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

Prevodilac: Milenka Okuka Lektor: Mile Živković

I'd like to start with a simple question:

Želeo bih da počnem 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 neprijatno,

but take a look at the data.

ali pogledajte podatke.

The poor borrow more, save less,

Siromašni više pozajmljuju, manje štede,

smoke more, exercise less, drink more

više puše, manje vežbaju, više piju

and eat less healthfully.

i manje zdravo se hrane.

Why?

Zašto?

Well, the standard explanation

Pa, standardno objašnjenje

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

je jednom sumirala britanska premijerka, Margaret Tačer.

And she called poverty "a personality defect."

Nazvala je siromaštvo "manom ličnosti".

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

A lack of character, basically.

U suštini, nedostatkom karaktera.

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

Sad, siguran sam da je malo vas koji biste bili toliko bezobzirni.

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

Međutim, zamisao da nešto nije u redu sa siromašnima

is not restricted to Mrs. Thatcher.

nije svojstvena jedino gđi Tačer.

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

Neki od vas možda veruju da bi siromašni trebalo da odgovaraju

for their own mistakes.

za lične greške.

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

A drugi tvrde da bi trebalo da im pomognemo da donose bolje odluke.

But the underlying assumption is the same:

Ali u srži je ista pretpostavka:

there's something wrong with them.

nešto nije u redu s njima.

If we could just change them,

Kad bismo samo mogli da ih promenimo,

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

kad bismo mogli da ih naučimo kako da žive svoje živote,

if they would only listen.

kad bi samo slušali.

And to be honest,

I, da budem iskren,

this was what I thought for a long time.

ovako sam i ja dugo vremena razmišljao.

It was only a few years ago that I discovered

Pre tek 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,

Putovali su oko 13000 kilometara, sve do Indije,

for a fascinating study.

zbog fascinantnog istraživanja.

And it was an experiment with sugarcane farmers.

A radilo se o eksperimentu sa uzgajivačima šećerne trske.

You should know that these farmers collect about 60 percent

Trebalo bi da znate da ovi zemljoradnici prikupe oko 60 procenata

of their annual income all at once,

svog 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 deo godine relativno siromašni,

and rich the other.

a drugi deo godine su bogati.

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

Istraživači su tražili od njih da urade test inteligencije pre i posle žetve.

What they subsequently discovered completely blew my mind.

Ono što su kasnije otkrili, potpuno me je raspametilo.

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

Zemljoradnici su pre žetve imali značajno gore rezultate na testu.

The effects of living in poverty, it turns out,

Efekti života u siromaštvu, ispostavilo se,

correspond to losing 14 points of IQ.

odgovaraju gubitku 14 poena količnika inteligencije.

Now, to give you an idea,

Sad, da vam to slikovito objasnim,

that's comparable to losing a night's sleep

to je uporedivo s gubitkom noćnog sna

or the effects of alcoholism.

ili s efektima alkoholizma.

A few months later, I heard that Eldar Shafir,

Nekoliko meseci kasnije, čuo sam da Eldar Šafir,

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

profesor na Univerzitetu Prinston i jedan od autora ovog istraživanja,

was coming over to Holland, where I live.

dolazi u Holandiju, gde ja živim.

So we met up in Amsterdam

Pa smo se sreli u Amsterdamu

to talk about his revolutionary new theory of poverty.

kako bismo razgovarali o ovoj novoj, revolucionarnoj teoriji siromaštva.

And I can sum it up in just two words:

I mogu da je sumiram u dve reči:

scarcity mentality.

mentalitet oskudnosti.

It turns out that people behave differently

Ispostavlja se 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 bitno -

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 onaj osećaj,

when you've got too much to do,

kad 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 usredsređenost na trenutni nedostatak -

to the sandwich you've got to have now,

na sendvič koji morate odmah da dobijete,

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 da platite sutra.

So the long-term perspective goes out the window.

Te, dugoročna perspektiva nestaje s vidika.

You could compare it to a new computer

Možete to uporediti s novim kompjuterom

that's running 10 heavy programs at once.

na kom odjednom radi 10 zahtevnih programa.

It gets slower and slower, making errors.

Postaje sve sporiji i sporiji, pravi greške.

Eventually, it freezes --

Vremenom se zamrzne -

not because it's a bad computer,

ne zato što se radi o lošem kompjuteru,

but because it has too much to do at once.

već zato što ima previše toga da obavi odjednom.

The poor have the same problem.

Siromašni imaju isti problem.

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

Ne donose 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 kom bi bilo ko donosio glupe odluke.

So suddenly I understood

Te sam iznenada shvatio

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

zašto mnogi od naših programa protiv siromaštva ne funkcionišu.

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

Ulaganja u obrazovanje, na primer, često su potpuno nedelotvorna.

Poverty is not a lack of knowledge.

Siromaštvo nije nedostatak znanja.

A recent analysis of 201 studies

Skorašnja analiza 201 istraživanja

on the effectiveness of money-management training

o efikasnosti obuke raspolaganja novcem

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

je došla do zaključka da obuka nije imala nikakav efekat.

Now, don't get me wrong --

Nemojte me pogrešno razumeti -

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

ovo ne znači da siromašni ne nauče ništa -

they can come out wiser for sure.

mogu da budu mudriji, zasigurno.

But it's not enough.

Međutim, to nije dovoljno.

Or as Professor Shafir told me,

Ili, kako mi je profesor Šafir rekao:

"It's like teaching someone to swim

"To je kao da učite nekoga da pliva,

and then throwing them in a stormy sea."

a onda ga bacite u olujno more."

I still remember sitting there,

I dalje pamtim kako sam sedeo tu,

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 da shvatimo decenijama ranije.

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

Mislim, ovim psiholozima nisu trebali nekakvi komplikovani skeneri za mozak;

they only had to measure the farmer's IQ,

dovoljno je bilo da izmere IQ zemljoradnika,

and IQ tests were invented more than 100 years ago.

a testovi inteligencije su izumljeni pre više od 100 godina.

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

Zapravo sam se setio da sam već čitao o psihologiji siromaštva.

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

Džordž Orvel, jedan od najvećih pisaca koji je ikad postojao,

experienced poverty firsthand in the 1920s.

iz prve ruke je iskusio siromaštvo 1920-ih.

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

"Suština siromaštva", pisao je,

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 imaju pravo da vam popuju

and pray over you

i da se mole za vas,

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

čim vam prihodi padnu ispod određenog nivoa."

Now, those words are every bit as resonant today.

Sad, svaka ova reč i danas ima odjek.

The big question is, of course:

Naravno, veliko pitanje glasi:

What can be done?

šta može da se uradi?

Modern economists have a few solutions up their sleeves.

Savremeni ekonomisti imaju nekoliko rešenja na raspolaganju.

We could help the poor with their paperwork

Možemo pomoći siromašnima s njihovom papirologijom

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

ili im poslati tekstualnu poruku da ih podsetimo da plate račune.

This type of solution is hugely popular with modern politicians,

Ovaj tip rešenja je uveliko popularan kod savremenih političara,

mostly because,

uglavnom jer,

well, they cost next to nothing.

pa, gotovo da ništa ne košta.

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

Mislim da su ova rešenja simbol našeg doba

in which we so often treat the symptoms,

u kojem se suviše često bavimo simptomima,

but ignore the underlying cause.

ali ignorišemo osnovni uzrok.

So I wonder:

Pa se pitam:

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

zašto prosto ne izmenimo kontekst u kom siromašni žive?

Or, going back to our computer analogy:

Ili, vraćajući se na kompjutersku analogiju:

Why keep tinkering around with the software

zašto da nastavimo da popravljamo softver

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

kad lako možemo da rešimo problem instaliranjem dodatne memorije?

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

U tom momentu, profesor Šafir je odgovorio praznim pogledom.

And after a few seconds, he said,

I nakon nekoliko sekundi je rekao:

"Oh, I get it.

"Ah, shvatam.

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

Misliš, želiš prosto da daš više novca siromašnima

to eradicate poverty.

kako bi iskorenio siromaštvo.

Uh, sure, that'd be great.

Ah, naravno, to bi bilo sjajno.

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

Ali plašim se da ta vrsta levičarske politike,

you've got in Amsterdam --

koju imate u Amsterdamu -

it doesn't exist in the States."

ne postoji u Americi."

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

Međutim, da li je ovo zaista staromodna, levičarska ideja?

I remembered reading about an old plan --

Sećam se da sam čitao o starom planu -

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

nečemu što su predložili neki vodeći istorijski mislioci.

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

Filozof Tomas Mor je to prvi put nagovestio u knjizi "Utopija",

more than 500 years ago.

pre više od 500 godina.

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

A zastupnici ovoga se protežu čitavim spektrom od levo do desno,

from the civil rights campaigner, Martin Luther King,

od učesnika kampanje za građanska prava, Martina Lutera Kinga,

to the economist Milton Friedman.

do ekonomiste Miltona Fridmana.

And it's an incredibly simple idea:

A radi se o neverovatno prostoj ideji:

basic income guarantee.

zagarantovanosti osnovnog prihoda.

What it is?

Šta je to?

Well, that's easy.

Pa, to je lako,

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

to je mesečni dohodak, dovoljan da vam plati osnovne potrebe:

food, shelter, education.

hranu, smeštaj, obrazovanje.

It's completely unconditional,

Krajnje je bezuslovno,

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

pa vam niko neće govoriti šta morate da radite za to

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

i niko vam neće govoriti šta da radite s tim.

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

Osnovini prihod nije usluga, već pravo.

There's absolutely no stigma attached.

Uz njega ne ide ljaga.

So as I learned about the true nature of poverty,

Pa, kako sam saznao za pravu prirodu siromaštva,

I couldn't stop wondering:

nisam mogao da prestanem da se pitam:

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

da li je ovo zamisao na koju smo svi čekali?

Could it really be that simple?

Da li zaista može da bude tako prosto?

And in the three years that followed,

A u tri godine koje su usledile,

I read everything I could find about basic income.

pročitao sam sve što sam mogao da nađem o osnovnom prihodu.

I researched the dozens of experiments

Istražio sam desetine eksperimenata

that have been conducted all over the globe,

koji su izvedeni širom sveta

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

that had done it -- had actually eradicated poverty.

koji je uspeo - koji je zapravo iskorenio siromaštvo.

But then ...

Ali onda...

nearly everyone forgot about it.

skoro svi su zaboravili na to.

This story starts in Dauphin, Canada.

Priča počinje u Dofinu, u Kanadi.

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

Svi u ovom gradiću su 1974. imali zagarantovan osnovni prihod,

ensuring that no one fell below the poverty line.

time je obezbeđeno da niko ne padne ispod crte siromaštva.

At the start of the experiment,

Na početku eksperimenta,

an army of researchers descended on the town.

armija 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 izglasana nova vlada,

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

a novi kanadski kabinet nije video mnogo koristi od skupog eksperimenta.

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

Pa, kad je postalo jasno da nije preostalo novca da se analiziraju rezultati,

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

istraživači su odlučili da spakuju dokumenta u nekih 2000 kutija.

Twenty-five years went by,

Prošlo je 25 godina,

and then Evelyn Forget, a Canadian professor,

a onda je Evelin Fordžet, kanadska profesorka,

found the records.

našla zabeleške.

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

Tokom tri godine je podvrgavala podatke svim tipovima statističke analize,

and no matter what she tried,

i šta god da isprobala,

the results were the same every time:

rezultati su svaki put bili isti:

the experiment had been a resounding success.

eksperiment je bio veoma uspešan.

Evelyn Forget discovered

Evelin Fordžet je otkrila

that the people in Dauphin had not only become richer

da ljudi u Dofinu, ne samo da su bili bogatiji,

but also smarter and healthier.

već i pametniji i zdraviji.

The school performance of kids improved substantially.

Uspeh dece u školama se značajno popravio.

The hospitalization rate decreased by as much as 8.5 percent.

Stopa hospitalizacije je umanjena za skoro 8,5 procenata.

Domestic violence incidents were down,

Incidenti kućnog nasilja su bili u padu,

as were mental health complaints.

kao i žalbe 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 koju su malo manje radili su bili nove majke i đaci -

who stayed in school longer.

koji su duže išli u školu.

Similar results have since been found

Slični rezultati su kasnije otkriveni

in countless other experiments around the globe,

u bezbroj drugih eksperimenata širom planete,

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, bi trebalo da prestanemo da se pravimo da najbolje znamo.

Trebalo bi da prestanemo da šaljemo cipele i igračke siromašnima,

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

to people we have never met.

ljudima koje nikad nismo upoznali.

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

I trebalo bi da se otarasimo ogromne industrije pokroviteljskih birokrata

when we could simply hand over their salaries

kad jednostavno možemo da njihove plate damo

to the poor they're supposed to help.

siromašnima, kojima oni tobož pomažu.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

Because, I mean, the great thing about money

Jer, mislim, sjajna stvar kod novca

is that people can use it to buy things they need

je što ljudi mogu njime da kupe stvari koje su im potrebne,

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

a ne stvari koje samoproklamovani stručnjaci misle da su im potrebne.

Just imagine how many brilliant scientists and entrepreneurs and writers,

Samo zamislite koliko briljantnih naučnika i preduzetnika i pisaca,

like George Orwell,

poput Džordža Orvela,

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.

kad bismo se otarasili siromaštva jednom za svagda.

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

Verujem da će osnovni prihod ljudima delovati poput rizičnog kapitala.

And we can't afford not to do it,

Ali ne možemo priuštiti da ga ne usvojimo

because poverty is hugely expensive.

jer je siromaštvo veoma skupo.

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

Samo pogledajte troškove dečjeg siromaštva u SAD-u, na primer.

It's estimated at 500 billion dollars each year,

Procenjuje se na 500 milijardi dolara godišnje,

u vidu većih troškova zdravstvene nege, većih stopa ispisivanja iz škole

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

and more crime.

i više kriminala.

Now, this is an incredible waste of human potential.

Sad, ovo je neverovatno traćenje ljudskog potencijala.

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

Ali razgovarajmo o onome što bode oči.

How could we ever afford a basic income guarantee?

Kako uopšte možemo da priuštimo zagarantovan 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 Dofinu su ga finansirali putem negativnog poreza na prihod.

This means that your income is topped up

Ovo znači da vam se prihod dopunjava

as soon as you fall below the poverty line.

čim padnete ispod granice siromaštva.

And in that scenario,

A u ovom scenariju,

according to our economists' best estimates,

prema procenama naših najboljih ekonomista,

for a net cost of 175 billion --

za neto trošak od 175 milijardi -

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

to je četvrtina ulaganja u vojsku SAD-a, jedan procenat BDP-a -

you could lift all impoverished Americans above the poverty line.

mogli biste da izdignete sve osiromašene Amerikance iznad granice siromaštva.

You could actually eradicate poverty.

Mogli biste zapravo da iskorenite siromaštvo.

Now, that should be our goal.

E, to bi trebalo da nam bude cilj.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

The time for small thoughts and little nudges is past.

Prošlo je vreme za koještarije i sitne pomake.

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

Zaista verujem da je došlo vreme za radikalno nove ideje,

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

a osnovni prihod je mnogo više od tek još jednog zakonskog akta.

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

Takođe se radi o potpuno novoj zamisli toga šta je posao.

And in that sense,

A u tom smislu,

it will not only free the poor,

neće samo osloboditi siromašne,

but also the rest of us.

već i nas ostale.

Nowadays, millions of people feel

Trenutno, milioni ljudi osećaju

that their jobs have little meaning or significance.

da njihovi poslovi nemaju mnogo smisla, niti značaja.

A recent poll among 230,000 employees

Nedavna anketa među 230.000 zaposlenih

in 142 countries

u 142 države

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

je otkrila da svega 13 procenata 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 procenata britanskih radnika

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

ima posao za koji smatraju da je bespotreban.

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

Kao što Bred Pit kaže u "Borilačkom klubu":

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

"Prečesto radimo poslove koje mrzimo

da bismo mogli da kupimo gluposti koje nam ne trebaju."

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

Now, don't get me wrong --

Sad, da se razumemo -

I'm not talking about the teachers and the garbagemen

ne govorim ovde o nastavnicima i đubretarima

and the care workers here.

i negovateljima.

If they stopped working,

Kad bi oni prestali da rade,

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 sa odličnim biografijama

who earn their money doing ...

koji zarađuju baveći se...

strategic transactor peer-to-peer meetings

P2P sastancima strateških transaktora

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

dok mozgaju o vrednosti dodataka neorganizovanog koautorstva

in the network society.

u mrežnom društvu.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

Or something like that.

Ili nešto slično.

Just imagine again how much talent we're wasting,

Samo zamislite još jednom koliko talenata traćimo,

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

samo zato što govorimo deci da će morati da "zarađuju za život".

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

Ili se setite jadikovke matematičkog genija koji radi u Fejsubuku:

"The best minds of my generation

"Najbolji umovi moje generacije

are thinking about how to make people click ads."

razmišljaju kako da navedu ljude da klikću na reklame."

I'm a historian.

Ja sam istoričar.

And if history teaches us anything,

A ako nas istorija ičemu uči,

it is that things could be different.

to je da stvari mogu da budu drugačije.

There is nothing inevitable

Ništa nije neizbežno

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

kod toga kako smo trenutno osmislili društvo i ekonomiju.

Ideas can and do change the world.

Ideje mogu da promene, i menjaju svet.

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 kvo -

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 osećaju pesimistično

about a future of rising inequality,

zbog budućnosti rastuće nejednakosti,

xenophobia

ksenofobije

and climate change.

i klimatskih promena.

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

Ali nije dovoljno znati protiv čega smo.

We also need to be for something.

Takođe moramo da budemo za nešto.

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

Martin Luter King nije rekao: "Imam noćnu moru."

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

He had a dream.

Imao je san.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)

So ...

Dakle...

here's my dream:

evo mog sna:

I believe in a future

verujem u budućnost

where the value of your work is not determined

u kojoj vrednost vašeg rada neće određivati

by the size of your paycheck,

veličina vaše plate,

but by the amount of happiness you spread

već količina sreće koju širite

and the amount of meaning you give.

i količina smisla kojeg pružate.

I believe in a future

Verujem 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 svrsishodan život.

I believe in a future

Verujem 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.

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

Imamo istraživanja, imamo dokaze

and we've got the means.

i imamo sredstva.

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

Sad, više od 500 godina nakon što je Tomas Mor pisao o osnovnom prihodu

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

i 100 godina nakon što je Džordž Orvel otkrio pravu prirodu siromaštva,

we all need to change our worldview,

svi moramo da promenimo pogled na svet

because poverty is not a lack of character.

jer siromaštvo nije karakterni nedostatak.

Poverty is a lack of cash.

Siromaštvo je nedostatak novca.

Thank you.

Hvala vam.

(Applause)

(Aplauz)