

nearly everyone forgot about it.

skoro svi su zaboravili na to.

This story starts in Dauphin, Canada.

Ova priča počinje u Dauphinu, u Kanadi.

In 1974, everybody in this small town was guaranteed a basic income,

1974. godine, svima u ovom gradiću bio je zajamčen osnovni prihod,

ensuring that no one fell below the poverty line.

osiguravši da nitko ne padne ispod granice siromaštva.

At the start of the experiment,

Na početku eksperimenta,

an army of researchers descended on the town.

vojska istraživača je stigla u grad.

For four years, all went well.

Četiri godine je sve išlo kako treba.

But then a new government was voted into power,

Ali onda je na vlast došla nova vlada

and the new Canadian cabinet saw little point to the expensive experiment.

i novi kanadski kabinet nije vidio mnogo smisla u skupom eksperimentu.

So when it became clear there was no money left to analyze the results,

I kada je postalo jasno da nije preostalo novca za analizu rezultata,

the researchers decided to pack their files away in some 2,000 boxes.

istraživači su odlučili zapakirati svoje dokumente u nekih 2.000 kutija.

Twenty-five years went by,

Prošlo je 25 godina,

and then Evelyn Forget, a Canadian professor,

a onda je Evelyn Forget, kanadska profesorica,

found the records.

našla zapise.

For three years, she subjected the data to all manner of statistical analysis,

Tijekom tri godine, podvrgavala je podatke svim tipovima statističke analize

and no matter what she tried,

i bez obzira što je isprobala,

the results were the same every time:

rezultati su svaki puta bili isti:

the experiment had been a resounding success.

eksperiment je bio nevjerojatno uspješan.

Evelyn Forget je otkrila

Evelyn Forget discovered

that the people in Dauphin had not only become richer

da su stanovnici Dauphina, ne samo postali bogatiji,

but also smarter and healthier.

već i pametniji te zdraviji.

The school performance of kids improved substantially.

Uspjeh djece u školama se značajno popravio.

The hospitalization rate decreased by as much as 8.5 percent.

Stopa hospitalizacije smanjila se za skoro 8,5%.

Domestic violence incidents were down,

Obiteljsko nasilje bilo je u padu,

as were mental health complaints.

kao i pritužbe na mentalno zdravlje.

And people didn't quit their jobs.

A ljudi nisu davali otkaz na poslu.

The only ones who worked a little less were new mothers and students --

Jedini koji su malo manje radili bili su novopečene majke i učenici,

who stayed in school longer.

koji su ostajali duže u školi.

Similar results have since been found

Slični rezultati su kasnije otkriveni

in countless other experiments around the globe,

u bezbroj drugih eksperimenata diljem svijeta,

from the US to India.

od SAD-a do Indije.

So ...

Dakle,

here's what I've learned.

evo šta sam naučio.

When it comes to poverty,

Kada se radi o siromaštvu,

we, the rich, should stop pretending we know best.

mi, bogati, trebali bismo prestati praviti se da najbolje znamo.

Trebali bismo prestati slati cipele i igračke siromašnima,

We should stop sending shoes and teddy bears to the poor,

to people we have never met.

ljudima koje nikada nismo upoznali.

And we should get rid of the vast industry of paternalistic bureaucrats

I trebali bismo se otarasiti ogromne količine pokroviteljskih birokrata,

when we could simply hand over their salaries

kada jednostavno možemo njihove plaće

dati siromašnima, kojima trebaju pomagati.

to the poor they're supposed to help.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

Because, I mean, the great thing about money

Jer, mislim, sjajna stvar kod novca

je što ljudi njime mogu kupiti ono što im stvarno treba,

is that people can use it to buy things they need

instead of things that self-appointed experts think they need.

umjesto onoga što samoprozvani "stručnjaci" misle da im treba.

Just imagine how many brilliant scientists and entrepreneurs and writers,

Zamislite samo koliko briljantnih znanstvenika, poduzetnika i pisaca,

like George Orwell,

poput Georgea Orwella,

are now withering away in scarcity.

trenutno vene u oskudici.

Imagine how much energy and talent we would unleash

Zamislite koliko energije i talenta bismo oslobodili,

if we got rid of poverty once and for all.

kada bismo se riješili siromaštva jednom i zauvijek.

I believe that a basic income would work like venture capital for the people.

Vjerujem da bi osnovni prihod bio poput rizičnog kapitala za ljude.

And we can't afford not to do it,

Ali ne možemo si dozvoliti da ga ne usvojimo,

because poverty is hugely expensive.

jer je siromaštvo užasno skupo.

Just look at the cost of child poverty in the US, for example.

Samo pogledajte, na primjer, troškove dječjeg siromaštva u SAD-u.

It's estimated at 500 billion dollars each year,

Procjenjuje se na 500 milijardi dolara godišnje,

u vidu viših troškova zdravstva, većih stopa ispisivanja iz škole

in terms of higher health care spending, higher dropout rates,

i više kriminala.

and more crime.

Now, this is an incredible waste of human potential.

To je nevjerojatno traćenje ljudskog potencijala.

But let's talk about the elephant in the room.

Ali razgovarajmo o onome što je ovdje očito.

How could we ever afford a basic income guarantee?

Kako bismo si uopće mogli priuštiti zajamčen osnovni prihod?

Well, it's actually a lot cheaper than you may think.

Pa, zapravo je mnogo jeftinije nego što biste pomislili.

What they did in Dauphin is finance it with a negative income tax.

U Dauphinu su ga financirali putem negativnog poreza na prihod.

This means that your income is topped up

To znači da vam se prihod nadoplaćuje

as soon as you fall below the poverty line.

čim padnete ispod granice siromaštva.

And in that scenario,

A u takvom scenariju,

according to our economists' best estimates,

prema najboljim procjenama naših ekonomista,

for a net cost of 175 billion --

za neto trošak od 175 milijardi,

a quarter of US military spending, one percent of GDP --

što je četvrtina troškova vojske SAD-a, ili 1% BDP-a,

you could lift all impoverished Americans above the poverty line.

mogli biste uzdignuti sve osiromašene Amerikance iznad granice siromaštva.

You could actually eradicate poverty.

Zapravo biste mogli iskorijeniti siromaštvo.

Now, that should be our goal.

To bi trebalo biti naš cilj.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

The time for small thoughts and little nudges is past.

Vrijeme za ograničene misli i male pomake je prošlo.

I really believe that the time has come for radical new ideas,

Zaista vjerujem da je došlo vrijeme za radikalno nove ideje,

and basic income is so much more than just another policy.

a osnovni prihod je mnogo više od samo još jedne uredbe zakona.

It is also a complete rethink of what work actually is.

Radi se i o potpuno novoj zamisli toga šta je zaista posao.

And in that sense,

I u tom smislu,

it will not only free the poor,

to neće samo osloboditi siromašne,

but also the rest of us.

već i nas ostale.

Nowadays, millions of people feel

Danas, milijuni ljudi osjećaju,

that their jobs have little meaning or significance.

da njihovi poslovi nisu od nekakvog smisla ili značaja.

A recent poll among 230,000 employees

Nedavna anketa među 230.000 zaposlenih

in 142 countries

u 142 zemlje,

found that only 13 percent of workers actually like their job.

otkrila je da svega 13% radnika zapravo voli svoj posao.

And another poll found that as much as 37 percent of British workers

A druga anketa je otkrila da gotovo 37% britanskih radnika

have a job that they think doesn't even need to exist.

ima posao za koji smatraju da ne treba ni postojati.

It's like Brad Pitt says in "Fight Club,"

Kao što je Brad Pitt rekao u "Klubu boraca",

"Too often we're working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need."

"Prečesto radimo poslove koje mrzimo, radi kupovanja gluposti koje ne trebamo."

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Now, don't get me wrong --

No, nemojte me krivo shvatiti,

I'm not talking about the teachers and the garbagemen

ovdje ne govorim o nastavnicima, čistačima

and the care workers here.

i njegovateljima.

If they stopped working,

Kada bi oni prestali raditi,

we'd be in trouble.

bili bismo u nevolji.

I'm talking about all those well-paid professionals with excellent résumés

Govorim o svim tim dobro plaćenim profesionalcima s odličnim životopisima,

who earn their money doing ...

koji zarađuju baveći se ...

strategic transactor peer-to-peer meetings

P2P sastancima strateških transaktora,

dok mozgaju o vrijednosti dodatka prekinute kokreacije

while brainstorming the value add-on of disruptive co-creation

u umreženom društvu.

in the network society.

(Smijeh)

(Laughter)

(Pljesak)

(Applause)

Or something like that.

Ili nešto poput toga.

Just imagine again how much talent we're wasting,

Samo zamislite još jednom koliko talenta bacamo u vjetar,

simply because we tell our kids they'll have to "earn a living."

samo zato što govorimo djeci da će morati "zarađivati za život."

Or think of what a math whiz working at Facebook lamented a few years ago:

Ili razmislite o izjavi matematičkog genija iz Facebook-a prije par godina:

"The best minds of my generation

"Najbolji umovi moje generacije

are thinking about how to make people click ads."

razmišljaju kako navesti ljude da klikaju na oglase."

I'm a historian.

Ja sam povjesničar.

And if history teaches us anything,

A ako nas povijest ičemu uči,

it is that things could be different.

to je da stvari mogu biti drugačije.

There is nothing inevitable

Ništa nije neizbježno

about the way we structured our society and economy right now.

oko toga kako smo trenutno postavili društvo i ekonomiju.

Ideas can and do change the world.

Ideje mogu promijeniti, i mijenjaju svijet.

And I think that especially in the past few years,

I mislim da je naročito u proteklih nekoliko godina

it has become abundantly clear

postalo i više nego jasno

that we cannot stick to the status quo --

da se ne možemo držati statusa quo,

that we need new ideas.

da su nam potrebne nove ideje.

I know that many of you may feel pessimistic

Znam da se mnogi od vas možda osjećaju pesimistično

about a future of rising inequality,

zbog budućnosti rastuće nejednakosti,

xenophobia

ksenofobije

and climate change.

i klimatskih promjena.

But it's not enough to know what we're against.

Ali nije dovoljno samo znati protiv čega smo.

Trebamo biti i za nešto.

We also need to be for something.

Martin Luther King didn't say, "I have a nightmare."

Martin Luther King nije rekao, "Imam noćnu moru."

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

He had a dream.

Imao je san.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

So ...

Dakle ...

here's my dream:

ovo je moj san:

I believe in a future

vjerujem u budućnost,

where the value of your work is not determined

u kojoj vrijednost vašeg rada nije određena

by the size of your paycheck,

visinom vaše plaće,

but by the amount of happiness you spread

već količinom sreće koju širite

and the amount of meaning you give.

i količinom smisla kojeg pružate.

I believe in a future

Vjerujem u budućnost,

where the point of education is not to prepare you for another useless job

u kojoj svrha obrazovanja nije u tome da vas pripremi za novi beskoristan posao,

but for a life well-lived.

već za život vrijedan življenja.

I believe in a future

Vjerujem u budućnost,

where an existence without poverty is not a privilege

u kojoj život bez siromaštva nije privilegija,

but a right we all deserve.

već pravo koje svi zaslužujemo.

So here we are.

Dakle, tu smo.

Here we are.

Tu smo.

Imamo istraživanja, imamo dokaze

We've got the research, we've got the evidence

and we've got the means.

i imamo sredstva.

Now, more than 500 years after Thomas More first wrote about a basic income,

Dakle, više od 500 godina nakon što je Thomas More prvi pisao o osnovnom prihodu

and 100 years after George Orwell discovered the true nature of poverty,

i 100 godina nakon što je George Orwell otkrio istinsku prirodu siromaštva,

we all need to change our worldview,

svi trebamo promijeniti svoj pogled na svijet,

because poverty is not a lack of character.

jer siromaštvo nije nedostatak karaktera.

Poverty is a lack of cash.

Siromaštvo je nedostatak novca.

Thank you.

Hvala.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)