Dignity isn't a privilege. It's a worker's right | Abigail Disney
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What's the purpose of a company? In this bold talk, activist and filmmaker Abigail Disney imagines a world where companies have a moral obligation to place their workers above shareholders, calling on Disney (and all corporations) to offer respect, dignity and a living wage to everyone who works for them.
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I'm no Disney, but I had a priviliged up bringing. I can relate to the taught value of respecting people. Call it righteous and virtuesignaling, but not all well-off parents teach their children the importance of empathy and justice. My parents don't demand I should be a doctor etc, but God forbid if I were a bully. As long as I follow my concience and am an honest person, they are perfectly happy.
The proper name for that is Noblesse Oblige and it is lost to most rich folks. Most don't even remember what it's called.
Cool, thanks for sharing. Just a reminder, your *time* is more important than money
@@Zarozian I learned that phrase from national honor society in high school :)
Wow, what an amazing talk! That fact about 73% of the people who work at Disney struggling to put food on the table was not surprising, but my gosh, was it visceral and really drove the whole point home. I love how she openly acknowledges her critics arguments against her so that they can't just dismiss her as some idealistic fairy with no sense of what all the issues at play are. She's is more than aware of all aspects of the problem and I just wish she had more sway in holding Disney accountable and being part of the change that needs to happen to make this right. But I guess in her own way, she is, and kudos to her. Well done!
Who paid you?
Yet she is still a multi-millionaire today. I guess she isn’t ready to give up her money for her ideals.
Why do you accept the bold faced lie that 73% of Disney employees cannot feed themselves?
Jimmy was always a hero to me. I was born in 1957 and spent many years with no access to tv into the 70's. Maybe I could see tv at a grandparents tv twice a month.
It's weird to see "Disney" as an actual last name
Just like Firestone is an actual last name.
🤔🤷🏾♀️
As opposed to “Lima”, which is a bean.
@@freddobbs8558 in portuguese it means the same thing as "lime", as in the fruit 😅 What I means is that it ACTUALLY is a family's name, not just a company's name, and its a little weird, idk
@@freddobbs8558 fun fact
Lima means five in Indonesian and Malaysian.
If Walt Disney was the one who created the magic, then maybe Abigail Disney can revive it in time.
Highly doubtful.
Thank you Abigail, your words brought tears to my eyes and courage to my heart.
My family is at Disneyland Anaheim, today, with my first grandson, and a young nephew, experiencing the “Magic” for the first time, as the rest of our family has for the last 30 years.
You are right about everything.
The Trump experience has showcased everything you described as well as the self destructive “success” of corporate America.
It is time for us to grow past our country’s extended adolescence.
- An Army Veteran and Teacher ❤️🇺🇸
I think it’s been well-established that individuals can’t really do anything about climate change. It’s the massive corporations that NEED to do something in order to make an impact. No matter what country you are from, it seems the people are always being told that we need to ‘do more’ and ‘play our part’ when it would be a drop in the ocean if corporations do nothing.
Lol what are corporations gonna do stop making stuff that you keep buying? Install solar panels on all their facilities? Buy everyone Tesla’s? Individuals have the most important role to play. With out people being responsible you have nothing.
Eli & His Pole I mean I’m a socialist so😅 this would be a very long discussion
ThatOneGirl couldn’t agree more
ThatOneGirl Exactly! Literally a quick google search will show the impact that massive corporations have on the environment vs the average population. It’s astonishing. So like I said before anything we do is honestly like a drop in the ocean unfortunately
What’s your strategy for making corporations act more “responsible” and is it just the fact that they make up a larger proportion of total emissions? Won’t that always be the case? Big corporations contributing more pollutants than you and I?
I attended the Disney Leadership Excellence Program back in 1998 and appreciated what I learned about the Disney business practices and life. Dignity is integral.
keep politics out of businesses.
Workers of the world UNITE!!!! Fight for your rights!!! It's not a demand for privilege!! It's a demand to live a dignified life!!!!
You should go self-employed.
@@shlockofgod why do I smell capitalism from you??😂😂😂
@@justinthomasjacob595 what?
@@justinthomasjacob595 Because starting ventures into capitalism is the purest part of capitalism.
Capatalism isn't bad, until those established GATE OFF EVERYTHING AND BECOME HUGE CORPORATIONS.
Be better than that, sell your business after you are successful.
@@bravojr hmmm...true
I designate this as 'worthy of my time'.
Cliff P. Jaja 😂 that’s funny you designate
Bleepus Bloopus does not computus
The first step to having a community where people matter and workers are treated fairly is a minimum wage. A wage that's set at a level that allows a worker to meet all the I needs a few wants and some savings. Less than that and you may as well call the worker a slave.
Everyone should be able to buy a home at least.
If you make the price of labour more expensive, people will use less of it
Business is already automating their worksites and factories. I don't think having cheaper labor is going to stop that. Cheaper labor will just leaf to business forcing the price of labor lower
First sentence of the German Constitution:
“Human dignity is inviolable”
How times have changed.. back then working in Disneyland was not considered a gig
Dignity isn't a privilege. It's a -worker's- everybody's right......sorted
A while ago I read an article on the basic error inherent in the behaviour of all companies; they are, as Abigale said, run just for the benefit of the shareholders. But the shareholders are far from the only people involved.
If the term "shareholder" is exchanged for "stakeholder" it seems that a step can be taken to find a bit of balance. Of course the workers have a stake in the performance of a company they work for. So do those that buy it's products and services. It is quite usual to be in the interests of the buyers that the company succeed in order to maintain the product.
That change then does imply a role for a workers' representative on the board of directors. The change in terminology also includes purchasers. We are all purchasers of both goods and services like Disneyland, yet how few are the companies that respond to us even with respect! In that way Disneyland is better than most.
Including all stakeholders implies a bigger role for management to really listen to those that make and buy the product. It is no longer adequate to have a suggestion box in the factory, or for the simplistic "focus groups" approach to matching products to needs - and I have seen how badly those focus groups work anyway.
When a company asks me to fill in a feedback form associated with a new product purchase, I fill it in. As a person who was taught to design surveys, I have never seen one that would get a pass in any of the classes I took. I also have never received any acknowledgement that my product feedback has been read, let alone valued. So if the company that made the product does not value and respect me as a thinking buyer, should I feel that the workers in that company are worthy of respect? I myself do treat those I interact with with respect. But I have experienced many people who seem to have no respect for anyone they interact with, and that has to be addressed. Maybe by starting with companies expressing genuine interest in their customers.
This is of course not a universal criticism. Companies can be found with the full range of approaches to their workers, and clients. The ones I go back to are those that treat me as more than a walking credit card.
What made America good, why it's not so good anymore, and what caused the change.
Thank you for your insight Abigail. ^-^
She is right on. I love Disney because it was Disney not the greed its become.
“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
--John Wooden
I agree 100%.I wish Abigail was CEO of Disney. Maybe she would update the last act of Carrousel of Progress too
Excellent talk and topic. I hope one day, all companies will think more for their workers.
Hats off 🌷
No matter how much i adore disney and how i truly consider my self being raised by the wonderful ethics deisny creative team enlightened us with , and although i realize that the creative team is different than the business/sales one who is running disney land , but i simply can't ignore the complaints of a lot of hard working employees who reported working in disney land while they can't even pay rent and living in their cars, there is a hole documentary made of them, THAT IS NOT DIGNITY, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
pirotizing profit of the well to do share holders over the Working class to the degree that deny them digity living is a stupid short term vision economic strategy as those middle class majority working for the wealthy share holders are actually their main customers , and if those costomers can't afford basic dignified living then of course they wont splurge on luxuries.
to manage business owners greed and return stability to society profit should be caped by higher taxes ( who needs 20 million $ million if you can live with 5 million $ ) and so what if a huge American business lost a bit of profit if 10 American local small businesses got the chance to open creating a more secure stable local economy.
American citizens should be the shareholders in the US economy. Poverty should not exist in a free society with the kind of wealth that exists in the US. Police are paid to defend the extreme concentration of wealth in a few hands from being redistributed to the dispossessed masses.
Disney (cretor of Mickey Mouse) mistreated his animators, and even now Disney´s (company) business policies and disregard for employees rights all over the globe is shameful... Like someone said: "Doing good in the millions, while doing harm in the billions". This is hipocrisy on a whole new level.
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This is a good explanation as to why I hate the Disney Corporation and will not give a single penny to them.
I imagine a General Strike
Try telling that to the co worker jerk who restarted my depression
Abigail, I believe you. And I want that change you’re talking about. But it will never happen in your lifetime or mine. We are too greedy, selfish and entitled of a nation for it to ever happen.
Thank you!
Had no idea all this hinges on the battles between Disney’s World and Friedman’s world. But it’s obviously that they are in polar opposition and in there extremes
It has nothing to do with Disney vs. Milton Friedman. Friedman was a leading US economist who battled other economists in the 1960s and 70s to establish the primacy of the corporate shareholder. Friedman won the philosophical battle and then the laws and business education followed suit in teaching future business people the Friedman way.
I agree with the speaker.
If Ted has 18 million subscribers? How come they don't have many views on all of their videos????
click farms
They are about as worthless as the View.
@gridsleep what's a video zombie?????
@@patrickweigand3419 A zombie who watches videos.
This talk is historical.
Please don't close the TED channel in Russian
I love Disney, just not the corporate scumbags. Let's hope someone would accept my pilot...
“The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands in times of challenge and controversy.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A really powerful message. Thank you. May we revive the MAGIC as we come together as a collective, to cocreate the future we wish for ourselves.
Great title caught my eye.
So nice to hear. Now if more would listen.
Then have some, Abigail. Then have some.
This is my favorite ted talk i think. I rewatch this video all the time. She makes me feel at peace.
Imagine if the Disney corporation was converted into a worker coop...
ok
because we love Disney world
Wow someone from the Disney family.
Literally walking privilege.
@@bravojr Well, not like she had a choice to be born into a rich family. Besides, most rich folks lose critical thinking and problem solving ability because they become reliant on money to do both of those. Not to mention how almost all of them end up disconnected with your average human being, just like all our politicians here in the US. They're just incompetent rich guys cause only the rich can run for office.
@@Zarozian She does have a choice to be better than the means she comes from.
Instead we witness her bloviating on about virtues...
LOOK AT THE COMMENT SECTION AND TELL ME I AM WRONG.
@@bravojr Everyone else does the same thing. She could be doing something but she's probably doing this to share with the other CEOs and other rich folks.
@@Zarozian Publicaly... To do what, get all these people , all these people in the comments section to hate her?
To dislike, what is going on. To prove that this message of her's isn't worthy and make the other ceo's just laugh it off.
uh.... Optics must be Cloudy this day.
I wish Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and all CEOs would listen to this. In previous eras there was inequity but there was benevolence in the part of company owners, like Abigail’s grandfather. That has all been done away with and nowadays it is all about profit profit profit. The worker no longer counts - is not valued, an expendable commodity. It’s immoral for a CEO / owner to earn billions while his employees struggle to put food on the table. This is sheer greed and I don’t know how they can live with themselves. I can no longer vote along the lines I did when I was in my 20s and 30s. The corporate world has changed so much, for the worse. People are worse off and the gap between the poor and rich is growing. CEOs must adopt a more caring and equitable attitude to their workers. They must see them not for the golden egg that they produce but for the golden goose that they are. Everyones contribution to a company’s success should be rewarded. Thank you Abigail for highlighting this.
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Dignity isn't a right or a privilege. It's a state of mind.
Jiminy Cricket has been unjustly convicted and caged next to the Carrion River, because of Pinocchio.
I am fighting with all my might to help our children and Geppeto, Fairy Godmother.
But only you can make the humble wizard's wand magic.
🌐💝🙏
❤️❤️❤️❤️
#Swoozie ✨
Dignity is something you create for yourself. Nobody can give it to you. People can be mean. Since when in all of human history has that not been true? It has nothing to do with how people treat you or think of you. It has everything to do with how you treat yourself, and how you treat others, no matter your circumstances in life.
Some 2000 years ago, Epictetus was a slave. But because of how he lived his life, he was, and still is, held in as high regard as Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome.
Because the progress we've made since then, people have had the luxury to become soft and overly sensitive towards everything. People have been raised to believe that the world should be free of suffering, to externalize their problems, instead of being taught how free themselves of their own ignorance. People speak volumes of social progress, but fail to realize it is their own individual progress in life which creates it.
"Whatsoever misfortunes there are here in this world or in the next, they all have their root in Ignorance, and in the accumulation of longing and desire." -- Buddha
"Yes, keep on degrading yourself, your soul. But soon your chance at dignity will be gone. Everyone gets one life. Yours is almost used up, and instead of treating yourself with respect, you have entrusted your own happiness to the souls of others." - Marcus Aurelius
Good
You don’t say specifically what workers don’t make enough to put food on the table. Most of those jobs are for high school or college students. Painters and janitors are unskilled labor. Is this the same argument that says the adults working menial jobs at McDonalds should make enough to support a family? There are jobs that will only earn a minimum wage, and these type jobs aren’t intended to support an entire family.
That is EXACTLY what a minimum wage job is meant to do. It is the opportunity for unskilled labor workers to live and support themselves and their loved ones in the case higher education isn't an option or just not their interest. It's that while standard of living, rent, utilities, and bare minimums of necessities have steadily increased since the FUCKING 70s, the minimum wage has barely risen
i started my first job as a dishwasher in 2006 when minimum wage was $5.15/hour and felt lucky to be paid $6. In nearly 15 years, that rate has barely inched to $7.25 and that is the root of the problem
@@jloh3256 okay but if you make the price of labour more expensive, employers will use less of it. So sure people who make 7,25 a hour do have a tough life, but would you rather have them make $7,25 a hour or $0.00 a hour.
What do you think about balgramm ted ?!!
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life
I want to learn English, does this channel help?
No, this is for the spread of ideas, if you wanted to try to learn English try the mobile phone app “Duo Lingo”.
“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”
--John Wooden
@oxy 75 He's a character.
*mic drop*
@oxy 75 Oh, and if you are questioning how he got to the top.
Going from bankrupt up and back again takes knowing business. It's actually the proper cycle for business leaders to embrace that not many do.
Nobody starts, stops, and sets a new path anymore which leads to so many closed cells in business.
Trump has, leading to open doors...
BUuuuuut people like you likely don't care about any of this because Truth Hurts.
Death is the great leveler. My Dad enjoyed his beer and died penniless. My Mum watched her money with care and died with money in the bank. They are both buried in the same hole awaiting the same resurrection of Jesus Christ.
We all answer to Jehovah God for how we live and treat others.
Love Gray
Dignity is something you yourself build. It's not given. You can't sit around expect to just have dignity. You have to do things that you deem dignified and hold yourself to that standard. If you are unhappy. Then you are not holding yourself to a standard you deem worthy. Raise your standard of self and act accordingly.
Not a living wage issue, this a financial choice issue.
Wealth =/= salary
Self control and living within your means solves a lot of this inequality bellyaching.
This whole speech just doesn't sit right with me. We all know that workers should be respected and treated fairly, we all know that the system is broken. Why would you say the obvious thing to the people who are working at these jobs? Say it at bord meetings, to the executives and the people who can actually make a change.
Disney is a deeply flawed company with a lot of questionable things they did in the past. But I do believe they can strive to be better, more diverse, more inclusive and fair. It takes work, mainly work from the inside out. Preaching to the audience won't fix anything unfortunately
Interesting talk... raising wages doesn’t off set inflation.... ??? When we raise minimum wage, soon after the price of TP, bread & coffee goes up ⬆️ AND most of the “stuff” we think we can afford (those of us at that economic bottom) is being made in countries that support slave labor 😢
Inflation just means the money you use is worth less. Inflation happens when you print more money. Inflation is also what makes the minimal wage each year worth less and less. 40 years ago, 7$ an hour was fair - nowadays its not. The government can prevent these prices to go up, making laws and regulations - no one will buy coffee that's suddenly doubled its price and these companies know it. It's the governments fault for not rising minimal wages with inflation.
@@lavourse If minimum wage is raised, inflation will shortly follow. Simple economics: Increase demand, static supply = increased cost.
Disney has lost its magic to wokeness and corporate greed. This rich chick should put her money where her mouth is if she’s really sincere about caring about Disney employees
pirotizing profit of the well to do share holders over the Working class to the degree that deny them digity living is a stupid short term vision economic strategy as those middle class majority working for the wealthy share holders are actually their main customers , and if those costomers can't afford basic dignified living then of course they wont splurge on luxuries.
to manage business owners greed and return stability to society profit should be caped by higher taxes ( who needs 20 million $ million if you can live with 5 million $ ) and so what if a huge American business lost a bit of profit if 10 American local small businesses got the chance to open creating a more secure stable local economy.
HUMAN right. Fixed it for you.
Human wrong.
Fixed everything forever.
Dignity should not be given but earned by yourself.
Dignity IS a fundamental human right, you moron. You don't "deserve" dignity, you already have it because you're a human being. What you need is for that dignity to be acknowledged by other human beings, something you can't obviously do.
Nowadays dignity is a very blurred word. Dignity is the state of being worthy of something. You have to earn it, no one can just give it to you. It's a right when you are worthy of it. If you don't deserve it, a union can't give you dignity, or if it DOES, it gives you a fake, unearned dignity.
The audio is trash. I cant hear/understand this woman's very important message.
Why didnt someone clean up the audio before posting it? Wheres the quality assurance?
Did you even watch what you posted to make sure it was working properly?
It's only ur audio dude.. Coz mine and maybe others are good. her voice is clearly enough. check all the comment,Only u complain about the audio😊
So can I make and sell Mickey Mouse without Disney sueing me? Or no?
No, you cant even put a picture of Spiderman on your sons grave without Disney suing you. Disney and dignity, yeah right, I totally believe that.
She is going against her family, company and class. But you are too abused by life that you can’t hear because of your anger.
Cool yourself and try to listen again.
Андрей Поган so, that’s a “no”? Or a “not yet”
It's difficult to agree with anything this channel publishes when it's anti-free speech. stop censoring comments and then maybe we can talk.
Is she trying to make the room she’s In look like she’s not a billionaire
*climate change
Sorry, was the only criticism I could come up with
Please translate in Arabic
I don't think communism has been translated into Arabic yet.
Hê
True it's worker's right
Hearsay! Lol
OOO
Dignity stems from a person’s ability to adapt, overcome and succeed by making difficult choices. Dignity isn’t a right, it must be earned on a personal and social level. This isn’t yet self evident but it could be imo.
Maybe you should pay employees of Disneyland and Disneyworld a living wage instead of doing this weird Ted talk.
That's exactly what she's saying.
@@Laurelin70 saying is different than doing
She's the heiress to Disney? She looks like she lives in a trailer and manages a Dollar Store.
What a cruel,thing to say
Oh no! All the snowflakes are gonna melt! Quick everyone, call your elected officials, so they can come over to your house tonight and tuck you into bed! Make sure they check your rooms for monsters hiding in the closet, which makes sense because now that so many of you have come out of there, the monsters have lots of space to camp out.
Eu ridic gunoiul multor oameni,e bine cate odată să muncești neplătit,..
Dignity isn't a right.. It's when someone stands for something of a higher standard.
Dignity starts when you as a human first learn how to walk.
It only ends when you cannot carry your own life's spark by will alone.
I can't shake being told by someone who's basically the Walmart of entertainment, telling me about dignity.
I just watched Pinocchio... WOW what a coincidence
Just say “No” to socialism!
Don't say that too loud they will CENSOR YOU! CANCLE CANCLE CANCLECNECE
@gridsleep You are not a solution!
So basic workers rights are socialism now? 🙄
Lol dislikes be like "it's my American right to mentally abuse my coworkers!"
Abigail Disney has a net worth of $120,000,000. Put up or shut up.
I love
Hate !
^ symbolic duality.
Dignity is an intrinsic (coming from self) characteristic....so if you lack dignity, you have only yourself to blame.
What a hypocrite
HI
I do not want a Union job
@@atomixfang And get their pay cut to never be seen again... Because unions take money they don't give it back.
@@atomixfang so keep the right to work laws so I have that chance. Biden wants to take them away
@@GuitarZombie Right to work doesn't protect your rights to work. It protects the corporations choice over you.... I exist in one of those states they can shove it.
Maybe just change unions? They exist in germany too but you don't pay them?
@@bravojr Right to work laws...........
www.thebalancecareers.com/right-to-work-2071691
Yo
Hah we are all gonna die.
Derk Doys um I’m not so.....
@@sweexd8826 Hi there person of "insert color", we are not and I repeat not going to violence you.
How is your life?
bravojr oh lol I didn’t think of it like that lol, life pretty good tho, maybe a little stressful but good, you?
@@sweexd8826 Yeah, I aint go no job... Stress... eh.. I let it get to me, but then I realize how it doesn't matter to be stressed out.
Thanks though.
I mean, what can we do about any of this?
I don't know how I feel about this. Although I agree with a lot of what she says. It's just that it's coming out of the mouth of a VERY privileged person.
Jiminy Cricket was whispering in her earl
Stop FEELING and start THINKING. That's the first step. Don't worry about the background or demographics of the speaker; evaluate the principles of the argument.
There is nothing wrong with being a privileged person. A privileged person has as much right to speak out as an unprivileged person! She can’t help that she is.
It would be best if you just stayed out of politics you want to help people shed some of that cash flow you got stored up for the last few Generations
THE D A R K SIDE OF DISNEY
the R A P E side of disney.
3rd
(Slaps her off couch) get back to work!
*Audience doesn't laugh, and angry stares project out from a dimly lit room*
I love melting snowflakes...
*A sad clown wheels in from the left. He dies of depression on the spot.*
*It somehow raises the mood of the room which continues to stare at the woman preaching.*
They all cheer when the clown gets punched in the face..hypocrites